🥼🩺⚕️🥼🩺⚕️🥼🩺 Social Science Part 2

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supposed ability to move objects by mental effort alone

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Psychokinesis:

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foreknowledge of an event especially as a form of extrasensory perception

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Precognition:

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supposed communication of thoughts or ideas by means other than the known senses

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Telepathy:

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concept originating from Sigmund Freud. It is the state in which becomes obsessed with an attachment to another person, being or object

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Fixation:

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psychological process whereby the subject assimilates an aspect, property or attribute of the other and is transformed, wholly or partially after the model the other provides.

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Identification:

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to repel one’s own desires and impulses towards pleasurable instincts by excluding the desire form one’s consciousness and holding or subduing it in the unconscious.

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Repression:

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defense mechanism leading to temporary or long-term reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of development rather than handling unacceptable impulses in a more adult way.

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Regression:

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distortion of the senses, revealing how the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation.

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Illusion:

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perception in the absence of apparent stimulus which has qualities of real perception.

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Hallucination:

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form of mental imagery that is used to organize and analyze sounds when there is no external auditory stimulus present

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Auditory imagery

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The Eidetic Image has been identified in psychological literature as a vision, as a source for new thought and feeling, as a material picture in the mind which can be scanned by the person as he would scan a real current event in his environment.

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Eidetic imagery:

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psychological disorder characterized by elevation or lowering of a person’s mood, such as depression or bipolar disorder.

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Affective disorder/Mood disorder:

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an acute overwhelming attack of fear or anxiety producing personality disorganization that may persist

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Panic reaction:

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an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months

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Generalized anxiety:

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a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

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Schizophrenia:

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neurotransmitter- chemical released by nerve cells to send signals to other nerve cells.

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Dopamine:

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involved in regulating nociception (pain) in the body.

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Enkephalin:

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many functions in body, regulating heart rate, blood vessel and air passage diameters. Crucial part of fight or flight response.

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Epinephrine:

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synthetic drug used as a tranquillizer or sedative

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49. Thorazine/Chlorpromazine:

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an object of perception; something that is perceived

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Percept:

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below the threshold of sensation or consciousness

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Subliminal:

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magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction

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Threshold:

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Piaget’s stages of cognitive growth

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a. Sensorimotor:

b. Preoperational

c. Operational

d. Formal operational:

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birth through 18-24 months-

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a. Sensorimotor:

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Toddlerhood to childhood (7)-

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b. Preoperational

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ages 7-12-

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c. Operational

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adolescence through adulthood

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d. Formal operational:

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They focus on what they see, what they are doing and physical interactions with their immediate environment

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a. Sensorimotor

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only aware what is immediately in front of them.

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a. Sensorimotor

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Their language becomes more mature and develop memory and imagination which allows them to understand the difference between past and future.

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b. Preoperational

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Think about things symbolically.

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b. Preoperational

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demonstrate logical and concrete reasoning.

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c. Operational

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Thinking becomes less egocentric and increasingly aware of external events.

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c. Operational

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able to logically use symbols related to abstract concepts

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d. Formal operational:

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aka isolation effect

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Von Restorff effect

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predicts that an item that “stands out like a sore thumb” is more likely to be remembered than other items.

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Von Restorff effect

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people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks

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Zeigarnik effect:

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experimental effect found in some studies of verbal conditioning in which the speaker’s use of certain classes of words may increase in frequency when reinforced by the listener making appropriate diffident gestures of assent.

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Greenspoon effect

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optical illusion consisting of stylized arrow.

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Muller-Lyer illusion:

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brain is holistic, parallel and analog with self- organizing tendencies.

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Gestalt Principle of perceptual organization:

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objects or events that are near to one another are perceived as belonging together as a unit

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Proximity:

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there is innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction

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Continuation

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innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric

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Closure:

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aspects of perceptual field that move or function in a similar manner will be perceived as a unit

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Common fate law:

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parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging as a unity

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Similarity law:

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Loving parent who is firm and consistent produces

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a competent and self-reliant child.

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Man’s impulses most frequently conflict with moral standards of society:

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sex and aggression

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being able to focus one’s auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli

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Selective attention:

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change over time in the responsiveness of sensory system to a constant stimulus

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Sensory adaptation

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Smallest detectable difference between a starting and secondary level of particular sensory stimulus

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Just noticeable difference: