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Doesn't typically decline until after 75 years of age.
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Taste and smell
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Longitudinal studies on the effect of aging on intelligence show that the only tasks that show consistent declines in peformance with age involove...
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speed of reasoning
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Kubler-Ross stages of Death acceptance:
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Denial
Anger bargaining Depression Acceptance |
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Used to assess individual differences in several different motives. participants are shown pictures and asked to make up stories about them.
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TAT; Thematic Apperception Test
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Motivation to perform activities because they are rewarding in and of themselves.
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Intrinsic motivation
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The pleasure a child feels when he/she learns how to draw a star.
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Conducted first study which actually involved researchers observing sexual activities.
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Masters and Johnson
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Offers the common sense view that both emotional and physiological arousal are caused by the same stimulus.
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The Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
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The theoruy that people must first experience and emotion, then act upon it. Such as climbing a mountain with fear
one is able to react to an event after experiencing the emotion before. Ignorance is bliss. |
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Used to predict future performance...
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Aptitude
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developed a theory of multiple intelligences
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Gardner
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Developed the first intelligence test as a way to identify children who couldn't benefit from regular education.
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Binet and Simon
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Later created the Stanford-Binet IQ test where chronological age and mental age were calculated.
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Plays a major role in hunger and thirst
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Hypothalamus
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The finding that IQ scores have risen all over the world in recent decades. is named after the scientist who discovered it.
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Flynn Effect
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Flynn's analysis of IQ data over several generations suggest that individuals of average IQ born in the late 19th century would be mentally retarded by today's standards.
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emphasized the controversial point of view that the genetic hypothesis of group differences in intelligence.
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The Bell Curve
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IQ curve from 85-130. Mirror images of eachother. 34% in between 85-100. 34% between 100-115. 13% between 70-85 and 13% between 115-130.
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Primarily responsible for relaying incoming sensory information to the cerebral cortex.
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The Thalamus
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The process that causes people in a large group to lose some of their inhibitions.
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Deindividuation
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Lowered self-awareness. Temporary loss of identity resulting from becoming a part of a group.
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The belief that one's own culture is morally superior to others is called...
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cultural relativism
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Identified sixteen source traits- dimensions of personality that underlie differences in many other less important surface traits.
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Cattell
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The five personality dimensions...
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O; Openness to experience
C; Conscientiousness E: Extraversion A: Agreeableness N: neuroticism |
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Individuals are asked to describe what they see in series of inkblots, projective measures of personality.
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Rorschach
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One of the all time great trait theorists
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Gordon Allport
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hasdifferent stress points for different life events.
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Holmes and Rahe's scale
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A list of 41 stressful life events that can cause illness
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The leading cause of death in the US is
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heart disease
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A person will do cerain things if they think it will help them. According to this model,the reason young people neglect to use condoms or wear seatbelts is because they believe that the likelihood of injury or illness is low.
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Health Belief Model
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Related to major disorders themselves.
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Axis 1
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Psychiatric disorders such as... Delirium,dementia, somataform disorders, dissassociative disorders, sleep and eating disorders etc.
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Related to mental retardation and to personality disorders...
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Axis 2
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pertains to general medical conditionsrelevant to each disorder.
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Axis 3
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Axis 1 is: Clinical Psychiatric Disorders
Axis 2 is: Mental retardation and personality disorders Axis 3 is: general medical conditions Axis 4 is: Psychosocial and environmental problems Axis 5 is: GAF scale |
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Considers psychosocial and environmental factors.
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Axis 4
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Educational or occupational problems, housing problem, crime, etc.
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Related to global assessment of current functioning
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Axis 5
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Believes that mental disorders stem from conflicts described by Freud.
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Psychodynamic Theory
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Provides unconditional positive regard in a caring empathetic environment.
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Roger's
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