Psych/Soc Flashcards
(30 cards)
Parallel play
Children playing adjacently to each other and observing each other, but not actually playing together or interacting. This is a behavior common to younger children.
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Physiological arousal and the subjective feeling of an emotion arise from different parts of the brain and are separate and independent of one another.
Preoperational stage of development (Piaget)
Ages 2 to 7. Children learn to operate symbolically and engage in a lot of symbolic play
Concrete operational stage (Piaget)
Deductive logic is main focus, reach after age 7 usually.
Folkways
Norms that govern everyday behavior. Health behaviors such as diet, exercise, and visiting doctors are examples of everyday behaviors. Folkways don’t necessarily represent moral views, and are less strict than mores
Mores
Norms that are deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society and have consequences if violated.
Case control
Compare people with disease or characteristic of interest
Social desirability bias
People may feel pressure to act in certain ways that are socially acceptable for the experiment
Kinship of affinity
Individuals are related by choice (marriage) and not blood
Anomie
Rapid changes in society, low income levels, high heterogenity
Content validity
Whether measure assesses what researchers intended it to
Internal validity
Degree to which casual conclusions can be made from study. Can include accounting for confounding variables.
External validity
Degree to which findings are generalizable to population
Cognitive appraisal theory of emotion
People make different interpretations about stimuli, such as interpreting stigma negatively or non-negatively, which leads to different emotional reactions.
Mediating variable
Provides a link and explains relationship between indep and dep variable
Moderating variable
Affects strength of relationship between variables
What is a basic conflict for people 65 years or older?
Integrity vs despair. Happens when they reflect on their life.
What disease leads to reduced dopamine levels?
Parkinson’s disease
Classical conditioning
Most successful when the CS acts as a cue for the US, which happens when the CS is presented first.
General adaptation syndrome
Describes the body’s short term and long term reactions to stress
House money effect
People take more risk with money that they do not believe is their own
Implicit memory
Includes procedural memory, refers to the unconscious and unintentional recall of experiences or abilities. (remembering how to ride a bike)
Flashbulb memory
Phenomenon of having an extremely detailed and vivid memory of an important experience.
Which of the following are unconscious?
id, ego, and superego
All of the above have unconscious elements
