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Rutgers | PSYCH 101
General Psych
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General Psychology STUDY GUIDE - EXAM 4 CHAPTER 12 STRESS, COPING, AND HEALTH I. Stress A. What is it? B. Types of stressors 1. physical 2. psychological a. frustration b. conflict (what are the 3 types?) c. change (is it inevitably stressful?) d. pressur -
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General Psychology EXAM 3 - STUDY GUIDE CHAPTER 8 COGNITION AND INTELLIGENCE I. Problem Solving A. What is problem solving? B. Types of problems (basic definition & example for each) 1. inducing structure (e.g., analogies) 2. arrangement (e.g., anagrams) -
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Tells the doctors, nurses etc. that they will be tested of 19341 were identified as psedopatients with full confident.23 were identified by psychiatrist19 identified by psychiatrist and staff 0 were pseudopatients of rosenhans Lessons learned: 1. Power of -
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General Psychology EXAM 2 - STUDY GUIDE: Part One (of Two) CHAPTER 4 SENSATION AND PERCEPTION I. Sensation A. How do sensation sensitivity to change) C. Sensory adaptation (what is it? -
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General Psychology STUDY GUIDE - EXAM 1 Part One CHAPTER 1 THE EVOLUTION OF PSYCHOLOGY I. History A. Roots: philosophy + physiology B. Zeitgeist and Ortgeist what are they and why are they important? C. Early philosophical perspectives (your book calls th -
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ClassFive: Vocabulary Experimentalgroupreceivesthetreatmentthatanexperimentisdesignedtotest ControlGroupasetofindividualstreatedinthesamewayastheexperimentalgroup exceptfortheprocedurethattheexperimentisdesignedtotest RandomAssignmenttheexperimenterusesa -
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ClassFour: Vocabulary DemandCharacteristicscuesthattellparticipantswhatisexpectedofthemandwhat theexperimenterhopestofind NaturalisticObservationacarefulexaminationofwhathappensundermoreorless naturalconditions CaseHistoryathoroughconditionoftheperson,i -
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ClassOne: WilhelmWundt: SetupthefirstpsychologylaboratoryinLeipzig,Germany Firstpersontoestablishalabintendedforpsychologicalresearch Sensorypsychology,consciousexperience,culturalpsychology Introspectheaskedpeopletolookwithinthemselves WilliamJames: Func -
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Class3Notes: Metaanalysiscombinestheresultsofmanystudiesandanalyzesthemasthoughthey werealloneverylargestudy Criteriaforevaluatingscientifictheories Parsimonywhengivenachoiceamongexplanationsthatseemtofitthe facts,weprefertheonewhoseassumptionsarefewer, -
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Class2Notes: FrancisGalton: Amongthefirsttotrytomeasureintelligenceandtoaskwhetherintellectual variationswerebasedonheredity Fascinatedwithmeasurement JohnB.Watson: Founderofbehaviorismafieldofpsychologythatconcentratesonobservable, measurablebehaviorsa -
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Chapter 1 Psychology - the systematic study of behavior and experience Determinism - the assumption that everything that happens has a cause in the observable world. Everything we do has a cause Free Will - The belief that behavior is cause by a persons i -
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Physiological explanation- describes the mechanism that produces a behavior Evolutionary explanation- relates behavior to the evolutionary history of the species o Charles Darwin called descent with modification and later called Evolution Electroencephal -
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I. OVERVIEW 1. Influence of Body on Behavior - No one will argue that the body and its mechanisms have a strong influence on behavior. This is especially true of the brain. 2. Phinneus P. Gage - Back in the 1800\'s there was a man named Phinneus Gage who w -
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I. SENSATION & PERCEPTION 1. Sensation - Sensation refers simply to your contact with the external world through your sensory receptors. These are the inputs received via our sensory receptors. 2. Perception - This refers to how we interpret and organize -
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I. CLASSICAL CONDITIONING 1. Discovered the principle of classical conditioning by accident. 2. Pavlov wanted to understand how a dog\'s stomach prepares to digest food when something is placed in the dog\'s mouth. 3. He noticed that the mere sight or smell -
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I. MEMORY 1. Definition - Memory is the capacity to retain and retrieve information. 2. Three Basic Memory Processes - There are three basic tasks of memory. Encoding is the acquisition component. This is transforming raw information into a form in which -
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I. THINKING AND REASONING 1. Cognition - Cognition refers to all mental activities associated with thinking, knowledge, and memory. 2. Concepts - Concepts are mental categories for objects, events, experiences, or ideas that are similar to one another in -
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I. Norm-Referenced Measurement 1. Definition - In norm-referenced testing an examinee\'s performance is compared with the performance of a specific group. A raw score alone tells us nothing. What does saying someone got 17 out of 20 right mean. This allows -
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I. Definition of Development 1. Definition of Development - the process by which organisms grow and change over the course of their lives. When does it begin? From time sperm fertilizes the egg. When does it end? Death. 2. Areas of Development - Physical -
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I. DEFINITIONS 1. Motivation - Internal processes that serve to activate, guide, and maintain our behavior. In laymen terms you could say it is how much you want to do something. 2. Emotion - These are complex reactions we have and consist of (1) physiolo -
