Psychology Chapters 10-14
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- reasoning skills, knowledge of ones culture, ability to arrive at innovative solutions to problems
- intelligence
- studying intelligence on the product of intelligence, IQ scores
- psychometric approach
- able to create a=many solutions, creativity, able to think along many paths
- divergent thinking
- ability to apply logic and knowledge and narrow down the the possibilities
- convergent thinking
- knowledge of what strategies to apply, when to apply them and how to use them in new situations
- metacognition
- 5 ssubtests in the Weschler Scale that requires spatial ability and ability to manipulate material
- performance scale
- capacity to produce original solutions and novel compositions
- creativity
- howard gardner's theory that people are possessed 8-semi intelligences only 3 of which IQ tests measure
- multiple intelligences
- analytic, creative, and practical; robert sternberg
- triarchic theory
- letters get distorted/jumbled
- dyslexia
- difficulty understanding spoken language
- dysphasia
- problem writing
- dysgraphia
- basic power of reasoning and problem solving
- fluid intelligence
- specific knowledge gained through applying fluid intelligence; verbal comprehension and manipulation numbers
- crystallized intelligence
- frequency at which a particular score occurs
- norms
- involves computing correlations between large numbers of variables
- factor analysis
- reason of purpose for a behavior
- motive
- automatic, involuntary, unlearned behavior
- instinct
- general level of activation
- arousal
- behavior is goal directed
- incentive theory
- pattern of arousal during/after sexual activity
- sexual response cycle
- masculine hormones in the blood stream that regulate sexual motivation
- androgens
- problems with sex that involve sexual arousal, motivation, or orgasmic response
- sexual dysfunction
- explaining the cause of some event
- attribution
- when arousal from one experience carries on to an independent situation
- transferred excitation
- other people's facial expressions are guidelines of how to proceed
- social referencing
- an experience that is happening to the self
- emotion
- subsystem that influences protection, nourishment, and growth
- parasympathetic system
- the high need for achievement
- need achievement
- natural growth / change
- maturation
- cells from fathers sperm and mothers ovum that contain genetic info
- zygote
- developing individual from day 14 to 3rd month
- embryo
- dev. ind. from 3rd month - birth
- fetus
- harmful substances that cause birth defects
- teratogens
- children learns all the senses
- sensorimotor period
- learning stage where the child gains knowledge and asks you questions
- preoperational stage
- ability to recognize important properties of a substance
- conservation
- third stage; child learns to count, measure, add, subtract
- concrete operational period
- 4th stage; child is able to engage in hypothetical thinking
- formal operational period
- a problematic story; kohlberg
- dilemma
- onset of menstruation
- menarche
- sexually transmitted disease
- syphilis
- self governing/independence
- autonomy
- concern of adults in thirties over producing/generating something
- generativity
- being able to produce for the first time
- puberty
- study of the elderly; aging process
- gerontology
- study of death
- thanatology
- reaction of body to the pressures of life
- stress
- pieces of the environment that people have to adjust to
- stressor
- adrenaline secreted into the bloodstream
- catecholamines
- disease prompted by stressors
- disease of adaptation
- gradual intensifying of psychological, behvaioral dysfunction due to stress
- burnout
- pattern of adverse, disruptive reactions following traumatic event
- post traumatic stress disorder
- identifies psychological process of being able to defend against disease
- psychoneuroimmunology
- virus responsible for leukemia
- leukocytes
- belief that things will work out positively
- dispositional optimism
- patterns of thoughts and feelings that characterize a person
- personality
- why we do what we do
- psyche
- psychic energy
- libido
- self
- ego
- tells us what we should do or not do
- superego
- tactics that protect itself from the ID and threatening material from surfacing
- defense mechanism
- we acquire our personality from society
- socio-cognitive approach
- belief that we will succeed
- self efficacy
- your personality is formed by how you interpret the world
- phenomenological approach