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What are Piaget’s stages of development? (4)

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Sensorimotor, Pre-operational, Concrete operational, Formal operational

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What is the sensorimotor stage of Piaget’s development model?

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  • 0-2 years
  • understanding is routed in sensory and motor experience
  • achieve object permanence
  • emergence of symbolic thought ( language to represent objects, needs, actions)
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What is the pre-operational stage of Piaget’s development model?

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  • 2-7 years
  • lack ability to engage in mental operations
  • greater symbolic representation
  • do not understand conservation of properties (mass, volume, quantity)
  • animism, egocentricism, centration
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What is the concrete operational stage of Piaget’s development model?

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  • 7-12 years
  • Can think logically about concrete objects/situations
  • serial ordering, reversibility
  • can’t solve hypothetical or abstract reasoning problems
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What is the formal operational stage of Piaget’s development model?

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  • Can think logically about concrete objects/situations
  • Formal thinking increases throughout adolescence
  • More creative, enjoy brain teasers
  • Not all adults reach this stage and fall back on heuristics
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What were Vygotsky’s theories? (2)

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  • Scaffolding - older child or adult help by providing step by step instruction
  • Zone of proximal development - what a child can accomplish by themselves and with the help of others
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What are the 4 temperament categories for babies? And what characterizes them?

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Easy (40%) - cheerful, regular in routines, open to novelty
Difficult (10%) - irritable, negative reactions to changes/new situations
Slow to warm up (15%) - less active and responsive
Unique (35%) - blends of characteristics from other categories

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What did Harlow find in his monkey experiments?

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  • Monkeys would pick a mother that could provide comfort over a wire mother that provided food
  • being loved a baby is critically important
  • Children attach for things other than food
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What are the patterns of attachment? (4)

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Secure (60%) - explore, positively react to stranger, happy, great mom happily
Anxious-resistant (10%) - fearful, demands moms attention, distressed when. mom leaves, not soothed with return
Anxious-avoidant (15%) - few signs of attachment, don’t cry when mom leaves, don’t seek contact
Disorganized/Disoriented (15%) - no reliable manner of coping with separation and reunions

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What are the parenting styles? (4) What one is considered the best?

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Authoritarian, Authoritative, Indulgent, Negleting
Authoritative

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What is an authoritative parenting style? What kinds of kids does it produce?

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  • Demanding but caring, good child-parent communication
  • Kids with higher self-esteem
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What is an authoritarian parenting style? What kinds of kids does it produce?

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  • Assertion of parental power without warmth
  • Kids with lower self esteem
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What is an indulgent parenting style? What kinds of kids does it produce?

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  • Warm towards child but lax in setting limits
  • Immature, poor self control
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What is an neglecting parenting style? What kinds of kids does it produce?

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  • Indifferent and uninvolved with child
  • Impulsive, aggressive, poop peer relationships
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What are Erikson’s childhood and adolescent psychological stages? (8)

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Childhood
- Trust vs. mistrust (1st year)
- Autonomy vs. shame/doubt (1-2 yrs.)
- Initiative vs. guilt (3-5 yrs.)
- Industry vs. inferiority (6-12 yrs.)
Adolescent and adult
- Identity vs. role confusion (12-20 yrs.)
- Intimacy vs. isolation (20-40 yrs.)
- Generativity vs. stagnation (40-60 yrs.)
- Integrity vs. despair (60+ yrs.)

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What are Marcia’s 4 identity stages?

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Identity diffusion - not yet gone through identity crisis
Foreclosure - adopting identity without going through identity crisis
Moratorium - currently going through identity crisis
Identity achievement - successfully gone through identity crisis

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What are Freud’s 3 levels of consciousness? And what do they represent?

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Conscious - events we’re presently aware of
Preconscious - memories, thoughts, feelings we’re unaware of but can be recalled consciously
Unconscious - wishes, feelings, impulses, that lie beyond awareness

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What are Freud’s structures of personality? (3)

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Id, Superego, Ego

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What does the id represent?

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  • Operates according to the pleasure principle
  • exists totally within the unconscious
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What does the superego represent?

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  • socially developed aspect of personality, motivates us to behave in normal ways
  • Contains values, ideals
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What does the ego represent?

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  • Operates according to reality principle
  • Tests reality to see when the id can safely discharge its impulses and satisfy its needs
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According to Freud, when does anxiety occur? And how does the ego deal with the problem?

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  • Impulses from id threaten to get out of control, ego perceives danger from environment
  • Coping strategies, defence mechanisms
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What are Freud’s psychosexual stages?

