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Why do social workers need to know about neuroscience and the brain? |
-need to know how people respond and develop -need to be able to talk about diagnosis or assuage fears about brain scans -the brain creates the mind that social workers study |
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Name the four parts of the cerebral cortex |
-frontal-planning, movement, memory -temporal-auditory , memory, emotion -paritel-language comprehension -occipital-vision |
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What are the major categories of brain cells? |
cell body, dendrites, axon branches, myelin sheeths |
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What is apoptosis and cell migration and why is it important? |
the development of the infants brain- this is how the cells reach their destinations and the brain forms |
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Name types of brain scans and why some are more useful |
fMRI- the best because it shows soft tissues well, but doesn't expose patients to radiation CAT- shows very good pictures, but exposes people to radiation- not good for kids and need voluntary participants |
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Why is evidence based research important? |
it tells us how to allocate limited resources and how to avoid relying on fads |
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What are some ethical considerations for social workers when placing kids in foster care? |
trauma of separation, burden to care givers, abuse in foster care, attachment needs of child |
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Why are parental visits a good idea? |
-they can remind child of good times with the parent, continue the connection of attachment. Sometimes parents can engage in anti-social play with children that is detrimental. |
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What is the amygdala |
the brain's emotion processor |
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what is the difference between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system? and automatic nervous system |
sympathetic- fight or flight response automatic- regulates automatic such as breathing etc parasympathetic-rest&digest |
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What is information processing? |
using the concept of computer modeling to understand critical thinking |
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Piaget |
-constructivist theory that humans contribute to their own development -play and children -studied his own children-noticed that children process things differently at different ages- -cognitive based -genetic epistemology |
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Erickson |
psycho-social-cultural -epigenetic principle- looks at the unfolding of personality in social+environmental context - |
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What are freud's 5 stages of development? |
oral anal phallic latency genital |
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What are Erickson's eight stages? |
trust vs mistrust autonomy vs shame initiative vs guilt industry vs inferiority identity vs role confusion intimacy vs isolation generation vs stagnation integrity vs despair |
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Ivan Pavlov |
Classical and operant conditioning |
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BF Skinner |
operant reinforcement theory-behavior is influenced by the events that follow the behavior |
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Skinner's terms |
reinforcers-increase behavior neutral operants-no effect on behavior Punishers-decrease the likely hood that behavior continues |
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Name some examples of behaviorism in action |
flooding exposure therapy progressive muscle relaxation social skills training |
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Albert Bandura |
Social learning theory- social cognitive theory -not reiforcement/reward based, behavior can occur vicariously by watching others |
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Bobo doll study |
reinforced Bandura's social learning theory that people imitate the behavior of others |
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How was Bandura different from other behaviorists? |
mental state plays an important roll, learning doesn't necessarily mean behavior change |
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Ego psychology |
Anna Freud, Erickson, Jeinz Hartman-ego did more than just suppress the id- several other functions, some occur without mental conflict |
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Object Relations |
Melanie Klein David Winnicot Margaret Mahler- development of psyche- people relate to others later in life based on childhood experience. |
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David Winnicot |
"good enough mother" "transitional object" "holding area" |
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John Bowlby |
Attachment theory-psychiatrist that studiedpsychoanalysis; early interest in “delinquent” and “maladjusted” children;formation of early emotional attachments set the stage for later relationalstyles/attachments |
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Ainsworth (1913-1999): |
developmental psychologist knownfor her work about early childhood attachment called the “strange situation”(VIDEO); Student of John Bowlby |
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Mary Ainsworth's attachment styles |
secure attachment Insecure avoidant Insecure ambivalent |
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More words for attachment styles |
secure, avoidant, ambivalaent, disorganized, reactive |
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Von Bertalanfty |
General Systems Theory |
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What makes general systems theory different from other systems theories |
says you can't look at a part of a system independently, have to see how they are all connected •Refutesearlier scientific notion that a system could be broken down into its parts andanalyzed separately •Statesthat a system is characterized by the interactions amongst the parts and the nonlinear nature of those interactions, dynamic, common language, used in various disciplines |
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GST Basic Terms |
INput, Output, throughput, feedback, subsystem, static or dynamic system, open or closed system |
