Unit 1 We Made Flashcards

Question

What is a critical period?

Answer 1

A short period of time where we have to be exposed/not exposed to a certain stimulus for a treat to develop it mostly occurs during prenatal development (before birth)

Answer 2

Sensitive periods are a longer period of time whereas critical periods are a short period of time Also critical periods you must learn something within that time where it is sensitive periods. If it’s not learnt in that time you can somewhat grasp it.

Answer 3

If critical periods are not met, they are not able to develop ever whereas if sensitive periods are not met within our time they are much harder to develop/don’t develop

Answer 4

Typical behaviour is when someone is acting how they usually do and acting how it is socially accepted Atypical behaviour is where someone isn’t acting how they usually do/they’re not acting how their demographic would act

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Cultural perspectives- somethings are acceptable in a certain culture e.g. it’s normal to eat snails in France but not Australia Social norms-these are the unspoken/official expectations on how people should act behave. These can change overtime and with the environment e.g. you wouldn’t scream in a library but you would scream at a footy game. Statistical rarity-this concept defines a typicality by how rare the characteristic is compare to other people e.g. being 67 is tropical in Australia but it’s typical Holland Me adaptive behaviour, not being able to adapt for the better

Answer 6

Me adaptive behaviour-this behaviour is atypical because it means the person isn’t adapting for the better/coping with change Atypical Me adaptive behaviour is bad coping e.g. substance abuse Adaptive behaviour is typical e.g. being able to adapt for the better this is the same as typical adaptive behaviour

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Normal tea is hard to define because it’s subjective different people can have different ideas of what is normal

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“ Any deviation from what is considered normal typical usual or healthy”

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Maladaptive behaviour: the person is an adapting for the better or coping with change atypical maladaptive behaviour: bad coping strategies like drugs or avoidance adaptive behaviour: being able to adapt for the better typical adaptive behaviour: the “normal” way of coping like regulating emotions

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Neurodiversity describes people whose neurological development and cognitive functions at atypical meaning they are diverse from what is normal/typical

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A psychologist can offer diagnosis and counselling and counselling treatment plans and a psychiatrist can do all of these but also provide medication

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The pros of diagnosis are being able to get treatment and being able to put a name to how you feel and knowing you’re not alone in how you feel The cons are labelling. (classifying an individual) stigma (often involving shame or disgrace) over identifying with disorder

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DSM-5 is a system for diagnosing mental disorders it is a list of diagnostic criteria that can be used along with mental health experience to guide the diagnosis to a diagnosis

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The strength are being able to access specialise services, gives a name to a problem, reduces feeling of isolation weaknesses are misdiagnosis, labelling of stigma, and over identifying with the disorder

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The independent variable otherwise known as the IV is the thing that you change in an experiment

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The dependent variable is what you measure to see if the independent variable made an impact

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Controlled variables are variables that are considered to have a effect on the dependent variable so they need to be controlled to remove it to effects (e.g. IV caffeine DV score on test CV students ability, amount of sleep, food other forms of caffeine)

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Ethical concepts, abroad, non-specific, moral considerations and ethical guidelines are a specific list of rules and a very clear

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Non-maleficence, integrity, justice, respect, beneficence

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Non-maleficent which is avoiding causing harm integrity the commitment to searching for knowledge and reporting it honestly justice. There must be no unfair burden on a group of people and the information has to be fairly distributed. Respect all living things are value in different thoughts and ideas Beneficence, which is the commitment to maximising benefits and minimising harm

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Confidentiality, voluntary participation, withdrawal rights, informed consent, deception and debriefing

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Confidentiality, people’s names are released Voluntary participation, people can’t be forced or coerced and no benefits can be offered Withdraw all rights, people can withdraw themselves and the result at any time Informed consent people must be told what’s happening. Consent must be written if under 18 must have parental consent. Deception and debriefing, once research has been conducted in deception must be disclosed and people must have support offered and must be debriefed beforehand (if possible)

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Population, the entire group of people that the research is concerned with A number of people from the population that is used to represent the whole population fairly Convenient sample using those who are readily available Random sample, everyone has an equal opportunity Stratified sample split into characteristics that concerns your study so then each population is represented (50% Christian 25% Muslim 25% atheist you would use 4 Christian 2 Muslim and 2 atheist)

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Between subject design, two groups, one with IV one without Independent groups design, randomly put into groups Matched participant design people appeared based on similar characteristics then split into the groups Within subject design, each participant has exposure to both IV and Control Mixed method design: a mix of the within subjects design and between subjects design there are 2 groups that go through 2 tests

Answer 25

Security attachment, 65% Insecure avoidant, 20% Insecure resistant, 12%

Unit 1 We Made Flashcards

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