UWEC Psych 230 exam 2 Questions And Answers Latest Updates
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UWEC Psych 230
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UWEC Psych 230
Secondary prevention - ️️Actions that avert harm in a high-risk situation, such as
stopping a car before it hits a pedestrian or installing traffic lights at dangerous
intersection.
Injury control/harm reduction - ️️Practices that are aimed at anticipating, controlling,
and preventing d...
UWEC Psych 230 exam 2
Secondary prevention - ✔️✔️Actions that avert harm in a high-risk situation, such as
stopping a car before it hits a pedestrian or installing traffic lights at dangerous
intersection.
Injury control/harm reduction - ✔️✔️Practices that are aimed at anticipating, controlling,
and preventing dangerous activities; these practices reflect the beliefs that accidents
are not random and that injuries can be made less harmful if proper controls are in
place.
Primary prevention - ✔️✔️Actions that change overall background conditions to
prevent some unwanted event or circumstance, such as injury, disease, or abuse.
Tertiar Just Right - ✔️✔️The tendency of children to insist on having things done in a
particular way. This can include clothes, food, bedtime routines, and so on.
y prevention - ✔️✔️Actions, such as immediate and effective medical treatment, that
are taken after an adverse event occurs and that are aimed at reducing the harm or
preventing disability.
Prefrontal cortex - ✔️✔️The are of the cortex at the front of the brain that specializes in
anticipation, planning, and impulse control.
Myelination - ✔️✔️The process by which axons become coated with myelin, a fatty
substance that speeds the transmission of nerve impulses from neuron to neuron.
Perseveration - ✔️✔️The tendency to persevere in, or stick to, one thought or action for
a long time.
Corpus Callosum - ✔️✔️A long, thick band of nerve fibers that connects the left and
right hemispheres of the brain and allows communication between them.
Lateralization - ✔️✔️Literally, "sidedness", referring to the specialization in certain
functions by each side of the brain, with one side dominant for each activity. The left
side of the brain controls the right side of the body and vice versa.
Limbic system - ✔️✔️The major brain region crucial to the development of emotional
expression and regulation; its three main areas are, the amygdala, the hippocampus,
and the hypothalamus, although recent research has found that many other areas of the
brain are involved with emotions.
Amygdala - ✔️✔️A tiny brain structure that registers emotions, particularly fear and
anxiety.
, Hippocampus - ✔️✔️A brain structure that is central processor of memory, especially
memory of locations.
Hypothalamus - ✔️✔️A brain area that responds to the amygdala and the
hippocampus to produce hormones that activates other parts of the bran and body.
Preoperational intelligence - ✔️✔️Piaget's term for cognitive development between the
ages of about 2 and 6; it includes language and imagination, but logical, operational
thinking is not yet possible.
Animism - ✔️✔️The belief that natural objects and phenomena are alive.
Centration - ✔️✔️A characteristic of preoperational thought whereby a young child
focuses on one idea, excluding all others.
Egocentrism - ✔️✔️Piaget's term for young children's tendency to think about the world
entirely from their own personal perspective.
Focus on appearance - ✔️✔️A characteristic of pre operational thought whereby a
young child ignores all attributions that are not apparent.
Static reasoning - ✔️✔️A characteristic of pre operational thought whereby a young
child thinks that nothing changes. Whatever is now has always been and always will be.
Irreversibility - ✔️✔️A characteristic of pre operational thought whereby a young child
thinks that nothing can be undone. A thing cannot be restored to the way it was before a
change occurred.
Conservation - ✔️✔️The principle that the amount of a substance remains the same
even when its appearance changes.
Zone of proximal development (ZPD) - ✔️✔️Vygotsky's term for the skills - cognitive as
well as physical - that a person can exercise only with assistance, not yet
independently.
scaffolding - ✔️✔️Temporary support that is tailored to a learner's needs and abilities
and aimed at helping the learner master the next task in a given learning process.
overimitation - ✔️✔️The tendency of children to copy an action that is not a relevant
part of the behavior to be learned; common among 2-6 year olds when they imitate
adult actions that are irrelevant and inefficient.
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