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Why do we have emotions and what is their function?
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tehy facilitate actions (by us and others) that ultimately serve basic, important goals or motives
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Negative emotions are located in which area of hte brain
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the right hemisphere
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Positive emotions are located in which area of the brain
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left hemisphere
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what emotion indicates that aperson made a mistake and now recognizes it
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Shame
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what is the purpose jealousy serves for females
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it increases the likelihood that females will be able to maintain the relationship to their success
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what is the purpose that jealousy serves for males
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secures the passing on of his genes
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what value does grief have?
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creates connections to other human beings helps bring people together (powerful bonding)
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the body responds to what 2 emotions in the same way?
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Fear And joy
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What purpose done anger serve?
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It removes frustration when we don't achieve our goals
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who said that the human capacity for emotion is universal yet somewhat limited?
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Ekman
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aping in apes?
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The ability to imitate when chimps were shown a film that showed a chimp expressing fear at a snake the chimps watching also expressed fear
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what are several instincs that newborns have?
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withrawal reflex, rooting, sucking, and crying
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babies like ____ more than ____ liquids
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sweet and sour
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continuity of time and space
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2 objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time
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what is it called when our perception is not subject , we know what we see without question
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Absolute
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When u use your experiences as generalizations and apply it to many other similar experiences?
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Anecdotes
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when individuals of different ages are simlutatenously compared w/ respect to some test or observation?
Ex: test children at diff. ages w/ same problem |
Cross-Sectional Study
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Compares observations on the same individuals at diff. times of their lives.
Ex: test children at ages and then repeat at 7 then 9 |
Longitudinal Study
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At birth the infants most important influences are?
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Reflexes
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When a baby's cheek is touched it will turn its head toward= the direction of the touch?
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Rooting
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the process by which infants get to know things about themselves and their world
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Cognitive Development
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the ____ period occurs during the first 2 yrs. of life grasp objects/ symbolic thinking
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Sensorimotor period
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the ___period occursind during 2 to 6 or 7 yrs. of life incrased ability to think symbolically and logically/ egocentrism/ can't master conservation problems
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Preoperational
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6 to 7 to 11 yrs. can't think abstractly
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concrete operational
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11yrs upward / ability to think abstractly and hypothetically
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formal operational
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What type of mouse has a low metabolism, overeats and becomes extremely fat?
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OB mouse
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If Ob mice are given what? their metabolic rates and body temperatures rise?
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daily injections of Leptin
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Development of motor skills requires what 2 ingredients?
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Maturation of the child's nervous system and practice
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what serves as the basis for children understanding current and future experiences?
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Schemas
ex:grasping objects or putting them into their mouths |
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What is the process by which new information is incorporated into existing schemas?
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Assimilation
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what is the process by which existing schemas are changed by new experiences?
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accomodation
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What 4 stages are in Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development?
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Sensorimotor, Preoperational,Concrete operational, and Formal Operation
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a child's belief that others see the world in precisely the way he or she does?
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Egocentrism
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What is the ability to realize that an object remains volume, mass, length, or number when it undergoes various transformations?
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Grasp of conservation
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What kind of cue causes a child to imagine doing something bad .. then stops them from actually doing it?
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Anticipatory cue
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Most people view was as the #1 thing of morality?
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Law and Order
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sometimes the law is wrong and when we recognize this it is called?
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Social contract
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When you apply lables to an individual they will act in ways that will fulfill that label this is called?
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Self-fulfilling Processing
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When people try to mask the expression of a strongly felt emotion, they usually are unable to do so compeltely
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leakage
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WHat theory says the feelings of emotion were relatively independent of the physiological and behavioral responses to emotion-arousing stimuli?
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Cannon-Bard Theory
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What is motivation?
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affects nature, strength, and persistence of an individual's behavior
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what is effected by reinforcement and punishment?
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Motivation
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social response patterns are dependent on the?
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Orbitofrontal cortex
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determines which tests can be grouped together.
generates clues about the nature of intelligence, but is not a theory of intelligence |
Factor Analysis
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A type of informal learning that classifies figures or seeks patterns ina repeated series of items (a person's potential to learn and solve problems)
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Fluid Intelligence
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a school centered learning that a person develops through his or her fluid intelligence
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Crystallisized Intelligence
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objects cannot occupy same place at same time, moving objects move along a space-time continuum
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Object Permanence
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Watson and ramey used mobiles to demonstrate the importance of a responsive environment in promoting?
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Cognitive Development
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Other people are other cues to waht is important
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Social Reference
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the mother smiled they would go over the cliff but if the mother showed fear they wouldn't
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Visual Cliff
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Babies seek____ not just stimulatoin?
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novelty and control
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Emotional cues to safety, danger learning about the world from watching other people?
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social referencing
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prescribe the situations when we should or should at not display signs of particular emotions
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Display Rules
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an attempt to express an emotion that we do not actually feel
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Simulation
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exaggerating or minimizing the expression of an emotion
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Modulation
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attempting to hid expressive behavior
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Masking
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damage to the orbitofrontal cortex reduces inhibitions and self-concern. And they become indifferent to the consequences of their actions
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orbitofrontal cortex
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if the ____ is destroyed: animals no longer show signs of fear when confronted with stimuli that hav been paried with aversive events. In addition, they are tame when handled by humans
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Amygdala
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Emotional reactions have 3 components
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behavioral, autonomic, and hormonal
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Some skeptics called Cannon's explanation of hunger ?
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The rumble theory
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at what age is the superego created.. (an understanding of right and wrong)
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5
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all children dsire to be sexually intimate w/ opposite sex parent
child resolves desires through identification by identifying you take on their qualities and superego |
Oedible Complex
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when you have an early attachment you automatically decrease?
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any kind of sexual interest in another individual
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hold out a temporary object to the child and tell them that they have to wait
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delay of gratification
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measure of stress that the mother and infant feel (cortisol levels go up)
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Separation Anxiety
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insures that the infant will be cared for, nurtured, and loved
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attachment bond
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in the face of threat females ?
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seek support
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