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The weight our own body works to maintain. |
Set point
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An increase or decrease in heart rate.
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Physiological arousal.
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Perceiving a stimulus that has relevance to one's well–being will generate arousal and a subjective emotional experience simultaneously. |
Cannon–Bard theory
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The perception of a stimulus causes arousal first, which then causes you to feel an emotion.
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James–Lange theory
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The activity of facial muscles tells us whether we're happy or not.
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Facial Feedback Hypothesis
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Says that the quality of an emotional experience depends on how arousal is labeled.
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Stanley Schacter's Two Factor theory
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Deals with systematic, predictable changes in thinking and behavior over the lifespan.
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Developmental pscychology
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Involve comparing people of different ages at the same point in time.
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Cross–sectional studies
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Means that it cannot be determined whether differences across age groups are due to changes in age itself, or to differences in the periods of time.
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Confounded
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Involve tracking the behavior of a single cohort over long period of time.
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Longitudinal studies
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In which people of different ages are followed over a long period of time.
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Cross–Sequential study
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Describes how children's thinking changes as they get older. |
Piaget's theory
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Children think only in terms of what they can sense and what they can do.
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Sensorimotor stage
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The understanding that objects continue to exist even when their presence can't be sensed.
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Object Permanence
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Don't use logical reasoning, but instead reason intuitively. |
Pre–operational stage.
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The understanding that some quantitative aspects of objects don't change just because the object's appearance has been transformed in some way.
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Conservation
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They have trouble seeing things from other people's perspectives.
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Egocentric
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Think logically but only about things that are "concrete"
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Concrete operational stage
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Thinking, or the logic of science, can think abstractly.
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Formal Operational
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A child understands the world in one particular way and then sees something happen that can't fit into that understanding.
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Disequilibrium.
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Involves understanding events in terms of your current scheme.
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Assimiliation
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Relies heavily on the idea that tension is necessary for change.
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Erikson's theory of psycho–social development
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Sharing wisdom and experience with other people.
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Generativity
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Taking care of only their own deteriorating physcial and mental abilities.
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Stagnation.
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Share the common beliefs that people's behavior is motivated largely by unconscious needs.
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Psychoanalytic theories
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Describes people as having two fundamental needs or motives: sex and aggression.
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Freud's theory of psychoanalysis
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Refers to the biological part of our personality. |
Id
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Do what feels good and do it now.
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The Pleasure Principle |
