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a hierarchy of motives theory (maslow)

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PYRAMID OF HUMAN NEEDS
1: (bottom) need to live, FOOD + WATER
2: need to feel safe, SHELTER
3: need to LOVE + BE LOVED
4: need to have ACHIEVEMENTS + SELF-ESTEEM
5: need to LIVE UP TO FULL POTENTIAL
6: need to find SELF IDENTITY

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eriksons stage 1 of development:

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watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpxy59j-5FcINFANCY 0-1
trust vs. mistrust

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eriksons stage 2 of development:

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TODDLERHOOD 1-2
autonomy vs. shame
(them beginning to learn to exercise their own will vs. feeling shame)

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eriksons stage 3 of development:

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PRESCHOOLER 3-5
initiative vs. guilt
(starting to take action on their own vs feeling shame)

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eriksons stage 4 of development:

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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 6-11
competence vs. inferiority
(they learn the pleasure of applying eriksons stage 1 of development: independently vs.

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eriksons stage 5 of development:

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ADOLESENCE 12-20
mOsT imPorTant sTAGe
identity vs. role confusion
(developing identity vs. confused with identity)

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eriksons stage 6 of development:

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YOUNG ADULTHOOD 20-40
intimacy vs. isolation
(starting a family vs. being sad that your not having a family)

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eriksons stage 7 of development:

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MIDDLE ADULTHOOD 40-60
generativity vs. stagnation
(productive and contributing to society vs. feelin a lack of purpose

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eriksons stage 8 of development:

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LATE ADULTHOOD 60+
integrity vs. dispair
(having moral principles/being satisfied with your life vs. regretting not doing this in your life)

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emerging adulthood

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when marriage and kids starts later than it did in 1890

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middle adulthood

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you decline physically

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old age and sensory abiities

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intelligence stays the same, thinking quickly drops off, hearing goes

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cross sectional study vs longitudial study

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a study in which people of different ages are compared to one another
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a study where the same people are studied

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5 stages of death by Elizabeth Hubler-ross

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1) Denial
2) Anger
3) Bargaining
4) Depression
5) Acceptance

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the instinct theory

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(motivation)
-evolutionary perspective
-genetically predisposed behaviors help keep us alive
-fails to explain most human motives

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the drive-reduction theory

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-the drive and need for homeostasis causes us to behave the way we do
-incentive*** an environmental stimulus that motivates behavior.

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optimum arousal theory

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-YERKES-DODSON arousal theory
-focuses on finding the right level of arousal and stimulation
-boredom

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a hierarchy of motives

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-abraham maslow
-pyramid of human needs

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motivational conflict theories

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-approach-approach conflict
-approach-avoidance conflict
-avoidance-avoidance conflict

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set point

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your neutral body weight

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what part of the brain controls hunger?

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the hypothalamus
-lateral hypothalamus stimulated=makes hunger
-the orexin hormone is released and causes hunger
-ventromedial hypothalamus stimulated=stops hunger

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emotion

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a response of the whole organism involving psychological arousal, expressive behaviors, and concious experience.

