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Exam 2 Study Guide
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Chapter 4 Developmental
Developmental psychologists and what they study
Prenatal development—stages of; teratogens
Competent newborn
Infancy/Childhood—brain development; maturation and motor development
Cognitive development—Piaget and 4 stages of cognitive development—basic info
Social development—Harlow’s theory, describe attachment theory and types of attachment,
temperament and attachment
Deprivation of attachment
Erikson stages of psychosocial development trust; identity and intimacy
Child rearing styles-Baumrind research
Adolescence—Biological dev and puberty, Identity, peers and parents
Adulthood—physical development; Erikson stage
Summary of current views on Nature/Nurture, Continuity versus stages and Stability versus
change in lifelong development.
Chapter 7: Learning
Define learning,
Classical conditioning, be able to describe the basic components of classical conditioning and
these terms: Acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, and
discrimination.
The importance of cognitive processes and biological predispositions in classical conditioning.
Operant conditioning, and shaping
Identify the different types of reinforcers (will NOT need to know the major schedules of partial
reinforcement.
How punishment and negative reinforcement differ, and drawbacks of punishment as a behaviorcontrol technique.
The importance of cognitive processes and biological predispositions in operant conditioning.
Identify the major similarities and differences between classical and operant conditioning.
Observational learning, and Bandura’s findings on what determines whether we will imitate a
model.
Prosocial modeling and relationship between watching violent TV and antisocial behavior.
Chapter 9 Thinking, Language and Intelligence
Thinking: concepts and prototypes
Solving problems: algorithm, heuristics and insight
Obstacles to problem solving
Making decisions and forming judgments
Confirmation bias
Mental set and fixation
Availability heuristic
Representativeness heuristic
Overconfidence
Framing
Belief perseverance
Intuition
Chapter 10 Motivation
Motivational concepts
Theories of motivation
Instincts
Drive & Incentive
Optimum Arousal
Maslow hierarchy of motives.
Hunger
Psychology of hunger
Obesity and weight control
Social effects, physiology
Losing weight
Need to belong
adaptive value of social attachments
social networking
achievement motivation
Define Emotion & the components of emotion
Basic emotions
Physiology of emotions
Expressed emotion
Detecting emotion
Gender emotion and nonverbal behavior
Culture and emotional expression
Effects of facial expressions