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Social psychology focuses on the way other people influence our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. The study of social cognition-how we think about other people and ourselvesincludes such topics as attitudes, person perception, stereotypes, and close relat -
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I. DEFINITIONS 1. Consistency - All individuals tend to behave, think, and feel in certain ways that is fairly consistent across time and situation. While some things change, other things remain very stable. 2. Personality - Personality is generally defin -
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I. DEFINING PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER 1. What We Call It - Psychological disorders, as a class, are called many things. We use the term psychopathology, mental illness, behavior disorder, emotional disturbance, etc. They all mean roughly the same thing altho -
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I. WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY? 1. Definition - The book defines psychology as the study of behavior and cognitive processes. What does that mean? Does it mean the same thing to everyone? NO! 2. Different Definitions of Psychology - Different people in the past an -
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I. METHODOLOGY 1. Definition - Methodology simply refers to the methods we use to conduct an investigation. 2. Systematic Research - Research in psychology is not haphazard. Following the basic principles of science there is some systematic way all resear -
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FINAL 10,11,12,14,15 Chapter 11 Metabolism and eating Homeostasis* 329- set point o homeostasis- maintaining closeness to people with whom we are deeply attached. When you love someone and you havent seen them in a while, you are totally consumed by a -
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Psych Chapter 17 -proximity: (interaction accessibility) -need someone to be there physically, both parties interested in having a relationship -dependent upon persons ability to communicate/interact -interpersonal rewards: -social exchange theories based -
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October 20, 2009 - Page 183 social learning, albert bandura, modeling 1. Spreading activism 2. Illustrates how our mind is always thru spreading activation tracing out all the various meanings of what is presented to us, tells us how the mind deals with a -
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Samantha Hod General Psychology Test Three Chapter Ten: Freds Case: - Freds depressedLoss of love! o no friends o dead parents o wife left him o lost his job - He is disconnected from meaningful content - Fred knows he is fat but lacks motivation to chang -
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Samantha Hod Freshman Fall Semester General Psychology Notes Dr. James 315 Tillet LC Hours: Thursday 9:30-12:00 carltonj@rci.rutgers.edu Syllabus posted at Rci.rutgers.edu/~carltonj Teaching Assistant: KaiLu cfw_kailu@eden.rutgers.edu Wednesday 6:00-7:00 -
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Samantha Hod General Psychology Notes 2 Chapter Five: Classical conditioning: a procedure by which a previously neutral stimulus comes to elicit a response after it is paired with a stimulus that automatically elicits that response; the first type of lear -
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders Psychopathology- problematic patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior that disrupt an individuals sense of well-being or social or occupational functioning. Psychodynamic Perspective: three broad classes of psychopatho -
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Chapter 12: Personality Psychodynamics: a view analogous to dynamics among physical forces in which psychological forces such as wishes, fears, and intentions have a direction and intensity Criticisms of Freuds Psychodynamic Models & Case Studies Cannot -
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Chapter 11 psych test notes Cartesian Dualism: the doctrine of dual spheres of mind and body Biomedical Theory of Illness: A reductionistic view of illness, reducing disease to biological causes at the level of individual cells Times changed with Sigmund -
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General Psychology Notes Lecture 3 9/8/2010 Sigmund Freud (1856 1939) - Major psychological illness of 19th Century women suffering from hysteria - Why? o Because they had no rights: Not allowed to receive education, use libraries, etc. Husbands had all -
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Syllabus General Psychology 101 Section 05 Fall 2010 Who Instructor: Estelle Mayhew Instructor email: emayhew@rci.rutgers.edu TA: Kris Mescher TA email: kmescher@eden.rutgers.edu The TA is in charge of copying and grading the exams. The TA will have the -
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Psychology? 2 September 8, 2010 Today Admin Areas of psychology Three philosophical issues Nature-nurture Determinism vs. free will Mind or body Admin 1 RPUs & Sona Go to http:/researchpool.rutgers.edu/ Request an account, but BE CAREFUL to choose -
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Research in psychology 3 September 13, 2010 Admin Slides will be posted tomorrow What is on the exams of the book stuff if I dont cover it in lecture? Who:* First-Year Students What:* Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) *Register for your preferred pl -
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Science and critical thinking 4 September 15, 2010 Admin & Today Admin: 8th edition textbook Check the syllabus before you shoot me an email Today: Science as an approach to evidence Principles of critical thinking Warning signs to put you on your -
