Psych Test 1

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theory

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set of logically related concepts that seeks to organize, explain, and predict data.

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hypotheses

Back 2

tentative explanations or predictions that can be tested by further research.

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mechanistic model

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Model that views human dev. as a series of passive, predictable responses to stimuli.

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organismic model

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Model that views human dev. as internally initiated by an active organism and as occuring in a sequence of qualitative different stages

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psychoanalytic perspective

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View of human dev as being shaped by unconscious forces

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psychosexual development

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In Freudian theory, an unvarying sequence of stages of personality dev during infancy, childhood, and adolescence, in which gratitication shifts from the mouth to the anus and then to the genitals.

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psychosocial development

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In eriksons 8 stage theory the socially and culturally influenced process of development of he ego, or self.

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learning perspective

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View of human dev that holds that changes in behavior result from experience or adaptation to the environment

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behaviorism

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learning theory that emphasizes the predictable roles of environment in causing observable behavior

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classical conditioning

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Learning based on association of a stimulus that doesnt ordinarily elicit a particular response with another stimulus that does elicit the response

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operant conditioning

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learning based on association of behavior with its consequences

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reinforcement

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In operant conditioning, a process that strengthens and encourages repitition of a desired behavior

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punishment

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In operant conditioning, a process that weakens and discourages repition of behavior.

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social learning theory

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theory that behaviors are learned by observing and imitating models

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observational learning

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learning through watching the behavior of others