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Module 9 part 2

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Doreen Pang Mrs. Trainor AP Psychology 7 November 2016 Module 9-2 Autism Developmental disability in which child suffers severe challenge with social interactions, impairments with both verbal and nonverbal communication, and sensory overload. Signs emerge before the age of three Parenting ?Attachment Theory ?Attachment: ?the reciprocal relationship between caregiver and child ?Harry Harlow Comment by Doreen Pang: Baby monkey experiment-Preferred comfort ?raised baby monkeys with two artificial wire frame figure ?monkeys? ?one figure was fitted with a bottle the infant could feed from the other wrapped in soft material ?when frightened, infants preferred soft mom demonstrated the importance of physical comfort in formation of attachment

Module 9 part 1

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Doreen Pang Mrs. Trainor AP Psychology 4 November 2016 Module 9-1 Infancy and Childhood The developing brain overproduces neurons. Pruning: Comment by Doreen Pang: You don't gain new neurons; they're all there at birth the process of weeding out unnecessary connections and strengthening the important ones. Occurs during puberty Maturation Maturation: Comment by Doreen Pang: Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience Comment by Doreen Pang: Standing before walking, babbling before talking, nouns before adj Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. standing before walking babbling before talking using nouns before adjectives

Weiten Chapter 8 Powerpoint Language and Thought

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* Chapter 8 Language And Thought Psychology: Themes and Variation Wayne Weiten, 8e * Chapter 8 Contents Intro: The Cognitive Revolution Language: Turning Thoughts into Words Problem Solving: In Search of Solutions Decision Making: Choices and Chances Understanding Pitfalls in Reasoning About Decisions Shaping Though with Language * Intro: The Cognitive Revolution Cognition: mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge 19th Century focus on the mind Introspection yielded unreliable results Behaviorist focus on overt responses Cognitive psychologists believe behaviorism yields an incomplete picture of human functioning Empirical study of cognition ? 1956 Chomsky ? new model of language Simon and Newell ? problem solving Miller ? memory

Psychology: Frontiers and Applications

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Chapter 1 ? Psychology: The Science of Behaviour Psychology - The scientific study of behaviour and the factors that influence it. Taking into account Biological, Individual and Environmental factors. Basic and Applied Science ? Two types of research:o Basic research: Knowledge gained purely for its own sake. The goals are to describe how people behave and to identify factors that influence it. Research maybe carried out in lab or real world ? e.g. Robert Cave ? Jigsaw case study - showed how competition leads to hostility but could be reduced by making them dependent on each other.o Applied research: Knowledge gained to solve specific practical problems. Uses principles discovered via basic research to solve practical problems. Goals of Psychology

Evolutionary Psychology

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Evolutionary Psychology (sparknotes.com) Evolutionary psychology uses evolutionary theory to explain similarities in psychological characteristics. According to evolutionary psychologists, patterns of behavior have evolved through natural selection, in the same way that physical characteristics have evolved. Because of natural selection,adaptive behaviors, or behaviors that increase reproductive success, are kept and passed on from one generation to the next. Mating Behavior

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