| | |Chapter Summary/Lecture Organizer | I. INTRODUCING PSYCHOLOGY A. What is Psychology? - The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Psychology values empirical evidence - information acquired by direct observation and measurement using systematic scientific methods and critical thinking – the process of objectively evaluating, comparing
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HD 340 – Fall 2015 – Midterm #2 Study Guide Chapter 5 through 7 ~ Infancy & Toddlerhood ***In addition, to merely knowing definitions, make sure you can apply the terms to situations, knows pros & cons (if applicable), etc… Please feel free to email me or visit office hours if you get stuck on anything on the guide. Chapter 5 • Cephalocaudal trend: from the Latin for “head to tail.” During the prenatal period, the head develops more rapidly than the lower part of the body. Birth:
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streamlined definition of emotional abuse exists, research on emotional abuse frequently utilizes the definition presented by the American Professional Society on Abuse of Children (APSAC, 2002): “[Emotional abuse is] a repeated pattern of caregiver behavior or a serious incident that transmits to the child that s/he is worthless, flawed, unloved, unwanted, endangered, or only of value in meeting another’s needs” (Myers et al., 2002; Spinazzola et al., 2014; Wolfe & McIsaac, 2010; Glaser, 2011; Baker
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A Tour of the Brain Nicole Wegner Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted on July 22, 2014 for Clint Powell’s G148 General Psychology course. A Tour of the Brain I feel there are five major parts of the human brain. These parts are the lobes, brain stem, limbic system, cerebrum, and cerebellum. I would like to take you on a tour of the brain to discuss these parts. We will go over their functions, and the things that contribute to each major part. We will also look
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It is usually associated with distress, disease, response to a particular event, or limited to social relations (Chikomo, 2011). Mental health knowledge is the capacity to identify specific disorders, knowing how to seek mental health information knowledge of risk factors and causes, of self-treatments
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It’s a leader’s own mood. Executives’ emotional intelligence—their selfawareness, empathy, rapport with others—has clear links to their own performance. But new research shows that a leader’s emotional style also drives everyone else’s moods and behaviors—through a neurological process called mood contagion. It’s akin to “Smile and the whole world smiles with you.” W Emotional intelligence travels through an organization like electricity over telephone wires. Depressed, ruthless bosses create
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History “Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior” (Apa, 2014). Contemporary psychology studies a wide range of topics that focus on human behavior and mental process on different levels such as cultural and neural. The discipline of psychology emerges in the late 1800s, however, it can be traced all the way back to the Greeks. It was during the 17th century that Rene Descartes, a French philosopher introduced the idea of dualism. This idea stated that the mind and the human body are two
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present at junction. Brain and spinal cord, neurons are organized into groups Neural networks Sensory systems: group of neurons that provide info about the environment • (hearing, vision, taste, smell, and touch) Motor systems: parts of the NS that influence muscles and other organs to respond to the environment. Peripheral Nervous System: includes all the nervous system not housed in bone, carries out sensory and motor functions Central Nervous System: encased in bone (brain, inside the skull
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Drug Addiction? Drug addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences to the drug addict and those around them. Drug addiction is a brain disease because the abuse of drugs leads to changes in the structure and function of the brain. Although it is true that for most people the initial decision to take drugs is voluntary, over time the changes in the brain caused by repeated drug abuse can affect a person's self-control
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modifying behavior an operant which utilizes contingencies between a discriminative stimulus, an operant response, a reinforce to change the probability of a response occurring again in that situation. This paper also Distinguishes between classical and operant conditioning. One of the major differences involves the types of behaviors that are conditioned. While classical conditioning is centered on involuntary, automatic behaviors, operant conditioning is focused on voluntary behaviors. * While
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