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psychological arousal

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heart beating

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expressive behaviors

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making a face

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conscious experience
thoughts that show emotion
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what did Darwin say about emotion?
Darwin said that emotion is adaptive.
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the Common Sense View of emotion?
where conscious awareness (feeling) comes before the emotional response (crying)
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the James-Lange theory of emotion?
the emotional response (flinch, heart rate increase) comes before the conscious awareness (feeling scared) THE BOOK DROPPING OMG.
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the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion?
emotion-triggering stimulus and the body's arousal take place simultaneously
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the Two-Factor theory of emotion?
Schachter and Singer emotions have two factors; physical arousal AND cognitive label once my heart starts racing, i realize it and label what i am doing, then emotion comes (reaction) realization+label = reaction
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what did Joseph LeDoux do?
LeDoux studied danger with processing. slow high road = sense something, understand the context, fear/maybe no fear speedy low road = see something, produces fear
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the Spillover Effect
an arousal response to one event spills over into our response to the next event
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what did Hary Harlows study?
Harlows studied contact comfort he studied this by putting a monkey in a habitat with a wire monkey that fed the monkey, and a cloth monkey that didn't feed it. He found that the monkey stayed close to the comfy monkey rather than the one that fed it.
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bodily contact
bodily contact provides affection + security, it is the FOUNDATION OF ATTATCHMENT
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what are the origins of attachment?
familiarity - repeated exposure = liking more imprinting - form attachments at critical periods in their life, the first moving thing it sees.
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what did Mary Ainsworth study?
she made a study called "The Strange Situation", and she studied attachment in children to their mother. In this study, she put children in a room to play with their mom, then the mom left, and then the mom came back. She studied the different reactions of the kids.
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what did 70% of kids in Mary Ainsworth study do
70% of kids experienced Secure-Attachment which is where the kids are uncomfortable when their parent leaves, and are very happy and seek comfort when they come back.
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what did the first 15% of kids in Mary Ainsworth study do
15% of kids experienced Insecure-Avoidant attachment, which is where the kids are very very upset when the mom leaves, and also upset when she comes back because the kid is mad at her.
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what did another 15% of kids in Mary Ainsworth study do
another 15% of the kids experienced Avoidant-Attachment, where the kids do not care if their mom is there of not, they play the same amount each time and don't notice their environment
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what do Securely-Attached infants act like towards their mothers?
they have positive attachments towards their mother
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what do Insecurely-Attached infants act like towards their mothers?
they have negative attachments towards their mother
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self-reliance
- knowing you are able to tackle challenges - securely-attached - if you lack self-reliance, you are insecurely-attached
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temperament
how emotionally reactive you are, do you have a short fuse or a long fuse?
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when does separation anxiety start in children?
at 13 months
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what happens if a child has neglectful parents?
neglectful parents means anxiety + depression early on
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self-esteem
self-esteem is how YOU FEEL about who YOU ARE
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self-concepts
our understanding and evaluation of who we are as a whole person
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the 10 emotions Izard isolated
1) Happiness 2) Shame/Guilt 3) Contempt 4) Interest 5) Sadness 6) Joy 7) Surprise 8) Disgust 9) Fear 10) Excitement
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what part of the brain associates objects with fear?
the amygdala
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catharsis
venting anger through action
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anger details
- boys take out anger while girls keep it in - keeping anger in is more effective than having an outburst
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what is the feel-good, do-good phenomenon
when we feel happy, we are more willing to help others
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well-being
our well-being is our satisfaction with our life
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facial feedback effect
when we make a face, our brain feels that emotion when we smile, our brain feels happy automaically
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what is stress and what does it do?
stress is any circumstance that threatens our well-being stress activates our fight/flight response which produces epinephrine and norepinephrine by stimulating the adrenal gland in the nervous system
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what does a stressor do?
stressors cause a stress reaction
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what are the two main ways we react to a stressful event
1) "I can do this!" = focused+determined 2) "This is too difficult." = more stressed+distracted
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habituation
decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation
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an infant's psychological development depends on...
their biological development.
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maturation
sets the basic course of development; experience adjusts it.
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what indicates a maturation in the nervous system?
crawling, then standing, then walking. (motor skills)
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cognition
all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
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what did Piaget believe?
Piaget believed that our cognitive development is shaped by the errors we make
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schemas
concepts where we pour our experiences (what does that even mean?) he used schemas to explain how we learn from our environment
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assimilation
interpreting new experiences into our current schema by ADDING DETAILS
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aCcommodation
C reating a new and better schema
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stinky pigs can't flyyyyyyyy
stinky = sensorimotor period, 6 months (kids lack OBJECT PERMANENCE, the ability to understand that things still exist even if you can't see them) pigs = preoperational stage, 6-7 years (kids lack CONSERVATION, the ability to understand proportions, the same amount of milk in each glass, just a different size glass) can't = concrete operational stage, 6-7 years (kids gain conservation) fly = formal operational stage, 12 years (kids have imagined realities and symbols, not just concrete.
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what is a polygraph
a polygraph is a device that measures autonomic arousal-
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the frontal cortex
controls decision, a teenager's frontal cortex lags so they make dumber decisions
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cognitive development stages
8 = outside of the box thinker, struggle with constant concentration 16 = well developed pre-frontal cortex, curious and adventurous 25 = abstract thinking, problem solving, and decision making 65 = a lifetime of learning, but a smaller hippocampus (less memory)
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what did Lawrence Kohlberg study
Lawrence Kohlberg studied morality, and he found stages of moral development
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preconventional morality
before age 9, just going off of punishment + reward
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conventional morality
9-12 going off of other approval/dissapproval (peer pressure), society's rules + laws
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post-conventional morality
12+, society's rules that can be disregarded based on the situation, abstract ETHICAL principles
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what did Diana Baumrind study
Diana Baumrind studied parenting techniques
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authoritarian parenting (Diana Baumrind)
a very strict way of parenting
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permissive parenting
a submissive way of parenting
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authoritative parenting
a mix of strict and relaxed, this parenting technique results in self reliance
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when do sex chromosomes develop and what happens when they develop?
they develop 7-8 weeks after conceptions when they develop, neural structure develops
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x chromosomes
seen in both male and female, female is X,X and male is X,Y
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y chromosomes
seen only in males (X,Y)
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gender identity
our sense of being male or female
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the social learning theory
this says we learn by observing behavior and by getting rewarded
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when puberty beings.... (2 things)
adolescence begins AND pruning of synaptic neurons begins
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selective pruning
where our unused neural pathways (ways of solving problems, doing things) are lost and re-attach stronger to the one way of doing something, makes the pathway more efficient
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zygote
(before 2 weeks) the stage in prenatal development where you are a cell/egg
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embryo
(2-8 weeks)
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fetus
(9 weeks-birth)
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teratogens
chemicals that can enter the placenta and harm the baby
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the 4 phases of physiology of sex
excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution (why r we learning abt this......)
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habituation in developmental psychology
a decrease in responsiveness to a repeated stimulus, often used to study infant cognition and learning, where infants become less attentive to familiar stimuli
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