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Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital

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What are the defence mechanisms? (8)

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Repression, Denial, Displacement, Intellectualism, Projection, Rationalization, Reaction Formation, Sublimation

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What is the repression coping mechanism? And an example?
- Keep anxiety arousing memories and feelings from entering consciousness - primary coping strategy for ego - Not remembering events of a car crash
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What is the denial coping mechanism? And an example?
- Person refuses to acknowledge anxiety arousing aspects of environment - Not wanting to talk about a class that's stressful
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What is the displacement coping mechanism? And an example?
- Unacceptable impulse is repressed and directed at safer substitute target
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What is the intellectualism coping mechanism? And an example?
- emotion connected with upsetting event is repressed and situation is dealt with as intellectually interesting event - Reframe as intellectual theory
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What is the projection coping mechanism? And an example?
- unacceptable impulse is repressed and attributed to others
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What is the rationalization coping mechanism? And an example?
- person constructs false but plausible explanation for anxiety arousing behaviour that has occurred - explaining wasting money gambling as entertainment
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What is the reaction formation coping mechanism? And an example?
- anxiety arousing impulse repressed and its psychic energy finds release in exaggerated expression of opposite behaviour - mother that resents child spoils it
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What is the sublimation coping mechanism? And an example?
- Repressed impulse is released in form of socially acceptable or admired behaviour
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What did Alfred Adler believe?
- Personality was formed more by social conflict than sexual tension - All humans feel small, weak and helpless in first years of life and grow up trying to compensate - Humans are social beings who are motivated by social interest - People are constantly striving for superiority
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What did Carl Jung believe?
- People possessed personal unconscious based on life experience and social unconscious - Collective unconscious is a type of memory bank that stores images and ideas that humans have accumulated over evolution - Explains phobias of snakes, spiders
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What did Carl Rogers believe?
- Behaviour is response too our immediate conscious experience of self and environment - People usually place conditions of worth on us - Unconditional positive regard is important, mom will love me no matter what
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What are the big 5 personality traits?
Openness to experience vs. resistance Conscientious vs. impulsiveness Extroversion vs. introversion Agreeableness vs. antagonism Neuroticism vs. emotional stability
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What is fundamental attribution error?
- Tendency to overestimate personality factors in other people than external factors - Assuming someone is clumsy when they trip but looking to see what you tripped on when you trip, rather than being clumsy
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What is conformity?
- decisions made in groups depend more on group structure and dynamics compared to personal factors
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What was the Stanford Prison study?
- Male university students, assigned randomly to be guards or prisoner - To understand how people react to authority
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What were the major findings of the Stanford prison study?
- people will take on the role assigned - people will disregard morals/values - power of social roles - participants lost their identities and morals/values
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What were the ethical concerns about the Stanford prison study?
- Abused participants - Lasting effects/impacts - Prisoners psychologically distressed - Not letting them leave - Researcher took active role in study - No informed consent - Prisoners were arrested, searched
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What was Milgram's obedience study?
- test was designed to see whether people would obey and authority figure when directly ordered to violate their ethical standards - teacher giving electric shock to learner when incorrectly answered word pair questions
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What percent of people would go all the way to the end of Milgram's obedience study if the authority figure took responsibility?
60-65%
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What are the factors leading to disobedience? (5)
1. Experimenter left the room 2. Victim was in the room 3. 2 experimenters issued conflicting demands 4. Person ordering them to continue was an ordinary man 5. Participant worked with peers who refused to go on
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What is the bystander effect?
Individuals in crowds failure to take action or get help because they assume someone else will
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What is de-individuation?
- People act out of character for themselves in age crowds - decrease in self-awareness leads to disinhibited behaviour - ex. Stanley Cup riots in 2011 Vancouver
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What is the just-world phenomenon?
people need to believe that the world is fair and bad people get punished and good get rewarded
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What is the foot in the door persuasion technique?
Get people to comply with smaller request before asking them to comply with something larger. Ex. Asking people to wear a ribbon for a day before asking them to donate.
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What is in-group vs out-group?
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What is groupthink?
Tendency to suspend critical judgement because of striving to seek agreement
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What are the stages of General Adaptation Syndrome?
Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
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What characterizes the alarm phase of General Adaptation Syndrome?
- Body releases cortisol - fight or fight response - body mobilizes sympathetic nervous system to deal with immediate threat
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What characterizes the resistance phase of General Adaptation Syndrome?
- body attempts to resist or cope with stressor that can't be avoided - physiological responses occur but increase vulnerability to other stressors
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What characterizes the exhaustion phase of General Adaptation Syndrome?
- persistent stress depletes body of energy - increased vulnerability to physical problems and illness
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What are the 3 personality types?
A - impatient, verbally aggressive, always pushing themselves and others B - more relaxed and go with the flow C - more vulnerable to stress, positive attitudes but unable to express negative feelings
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What personality type is more likely to develop heart disease?
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What are 2 types of coping?
Emotion focused coping - deals with emotional impact and leave stressor Problem focused coping - deals with stressor
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