psych 100 Exam 3
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- adolescence
- teen years to 20s identity vs role confusion
- anal
- 18 months - 3 years elimination then retention
- arousal theory
- people are motivated to maintain a level of arousal optiaml for their arousal
- biographical
- like case studies, you talk to other people in that persons life, interviews and investigating the effect of past events on a persons life
- biological changes
- aging is silent muscle tone loss vision gets worse decrease in efficiency in heart and lungs menopause alzheimers disease increase in proportion of fat to muscle
- chromosomes
- double strands of DNA in nucleus of cells that contain genes
- cognitive development
- intellectual growth
- concrete operations stage
- 7 to 11 achieve conservation can understand sequence can take into account two perceptual factors ex: 7 year olds and color of water
- conventional morality
- early adolescence, morality evolves to a more conventional level that cares for others and upholds laws and social rules simply because they are the laws and rules
- cross sectional
- different patterns with different ages
- drive reduction theory
- the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need
- ectomorph
- tall thin restrained self-conscious fond of solitude
- ego
- reality principle
- electra complex
- got her brother to kill her mother -- penis envy
- elementary school
- 6 years to puberty competence vs guilt
- endomorph
- short plump sociable relaxed and even tempered
- external hunger signals
- expected mealtime sight of food smell of food stress boredom
- formal operations stage
- 11 and up reasoning apart from a concrete situation reality seen as hypothesis formulated
- genes
- segments along chromosome strands that blueprint and timetables for our development
- genital
- puberty-- sexual
- glucose
- simple sugar that provides the major source of energy for body tissues
- Harry Harlow
- research on monkeys and their moms. found out that monkeys prefer security and saftey rather than food
- humanistic theory
- pyramid of human needs esteem needs love needs safety needs physiological needs
- id
- pleasure principle
- incentive theory
- a postive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior
- infancy
- birth to 1 year trust vs mistrust
- instinct
- a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned
- intimacy vs isolation
- concern for others
- Jean Piaget
- stage approach to cognitive development
- late adulthood
- integrity vs despair
- latency
- 6- puberty exploring environment and skills
- lateral hypothalmus
- brings on hunger
- liver
- measures metabolic rate
- longitudnal
- same person over time
- major causes of weight gain
- calorie intake expend too much calories self perpetuation of weight gain genetics modeling parents eating habits
- maturation
- an orderly progression, some events occuring before others (locomotion)
- mesamorph
- heavy set muscular noisy callous and fond of physical activity
- middle adulthood
- 40s to 60s generativity bs stagnation
- MMPI
- assesses a number of psychiatric patterns simultaneously 567 questions on the test
- Monkeys seperated from mom
- huddled in corner rocked back and forth bit themselves would not interact with others
- morality
- an important aspect of civilization system of beliefs, values, and undenying judgements about their rightness or wrongness of acts
- motivation
- process of starting, directing, and maintaing pyschological and physical activities
- oedipus complex
- boys sexual desire towards his mother and hatred toward his father
- oral
- 0-18 months mouth region
- personality
- an individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting
- phalic
- 3-6 years sexual love towards opposite sex parent
- postconventional morality
- those who develop the abstract reasoning of formal operational thought may reach a third level of morality, affirming peoples agreed upon rights or following self-defined basic ethical principles
- preconventional morality
- before age 9 most childrens morality focuses on self interest they obey rules to avoid punishment or to gain concrete rewards
- Preoperational Stage
- ages 2-7 cannot take the viewpoint of others cannot take into account more than one perceptual factor at a time ex: water contents height and volume
- preschooler
- 3-5 years initiative vs guilt
- psychosexual stages
- oral anal phalic latency genital
- pyschological changes
- crisis to deal with critical confrontation
- Rorschach Test
- inkblots, location and context
- Sensorimotor Stage
- birth to age 2 sensory impressions and motor reactions no past nor future no distinction between fleeting objects and stable objects ex: the paper infront of the toy the baby doesnt know its still there
- sexual response cycle
- excitement plateau orgasm resolution
- stats on sex
- 18-24 year olds 80% have had sex 6 or more partners 26% 50% said touching genitals is not sex
- superego
- provides standards for judgement
- TAT
- you look at a picture and project what your thinking onto the picture
- toddlerhood
- 1 to 2 years shame and doubt
- traits
- characteristic patterns of behavior and coscious motives, thousands of words describe these
- treating obesity
- self control excercise proper diet social support
- type
- disticnt pattern of personality characteristics
- type a
- aggressive when frustrated, impatient,controlling
- useful reflexes of newborns
- rooting reflex for finger that touches cheek grasping reflex stepping reflex sucking reflex
- ventromedial hypothalmus
- supresses hunger
- young adulthood
- 20s to 40s intimacy vs isolation