Kategorien: Alle - autonomy - environment - heredity - moral

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PSYC

Erikson's theory of psychosocial development outlines various stages, each characterized by a specific conflict that influences an individual's growth. For instance, during the ages of 1 to 3, children face the challenge of autonomy versus shame and doubt, where encouragement fosters independence, while scolding can lead to self-doubt.

PSYC

PSYC

Chapter 3

erickson psychosocial development
Psychosocial dilemma: conflict we face b/w personal impulses and the social world

Stage 3: 3-5 -initiative vs guilt:

Stage 2: age 1-3- autonomy vs shame & doubt: encoraging the child to try new skills Autonomy. if they fail and the parents scrold them they will develop shame and doubt in what they do.

Stage 1: Trust vs Mistrust: trust when a child is loved and supported, mistrust when parent is cold and inadequate care

Theory of moral development
kohlberg identified three levels of moral development based on the reasons why the subject came to his/her decision

post conventional: moral behavior directed by self chosen ethical principles that tend to be general, comprehensive or universal

conventional: reasoning based on desire to please others or to follow accepted authority, rules and vaules

preconventional: moral thinking guided by consequence of action (punishment, reward, favors

hereditery/ enviorment
enviorment= nurture - prenatal envoirment such as a stressed mother, poor health, exposure to x-ray can all lead to congenital problem. teratogens are anything capable of disturbing normal development in the womb - sensitive period: early experinces can have lasting effects, during this period children are more susceptible to particual enviorments
herdity= nature - readiness: milestones tend to be governed by a childs readiness for rapid learning. a minimum lever of maturation must occur before another skill is learned. don't start to early or to late.

Chapter 2

handedness
the prefrence for right or left hand, can be inherited, does not necessarily prove that the person is lft/right hemisphere dominant
Cerebral Hemisphere and Lobes
Lobes

temporal- primary auditory area, and language

cerebellum- posture, coordination, muscle tone, memory skills and habits.

occipital- vision

Parietal- sensations like touch, temp, and pressur,

frontal- sense of self, control movement (primamry motorcortex), reasoning and planning

one way to test the halves of the brain individually is to work with people who have split brain.

right hemisphere- perceptual skills. speachless but is able to understand language (jokes, irony, sarcasm), patterns, melodies, express and detect emotion, drawing a picture.

Left hemispheres- analysis.. language, math, time and rythm, coordinating the order of complex movement

The cortex is devided into two hemispheres and is connected by the corpus callusom. The left controls the right side of your body and vice versa.
parts of the nervous system
Spinal cord

the spine can do simple computing on it's own- reflex arc steping on a needle which cause you to reflexively withdraw your foot. damage to the CNS is usually perminent but scientist have been working on CNS repair and have had a few sucesses

peripheral nevous system- intricate network of nerves. nerves vs neurons- nerves are large and have many neuron axons where as neurons are small and have one axon

autonomic

sympathetic

fight or flight system

parasypathtic

return the body to homostasis

internal organs and glandes, involuntary

somatic

voluntary, carries messages to and from organs and skeletal muscles

nerves in the PNS can regrow. They are covered by a thin layer of cells called the neurilemma. this forms a tunnel where damage fibers can follow as they repair themselves. This is why pacients can regain some control after reattaching a severed limb

central nervous system- consists of the brain and nervous system. brain comunicated to the body through the spinal cord. from there the message flows through the peripheral nervous system
Neural Networks
Neuroplasticity

the capacity for our brains to change in response to the enviorment. new synapsis may grow b/w neurons or synaptic conections may get stronger

neural network is an interlinked collection of neurons. 5 neuron synapse with a single neuron connects to three more neurons.

Chapter 1

experimental methods
variables, experiment control, cause & effect, meta-analysis
non-Experimental methods
Naturalistic Observations
survey method
clinical method
correlational study
Three contemporary prespectives
Sociocultural perspective

Stresses the impact that social and contral context has on our behavior.

The whole human

a single perspective is unlikely to fully explain complex human behavior. Perspectives are eclectic and draw insights from other perspective.

A broder view of diversity

Age, ethnicity, gender, religion, disabilityand sexual orientation all affects the social norm that guide behavior

Cultural relavitity

the idea that behavior must be judged relative to the vaules of the culture in which it occurs.

eg. Linda a Native American says there are spirits in the trees near her house. Is she dilusional? No, one must take into account her cultural beleifs.

Psychological perspective

view behavior as the result of psychological process within each person. Emphasize on objective observation, but also congnitive psychology which seeks to explain how mental process affect our thoughts, actions and feelings

Biological perspective

Seeks to explain behaviour in terms of bilogical principles such as brain process, evolution, and genetics. biopsycologist are producting insights on how the brain related to thinkinf , feeling, preception, abnormal behavior, etc.

Pseudopsychology
appeear to be scietific but are false. types of superstitions, beliefs without evidence or in the face of falsifying evidence

BARNUM Effect- a tendency to consider personal descriptions accurate if they are stated in general terms

confirmation bias- personalit traits will contain both sides of a personality for example you are an introvert but sometimes a extrovert. when reading this we remember the stuff that relate to us and prove true, but forget the rest

uncritical acceptance- the tendency to beleive claims because they seem true or it would be nice if they were true.

examples of pseudopsycology are Phrenology ( personality traits could be indicated by skull shape. Palmistry (palm reading), graphology ( personality based on handwriting)

Goals of Psychology
The specific goal of psychology is to describe, understand, perdict and control behaviour. To answer the question of What is the nature of this behavior, Why does it occur, can we predict when it wil happen, and what conditions affect it

Control- the ability to alter the conditions that affect the behavior

Prediction- the ability to forcast behavior accurately

Understanding- means that you can state the reason behind the behavior.

description- naming or classifiying behavior is based on scientific observations (empirical evidence). Does not answer the why

Psychology- The scientific study of behaviour and the mental process

Psychology of Studying- Reflective SQ4R

Review
After reading try to summarize what you have just read. Restate all the major ieas, relate these concepts to your own life. This process brings SQ4R into a full circle as you review all your thoughts and reading
Reflect
Critical Thinking

Asking questions that require you to think more deeply about the subject, and analyse it with more depth. One way to approch a peice of reading with skeptism. As you go through the reading question what is being said which will allow you to think at a deeper level about what you are reading

Self Reflection

Connecting new information to information you already know. eleborate on your understanding by linking new ideas to your own experince.

Recite
As you go through your reading stop and recite back to yourself what you have just read. This allows you to process and also to evaluate what you may have not understood, giving you a chance to go back a reread.
Read
ask yourself a question on the topic before you bein reading. This allows for more attentive reading and active learning as you look for the answer to your question as you read
Survey
an overview of the conecept before acually reading the topic. allows for the reader to focus better on the task at hand