PSY 200 Illinois State

April 1, 2008 Adolescence and Adulthood Lifespan -the lifespan approach means that development is a continuous process Erikson\'s Psychosocial Theory (8 stages): 1. trust/attachment (ages birth to 1) = infants learn to trust or mistrust depending on t

EXAM #3 STUDY GUIDE Chapter 3: Vision problems Neural circuitry for vision Parts of the eye Theories of color vision Gestalt principles of grouping Color blindness Depth perception Constancies Ambiguous figures Illusions Bottom-up vs. top-down proce

Chapter 5: Classical conditioning Pavlov\'s experiments Higher-order conditioning Generalization vs. discrimination Operant conditioning Thorndike\'s experiments Shaping Primary vs. secondary reinforcers Watson drug addic

Chapter 3 Notes: The Social Self *ABC\'s of the Self: Affect, Behavior, Cognition *Self-Concept: Refers to the sum total of beliefs that people have about themselves. -Made up of Self-Schemas -Beliefs about oneself that guide the processing of self-re

Some would argue that the trans-continental railroad was the most important element in modernizing the United States. What impact did it have on industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and Westward expansion? The tans-continental railroad was e

MEMORY February 12, 2008 Three memory processes: Encoding changing from Storage holding information Retrieval recovery from memory Information processing model systems: Sensory memory \"perceptual visual store\" or \"iconic memory\" - very accurate a

COGNITION AND LEARNING February 14, 2008 Problem Solving Understand the problem, formulate and evaluate solutions Methods Trial and error = inefficient and no guarantee Algorithms = inefficient but guaranteed (systematic consideration of all possible

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY March 18, 2008 Social psych how our thoughts, feelings and behaviors are affected by others We tend to make snap judgments based on superficial characteristics (primacy effect) After first impressions we tend to only pay attention

March 27, 2008 Child Development Neonatal behavior is reflexive (automatic) -two rules of motor development: 1. cephalo-caudal = \"head to tail\" development starts in head and goes down, head is developed part of the body at birth 2. proximo-distal =