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Psych
Exam 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Speciesism | prejudice or discrimination based on species |
| development psychologists | study changes over life span -physical -cognitive -moral -social |
| Prenatal Stages | Germinal Embryonic Fetal |
| Germinal Stage | -Sperm unites with egg -placenta & umbilical cord form -placenta connected to embryo by the umbilical cord |
| Embryonic Stage | -4th through 8th weeks -testosterone is secreted by rudimentary testes in male embryos, without hormone, embryo is female |
| Fetal Stage | -fetus further developes organs & systems that existed in rudimentary form in the embryonic stage |
| German Measles (rubella) | -Affects fetus's eyes, ears, & heart -Most common- deafness -Preventable by vaccination |
| Influences development after birth | Environment, attachment, culture |
| Premature infant study | -Tiffany Field -human touch has big benefits |
| Right of passage study | 6-15yrs old:less growth 2-6yrs old: no effect Under 2yrs old: increased growth |
| Harry Harlow Findings | -Preferred cloth mother -isolated monkey= severe disturbed -digestive issues with wire mother |
| Attachment | -babies need a secure base -separation anxiety -crucial for health & survival -two types: securely & insecurely attached |
| Occipital Lobe | Vision |
| Amygdala | stress and fear response |
| Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) | The use of radio waves and magnetic fields of the body to produce detailed images |
| Sensorimotor stage | -"here and now" -lack "object permanence" - "mental representation" |
| pre-operational stage | -construct representations of experience -can use symbols -egocentric -struggle with "conservation" |
| Concrete Operational | Logic but not abstract |
| Formal Operational | -hypothetical reasoning -if-then; either-or -meaning of life; right vs. wrong |
| Lev vygotsky | -social and cultural influences -scaffolding- structuring environment as if child has already learned something |
| zone of proximal development | receptive to learning skill but not yet successful |
| Pre-conventional Level | -Moral judgement is self-centered -stage 1: punishment- obedience orientation -Stage 2: instrumental- exchange orientation, costs and benefits |
| Conventional Level | -stage 3: good-child orientation -seeking approval of others -Stage 4: law and order orientation - conforming to norms |
| post conventional level | -stage 5- social-contract -obedience to accept laws -Stage 6: universal ethics -morality of individual sonscience |
| Central Nervous System | brain- command center, receives afferent (sonsory), sends efferent (motor) spinal cord |
| Hindbrain | breathing (medulla), motor learning and coordination(cerebellum arousal), sleep Lacks: emotion, capability for learning |
| Midbrain | -pathway for impulses -helps coordinate visual and auditory reflexes |
| Forebrain | most evolved -thalamus-recognition and relay of sensory impulse -hypothalamus- regulatory functions and basic drive -complex emotional responses -cognitive and memory functions -language -only in mammals |
| Frontal lobe | -motor control -speech control -forethought -initiative/purposeful movements -self-awaremess |
| parietal lobe | -sensations of our environment -sense of pain -spatial processing -survival |
| Temporal lobe | -auditory cortex -hippocampus and memory -emotions and aggression |
| Occipital Lobe | -vision -visionary perception -ability to focus |
| Hemispheres | -Joined by corpus callosum Left: controls right side of body, language, mathematic ability, processes info sequentially Right: controls left side of body, emotions, recognize faces, patterns, melodies, processes info globally |
| Somatic | Voluntary movements |
| Autonomic | involuntary movements |
| Neuron | receives, integrates, and transmits info to other neurons |
| dentrites | carry impulses TO the cell |
| Soma | Cell body, integrates info, absorbs nutrients |
| axon | carries impulses AWAY from cell body to other neurons |
| Neurotransmitters | chemical messenger binds to and stimulates other cells |
| Serotonin | sleep, appetite, pain, mood, exercise-increased levels |
| norepinephrine | arousal=increased memory |
| dopamine | voluntary movement pleasure learning |
| depression | abnormal levels of neurotransmitters |
| opioids | body-made compounds that blunt pain response endorphins |
| Hormones | -chemical messenger -promotes growth |
| Sensation | -gathering of info -detection of energy |
| perception | -understanding info -organize data into meaning ful patterns |
| sense receptors | detects stimulus |
| functional code (morse code) | cells firing |
| absolute threshold | smallest amount of energy a person can detect reliability |
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