Psyc 35 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Developmental Psychology An interdisciplinary field that describes, identifies, and seeks to understand factors that influence age-related change and stability across the lifespan Developmental Psychology The scientific study of age-related changes in our bodies, behaviour, thinking, emotions, social relationships, and personalities Physical This domain includes changes in size, shape, and characteristics of the body (growth, puberty, pregnancy, menopause, motor development) Also includ...

What Causes Attraction to Others?-Basic human need to be included -makes sense evolutionarily (basic human need) -no matter what our personalities are like -introverted people are uncertain about the benefits of interaction, but if you ask them how they feel after interacting with someone, they are happier than when they are alone -extroverts are much happier after they hang out with people Ostracism-Acts of excluding or ignoring -In experiments, ostracism is manipulated by: 1.) feedbac...

PSYC 356- Athabasca Exam Questions With Verified Answers What is personality? - answerPermanent traits and unique characteristics that give consistency and individuality to a person's behaviour Traits - answerIndividual differences in behaviour, consistency of behaviour over time, stability of behaviour across situations. Characteristics - answerUnique qualities of an individual that include attributes like temperament, physique, intelligence. Scientific theory - answerSet of related as...

PSYC 3530 Semester 1 Exam Prediction Questions 2024. Which of the following is listed as a criticism of the guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) verdict? - CORRECT ANSWER all of the above It has not lived up to the promise that mentally ill offenders would be more likely to receive treatment. It requires jurors to make the difficult distinction between mental illness that results in insanity and mental illness that does not. There seems to be no difference in treatment or outcome of thos...

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Autoeroticismterm used by Havelock Ellis (an early sexologist) - term to describe solitary sexual behaviour - including masturbation, nocturnal orgasms and sexual fantasies is it possible to have an orgasm from sexual fantasies alone?yes - but hard not to ensure physical involved - but point is that sexual fantasies are very very powerful social scripts involve what in sexual fantasies?a more complex sexual fantasy - a little story, who, what, when, where, why - social context is import...

Nature of Families (what are they)2+ people, where one of which is the homeowner, related by birth, adoption or marriage, reside together Function of families1. Survival of offspring 2. Economic function 3. Cultural training and socialization Family dynamics perspectiveLooks at family as a social system and how it operates as a whole; Family members and relationships among them are interdependent and reciprocally influence each other Socializationprocess through which children acquire...

7 themes/ fundamental questions in dev psych1. how do nature and nurture together shape development 2. how do individuals shape their own development (active child) 3. in what ways is development continuous, and in what ways is it discontinuous 4. what are the mechanisms of change? 5. how does the sociocultural context influence development? 6. How do individuals become so different from each other? 7. How can research promote human health and well being?

Theories abstract propositions that explain the social world and make predictions about the future- provide a framework for understanding important phenomena Biological Theories focus on individual abnormality and explain human behavior as the result of biological instincts Darwin natural selection Lorenz Ethology; Concepts: Imprinting, Critical periods; Study Basics: Did the ducks with imprinting and critical period work Imprinting the process by which certain animals form attachments...

Determ-9fine cognitive neuroscience. Briefly describe the following methods used by neuroscientists. Brain Lesions According to the first chapter in your textbook, research in cognitive neuroscience .. Often obtains brain images while people are working on a cognitive task. A researcher wants to study how peoples attention shifts when they see a visual stimulus in an unexpected portion of a screen that they are viewing; this attention shift occurs in just a fraction of a second. Whic...