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Research design, ethics considerations 5 September 20, 2010 Today What have we seen so far? Research designs Ethics What have we seen so far? Psychology is a science Psychologists study a vast range of phenomena Principles for evaluating scientific -
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The Brain 6 September 22, 2010 Admin Notetaker needed If you are interested in being a paid note-taker for this class, please drop by the Office of Disability Services at 151 College Avenue located in the Kreeger Learning Center in Room 123 between the ho -
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Brain II, Neurons 7, September 27, 2010 Today Admin Two hemispheres whole/split Brain cells Brain cell workings: electrical & chemical Admin RPUs Lots of studies Try NOT to get negative credit, will you Where are the exams? In this classroom UNLESS -
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Sensation I: Vision 8 September 29, 2010 Today Admin? Components of visual system Theories of vision What is sensation? Sensation is the detection of stimuli in the environment by the senses Light Sound Molecules in food and drink Airborne odorant -
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Sensation II 9 October 4, 2010 Today Admin Review guidelines chs. 1-3 up, ch. 4 (hopefully) this evening, otherwise tomorrow early. About chapter 5. Topics today: Visual perception Audition, Vestibular sense Last time Structure of the visual syste -
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Learning I 10 October 13, 2010 Today Admin exam results will be posted by the end of the week. Behaviorism Classical conditioning What is it what are applications in real life? Basic Terminology Basic Learnin -
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Operant conditioning B -
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Memory I 12 October 20, 2010 Today Other forms of learning Memory Other Forms of Learning Other Latent learning - learning that isnt directly observable; we learn many things without showing them Emphasizes the difference between competence (what we k -
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Memory II 13 October 25, 2010 Last time Memory systems Sensory store Short-term memory or the variation Working memory Long term memory Forms of Long-Term Memory Memory 1. Explicit (or declarative) memory accessible to conscious awareness, can be stat -
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Memory III, Attention 14 October 27, 2010 Last time Encoding and enhancement of encoding Generation and spacing effect Context and state-dependent effect Mnemonics Effects of emotion on encoding Today Retrieval Recall, recognition, relearning (reco -
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Attention, Problem solving, Decision-making 15 November 1, 2010 Admin EC1 grading progressing slowly EC2 1.5 course points (dont trust calculations Sakai) Covers questions on Ch. 6 & 7 going live by Tue. Nov. 2, 8 am, closes Sunday Nov. 7, 8 am. At -
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Language, Intelligence 16 November 3, 2010 Today Expertise Categories and language Intelligence Expertise Practice effects Our first inclination is to attribute expert abilities to special, inborn talents. Studies show that expert abilities are most -
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Consciousness 17 November 10, 2010 Today Admin: exam grades up Consciousness: Sleep & sleep oddities Hypnosis Consciousness Consciousness Consciousness - Consciousness: The subjective experience of perceiving ones self and other entities. Brain acti -
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Motivation 19 November 15, 2010 Admin REMEMBER to do your RPUs! There are only 4 weeks left in the semester If you make an appointment and dont show up you get ONE NEGATIVE RPU, which increases the time you have to spend doing studies Every RPU less t -
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Motivation II, Emotions 20 November 17, 2010 Today Work motivation Theories of emotion Nonverbal expressions of emotion Happiness achieve People appear to differ in their levels of striving for accomplishment and excell -
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Emotions II, Stress 20 November 22, 2010 Admin Extra Credit 1 grades slowly going up (through K right now) Online Extra Credit B covering chapters 10-12 will be up by Friday Nov. 26. Watch the deadline! Remember to do your rpus! Today Emotions Fear -
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Social psychology I 21 November 29, 2010 Today 1. 2. 3. 4. Social psychology Cooperating, competing, helping Stereotypes, prejudice Attitudes, persuasion 1. Social Psychology 1. The study of how people influence others behavior, beliefs and attitudes He -
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Social Psychology II 22 December 1, 2010 Today Social psychology Remaindered attribution Attitudes Obedience Attributions Attributions Fundamental Attribution Error tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional influe -
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Personality 23 December 6, 2010 Admin Admin CHECK THAT YOU GOT THE RPUs YOU WORKED FOR! Extra credit(s) will be posted by Sunday Exam will cover Chapters 10-16 Fill out evaluations? Today Remaindered social psych Personality psychology Freud Huma -
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Personality 2, Therapies 24 December 8, 2010 Today Today Personality classifications/tests What is abnormal? Defining mental disorders Therapies Big Five Neuroticism is the tendency to experience unpleasant emotions very easily. Extraversion is a te -
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Therapies, Psychological disorders 25 December 13, 2010 Today Today Therapies continued Disorders Anxiety disorders Mood disorders Schizophrenia Types of treatment Insight therapies Psychoanalytic existential Behavior -
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Review guidelines General psychology 101:07 - Spring 2009 Chapter 1 1. Explain what determinism and free will are, and how they are different. 2. What is the issue in the mind-brain problem? 3. What is the issue in the nature-nurture debate? How did the m -
