FMST 210 UBC Final Exam With
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Psychoanalytic theories - ANSWER- behaviour is internally motivated and influenced by
unconscious inner thoughts and conflicts
(Behaviourist) Operant Conditioning - ANSWER- behaviour becomes more or less
probable depending on its consequences - rewards and punishments
(Behaviourist) Social Learning Theory - ANSWER- observe behaviour through other's
rewards and punishments - observational learning and reciprocal determinism (bobo
doll experiment)
observational learning - ANSWER- people learn through observing and imitating models
reciprocal determinism - ANSWER- individuals and environment interact and influence
each other (parents behaviour influences children who influence parents)
cognitive theories - ANSWER- motivated by how we think about and understand things
in the world - development/behaviour are the result of thought/cognition
major cognitive theories/theorists - ANSWER- Piaget and Information Processing
Theory
Piaget's cognitive Developmental Theory - ANSWER- children and adults are active
explorers of their world and organize what they learn in a certain way in their head
Information Processing Theory - ANSWER- we behave the way we do because we've
learned certain things and processed them in a certain way (thinking is information
processing)
sociocultural systems theory - ANSWER- behaviour is motivated by multiple
environments in which we exist both direct (people) and indirect (political) - people
inseparable from multiple contexts where they exist
major sociocultural systems theories - ANSWER- Vygotsky's sociocultural systems
theory and Bronfenbrenner's bioecological systems theory
Vygotsky's Sociocultural Systems theory - ANSWER- examines how culture is
transmitted from one generation to the next through social interaction (formal and
informal contacts teach children culture)
, Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory - ANSWER- addresses both the role of the
individual and that individual's social interactions (individual as active participant in
developing in contexts)
parts of genetic inheritance - ANSWER- genes, chromosomes, and what we inherit from
our parents
how do genes come? - ANSWER- in pairs
dominant genes - ANSWER- always expressed regardless of gene pairing
recessive genes - ANSWER- expressed dependent on other gene pairing
examples of dominant/recessive genes - ANSWER- hair colour, eye colour,
trends in maternal age - ANSWER- women getting pregnant later (30-40)
age and risks of high risk pregnancy - ANSWER- 35, down syndrome, stillborn
how many calories pregnant women need - ANSWER- 2/3000 per day
B vitamin crucial in pregnancy - ANSWER- Folic acid linked with spinobifida
role of stress in pregnancy - ANSWER- poses risk to fetus of low birth weight,
premature, longer hospital stay, raised heart rate and activity
long term effects of stress in pregnancy - ANSWER- ADHD, anxiety, aggression
what prenatal care does - ANSWER- improves outcomes through basic services
what prenatal care is - ANSWER- nutrition, doctor visits,
ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in access to prenatal care - ANSWER- lack of
health insurance, transportation, job flexibility,
mothers unsure about pregnancy and with prior negative experiences - ANSWER- dont
access prenatal care
contextual influences on pubertal timing - ANSWER- nutrition, stress, SES, difference in
ration of fat to body size (girls) and muscle to body size (boys)
effects of stress on puberty - ANSWER- early onset (sexual abuse, poor familial
relationships, high anxiety)
triggers menarche - ANSWER- leptin (found in fat)
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