Final

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Nature Vs Nuture

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Nature=biology Nuture= Enviroment

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Longitudinal Research

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Study the same group of people over different points in life.

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Eriksons stage 1

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Trust vs. Mistrust

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Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage

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Stage where object permanence is mastered.

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Adolescence

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The period of life beginning with puberty and ending with early adulthood

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Teratogens

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foreign substance harmful to fetus

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Fetal alcohol Syndrome

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Lower IQ facial abnormalities Growth retardation

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Patterns of physical development

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influenced by nutrition

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Temperament

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an individuals behavioral style

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Hypothalamus

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regulates internal bodily fuctions

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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Physical, Safety, Love and Belonginess, Self-esteem, and Self-Actualization.

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Maslow’s Esteem Needs:

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Need to obtain self-respect, competence, and mastery over a particular thing.

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Primary Sexual Characteristics

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Maturity in sexual organs directly related to reproduction

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Polygraph Test

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Accurately identifying truth or deception is linked with the skill of the examiner and the skill of the individual being examined

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Parasympathetic nervous system:

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Calms the body.

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James-Lange theory

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The theory that emotion results from physiological states triggered by stimuli in the environment.

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Cannon-Bard theory

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The proposition that emotion and physiological reactions occur simultaneously.

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Motives

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Address the fundamental question of the why of behavior

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Freud’s Personality Parts

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Id, Ego, Superego

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Humanism:

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Human nature is basically good. People are rational.
People can rise above their animal heritage People are unique.

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Rationalization:

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The ego replaces a less acceptable motive with a more acceptable one.

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Psychodynamic Personality Perspective:

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People are dominated by unconscious conflicts.

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Attitudes:

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Very unstable. Two theories exist: Cognitive dissonance model and Self-perception theory.

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Positive illusions:

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Positive views of the self that are not necessarily rooted in reality.

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Asch’s studies on conformity

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Group size and group unanimity are important determinants.

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Bystander Effect

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The tendency of an individual who observes an emergency to help less when other people are present than when the observer is alone.

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Self-Serving Bias:

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The tendency to take credit for our successes and to deny responsibility for our failures.

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Abnormal Behavior

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Historically thought to be caused by possession of demons or supernatural forces

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Depressive disorder

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Characterized by episodes of extensive sadness or irritability, loss of weight, lack of sleep, and feelings of worthlessness. Women are nearly twice as likely to have depression than men.

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Effective treatments for Depression

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Medication, psychotherapy, and as a last resort electroconvulsive therapy.

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Bipolar Disorder:

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Disorder characterized by depressive episodes and manic episodes

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Phobia

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An irrational fear of something.

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Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder:

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Shortness of breath
Inability to concentrate Irritable
Overwhelmed

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Obsessions

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Recurrent thoughts

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Compulsions

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Recurrent behaviors

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Usually the common background of individuals with DID is that they have had a traumatic background characterized by physical, emotional, or sexual abuse.

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Schizophrenia

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Characterized by delusions and hallucinations and an overall disturbance of thoughts, emotions, and perceptions

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Negative symptoms of Schizophrenia:

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Behavioral deficits such as flattened emotion, apathy, and poverty of speech.

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Psychodynamic therapy:

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Abnormal behavior is caused by unresolved unconscious conflicts.

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Types of therapeutic techniques

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Free association, Analysis of transference, and dream analysis.

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Behavioral therapy:

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Abnormal behavior can be modified directly through the application of established principles of conditioning.

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Humanistic therapy

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Personal distress occurs when a person engages in negative thinking.

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Cognitive therapy

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Identify irrational thoughts that might be causing a certain disorder

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Learned Helplessness

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An organism’s learning through experience with unavoidable negative stimuli that it has no control over negative outcomes.

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General Adaptation Syndrome

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describes an individual’s response to stress in terms of three stages: alarm, resistance, exhaustion

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Chronic stress

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can have serious implications for the body, in particular for the immune system.

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Type A Individuals

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Competitive
Feels that there is never enough time
Achievement motivated

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Smoking

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Contributes to cancer deaths, deaths from heart disease, and an increased risk of middle ear disease in children