Final exam pys 201

Psychology 201 with Byerwalter at Grand Rapids Community College

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By: shawntai brown
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Outlines & Highlights for The Developing Person Through the Life Span by Berger, ISBN: 0716757060 (Cram101 Textbook Outlines)

The Developing Person Through the Life Span & Exploring Human Development Student Media Tool Kit
The Developing Person Through the Life Span 6th ed. (Book & Study Guide Set)

The Study Guide for Developing Person Through the Life Span
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Confounding variables

independent & dependent variable experiment group, control group

Elements of critical thinking

Few truths don’t need testing
All evidence is not equal in quality
Authority is not always right
Have open mind

Define the nervous system

Extensive network of specialized cells that carries info to and from all parts of the body.

Dendrites

Receive messages (branch)

Axon

Carries messages (bundle is called nerves)

Myelin

Speed up, protect glial cells

Glial cells

fatty cells support neurons, coats axon, cleans up dead cells, gives nutrients

Limbic system

Group of brain structures under the cortex involved in learning, emotion, memory and motivation.

Temporal lobe

hearing and meaningful speech

Cerebellum

Rapid-fire movement

Function of left brain

right hand, spoken language, written language, math, logic, analysis reading

Function of right brain

left hand, nonverbal, visual-spatial, music & art processing, emotion, processes the whole, pattern recognition, facial recognition

Freud’s theory of dreaming

Conflicts, events and desires of past represented in dreams

Activation-synthesis hypothesis

dreams created by high centers of cortex to explain activation by the brain stem of cortical cells during REM

What is needed for observational learning?

Attention, memory, motivation, immitation

Define operant conditioning

learning behavior through pleasant and unpleasant consequences to response

Flashbulb memories

Automatic encoding because an unexpected event has strong emotional associations for person remembering it

Declarative memories

LTM containing info that is conscious and know ; ie names of planets

Episodic memories

personal info not readily available to others like daily events

Semantic memories

knowledge of language, info learned in formal education

Non-declarative memories

procedural – memory LTM for habits, skills, conditioned responses

Levels of processing model of memory

information that is more deeply processed according to its meaning rather than just sound of physical characteristics will be remembered more efficiently.

Symptoms of PTSD

sleep disturbances, anxiety, concentration problems, flashbacks

Hans Seyle’s phases in reaction to stress

alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Social psychology

How persons thoughts, feeling effected by something real or imagined

Components of Sternberg’s theory of love

Compassion, commitment, intimacy

dysthymia

moderate depression last 2 years, reaction to external stressor

ETC

Electroconclusive therapy – biomedical therapy to treat severe depression through electric currents

Rational-emotive therapy

clients directly challenged in irrational beliefs and helped to restructure thinking

Cognitive therapy

Therapy in which focus is on helping cliens recognize distortions in their thinking and replace it with helpful thoughts (Jumping to conclusions, selective thinking, overgeneralization, magnification and minimizing, personalization)

Systematic desensitization

Behavior technique used to treat phobias, client taught to relax while concentration on fears

Unconditioned positive regard

warmth, respect and accepting atmosphere of therapist to client. Person-centered

Psychoanalysis

Freud: Dream interpretation, free association (talk about anything that comes to mind), resistance (relectance, silence at root of problem), transference (project positive or negative feelings from past onto therapist).

Goal of psychoanalysis

help mentally, psychologically disordered person understand themselves better

Leptin

released into bloodstream, signal hypothalamus that body has enough food and reduces appetite

Which neurotransmitter is associated with bulimia and anorexia

Seratonin