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Review guidelines General psychology 101:07 - Spring 2010 Chapter 2 1. According to your instructor, what is a science? 2. What is a theory? What is a hypothesis? How are theories and hypotheses related? 3. What is falsifiability? Why is it important that -
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Review guidelines General psychology 101:05 - Fall 2010 Chapter 3 1. What are the components of the central nervous system? 2. What are the components of the peripheral nervous system? 3. What is the difference between the autonomic and somatic nervous sy -
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Review guidelines General psychology 101:05 Fall 2010 Chapter 4 1. What is the difference between sensation and perception? 2. What is the purpose of the visual system? 3. What is the function of the iris, cornea, lens? 4. What happens in the retina? What -
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Review guidelines General psychology 101:05 Fall 2010 Chapter 6 1. What is learning? What are the two main types of learning ? 2. What are the differences between radical and methodological behaviorism? What are the behaviorist assumptions? 3. What is Pav -
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Review guidelines General psychology 101:05 - Fall 2010 Chapter 7 1. What are the three stores in the information-processing view of memory? 2. What are span (capacity) and duration, for which these three stores differ? 3. What are the capacity and durati -
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Review guidelines General psychology 101:05 Fall 2010 Chapter 8 1. What is cognition? 2. What is attention, why is attention useful to human cognition? 3. What is the difference between attentive and preattentive processes? 4. Describe the Stroop effect. -
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Review guidelines General psychology 101:05 Fall 2010 Chapter 9 1. For what purpose did Binet and Simon devise the first intelligence test? 2. How does Spearmans model of intelligence deal with the fact that a lot of items on intelligence tests were corre -
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Review guidelines General psychology 101:05 Fall 2010 Chapter 10 1. How does your book define consciousness? What is the relationship between brain activity and consciousness? 2. What is a circadian rhythm? What kinds of phenomena in the human body are su -
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Review guidelines General psychology 101:05 - Spring 2010 Chapter 11 Motivation in general 1. What is the difference between motivated and unmotivated behaviors? What is motivation? 2. Describe the view of motivation as energy. 3. What is a drive? Explain -
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Review guidelines General psychology 101:05 Fall 2010 Chapter 12 1. What is discrete emotions theory? What are the main tenets of this theory? 2. How are emotions adaptive? 3. Which emotions are primary or basic? Why are they considered primary? 4. What p -
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Chapter 13 review guide What is social psychology? 1. What is social psychology? 2. What is the need to belong theory? What is the evidence for this theory? 3. What is social facilitation? What is social loafing? Cooperation and competition 4. Describe th -
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Ch. 14 review guide Personality theories o What is personality? o What are two approaches to studying personality? o What is the basic idea behind psychodynamic theory? o What is the basic idea behind psychoanalysis? o What is the Oedipus complex? o Expla -
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Chapter 15/ 16 review guide Abnormal behavior o What are possible criteria for defining whether something is a mental illness or not? What are the problems with these criteria? o What two conceptions of mental illness are there over time? o How did approa -
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Imperfection or Almost Perfection Lecture 14 Instructor: George Chavez Humans are Imperfect In many ways, our imperfections are predictable _: Thinking and using knowledge The study of human cognition is slightly depressing. Some things to note 1. Atte -
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Language Lecture 15 Instructor: George Chavez Sound and Semantics Why talk about Literature in Psychology? Language is cross-disciplinary In each of these instances, a nearindecipherable text is made sense of Our ability to make sense of language is i -
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Smarts Lecture 16 Instructor: George Chavez What is Intelligence? What about a psychologists view of intelligence? Which psychologist? We all have different views General mental ability? Ability to reason? Using new information in novel ways? Some Gue -
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Waking Life Lecture 17 Instructor: George Chavez Between Life and Death Death used to be _ DEATH Hospitals were crowded like crazy! In 1968, the definition of death changed _ DEATH: _ Interestingly, some places still consider the old death the criter -
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Childhood Studies Aries (first slide) children as we know it was not depicted in European paintings until at least the 12th century He was not saying there were no children but rather they were depicted as adults on small scales. (second slide) morphology -
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CS 101 Terms to Know Exam 1 adultlike child children were dressed like adults and in certain societies like the amish, they were taught at an early age how to take on responsibilities like adults. age consciousness age grading Amish Aris, Philippe believe -
