psych Flashcards

(27 cards)

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Heuristic

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a mental representation you have for something (like a cat or dog) (drew an animal) Based on past experience.

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Concept

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categories (where trash goes) ideas that represent a category of objects.

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Formal Concepts

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Concepts that are identified by specific rule or features

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Natural Concepts

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Concepts that people form as a result from an experience

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What Causes Amnesia

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head and brain injuries, certain drugs, alcohol, traumatic events, or conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

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Prototype

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a concept that closely matches the defining
characteristics of that concept(Robiin in a bird species)

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Schemas

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act of throwing out the trash
For example, when a child is young, they may develop a schema for a dog. They know a dog walks on four legs, is hairy, and has a tail. When the child goes to the zoo for the first time and sees a tiger, they may initially think the tiger is a dog as well

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Scripts

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a kind of schema that involves a familiar sequence of
activities

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Insight

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Sudden perception on how to solve a problem

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Functional Fixedness

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a block to problem solving that
comes from thinking about objects only in terms of their
typical functions

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Mental set

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the tendency for people to persist in using
problem-solving patterns that have worked for them in the
past

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Confirmation Bias

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the tendency to search for evidence
that fits one’s beliefs while ignoring any evidence that
does not fit those beliefs

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What is singers theory (written)

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how your body will react in a time of arousal or stimulus (dog attacks you, your body will send adrenaline

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14
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Spearman’s Theory

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Test for general Intelligence

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Latent Learning

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(incidental Learning) no reason why or explanation it just happens EX(One morning Ravi’s dad has to leave early for a meeting, so he can’t drive Ravi to school. Instead, Ravi follows the same route on his bike that his dad would have taken in the car. )

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Intrinsic Motivation

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Doing somethings because you want to do it for yourself ( want to eat right to perform well)

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Extrinsic Motivation

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Doing things because of a external factor ( good Grades because of parents )

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what are the 4 things babies do

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Latching, Grasping, Sucking, Feeting

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Latching (baby)

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give baby something and it will hold on to it (Breast feeding)

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Grasping(baby)

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(if you drop a baby it will grasp in the air to grab onto something

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Sucking(baby)

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Putting everything in a babies mouth helps them learn what a thing is by the roof of their mouth

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Feeting/stepping (baby)

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happens when you hold the baby upright with his/her feet touching a flat surface.

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Systematic Processing (written)

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a step by step approach used to study behavior to find a solution. (a step by step experiment)

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Divergent thinkers

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multiple solutions to the same problem (more creative)(higher IQ)

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Pi(age)t
(1)(0-2 years) sensorimotor intelligence, (2) (3-5 years) pre-operational thinking, (3) concrete operational thinking(6-9 years), and (4) formal operational thinking(12+ years)-Complex thinking.
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Alfred Binet
intelligence(test) can be defined by the comparison of the performance of children at the same idea
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Homestasis
psychological and physiological balance achieved when one's needs and desires have been met.