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Chapter One/ Two vocabulary Psychology- ? Structuralism-school of thought based on the notion that the task of psychological is the analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related. Functionalism- school of t -
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Which of the following are organized for profits and provide goods and services? 2) Capitalism is founded on_ 3) Outsourcing_ 4) Vision? 5) Social Responsibility 6) In the private enterprise system? 7) Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, 8) If the number of buyer -
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Background and Micro Issues 1 ) How do economists measure the value of anything? 2) What determines the price and quantity of any good or service? Demand and supply 3) What is opportunity cost and why is there no free lunch? Opportunity costthe value of t -
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General Psychology September 8, 2010 The Young Science The study of behavior and experience Psychologists date the beginning of psychology to 1879 - Wilhelm Wundt (father of experimental psychology) establishes a lab in the University of Leipzig, Germany -
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Psychology is the study of the mind or the soul Psychology: t he systematic study of behavior and experience Determinism: t he idea that everything that happens has a cause, or determinant, that one can observe or measure F ree will: t he belief that beh -
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Final Review Monday, December 13, 2010 9:49 AM Chapter 11.1, 12-15 Chapter 11 - Homeostasis and what type of theory associated with it - Difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: example or each - When is the over justification effect; when i -
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October 7, 2010 The Great Debate: Lecture 10 Nature: Its all in the genes - Chromosome o The whole strand of hereditary material o 46 in total (23 from mom 23 from dad) - Genes o Sections of the strand that control chemical reactions o Instructions for gr -
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General Psychology September 8, 2010 The Young Science The study of behavior and experience 3 broad categories of psychology 1) Helping the individual: Clinical psychologists- have a degree in clinical psychology and help people with problems (depression, -
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Lecture 19 Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:36 PM Doing, Feeling an d (ReThinking) Motivation and Emotion - Motivation: Determines what you want and, often, what you do - Emotion: internal (feeling) response to stimuli Very much related to an individual\'s p -
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Lecture 20 Thursday, November 18, 2010 9:50 AM The Beginning of Social Psychology - Norman Triplett- originator of sport psychology The social Facilitation Effect People cycling with others do much better than cycling alone We do better under pressure - W -
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Lecture 21 Monday, November 29, 2010 10:18 AM 13.4, 13.5, 14.1 Interpersonal Attraction Establishing Relationships - Proximity: closeness- we are more likely to become friends with people who live or work in proximity to us. - Mere exposure effect: the pr -
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Module 34 Social psychology: scientific study of hoe we think about, influence, and relate to one another Attribution theory: theory that we tend to explain the behavior of others as an aspect of wither an internal disposition (an inner trait) or the situ -
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Module 2: Introductory Chapter Wilhelm Wundt: founder of modern psychology E.B. Titchener: Founder of structuralism (Wundts student) Structuralism: theory that the structure of conscious experience could be understood by analyzing the basic elements of th -
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Module 4 Scientific Method: a method of learning about the world through the application of critical thinking and tools such as observation, experimentation, and statistical analysis. Confirmation bias: a tendency to search for information that confirms a -
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Module 6 Neuron: a nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system Dendrite: the branching extensions of a neuron that receive information and conduct impulses toward the cell body (soma). Soma: the cell body of a neuron through which contains -
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Innermost structures, called lower- level brain structures (including the brainstem, the thalamus, the cerebellum, and the limbic system - Brainstem: the oldest part and central core of the brain; it begins where the spinal cord swells as it enters the s -
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Module 8 Sensation: the process by which sensory systems (eyes, ears, and other sensory organs) and the nervous system receive stimuli from our environment Bottom- up processing: information processing that analyzes the raw stimuli entering through the ma -
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Module 10: Motivation: a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior toward a goal. Instinct: a complex, inherited behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species Drive reduction theory: the idea that a physiological need creates a state of -
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Module 14 Zygote: fertilized egg Genes: biochemical units of heredity Embryo: developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the end of the eighth week Fetus: developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth Terat -
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Dana Margulies Psychology March 6, 2010 1. The founder of psychoanalysis was Sigmund Freud. The main factors that influenced personality development are unconscious conflicts. 2. Carl Jung, a neo- Freudian, emphasized the existence of the collective uncon
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