EXAM UNIVERSITY OF UTAH NEWEST
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the science of behavior and mental
Psychology
processes
how the body and brain enable emotions,
memories, and sensory experiences
Neuroscience
-Might study brain circuits that cause us to
perspective
be red in the face and 'hot under the
collar'
-how the natural selection of traits has
Evolutionary promoted the survival of genes
perspective -Analyze how anger facilitated the survival
of our ancestors' genes
, -how our genes and our environment
influence our individual differences
Behavior genetics
-Studies how heredity and experience
perspective
influence our individual differences in
temperament
-how behavior springs from unconscious
psychodynamic drives and conflicts, modern freed
perspective -Might view an outburst ass an outlet for
unconscious hostility
-how we learn and observable responses
Behavioral
-Might attempt to determine what triggers
perspective
angry responses or aggressive acts
-how behavior and thinking vary across
situations and cultures, the government
Social cultural and racism effects behavior, community
perspective effects behavior
-Might explore how expressions of anger
vary across cultural contexts
what extent particular aspects of our
behavior are inherited and what is
nurture-nature
acquired. Inherited would be genetics and
debate
acquired would be the environment you
grow up in
, bias or preference that makes an
individual not achieve randomness
- if you dont smoke and you hate being
around it, you wont hang out with people
selection effect
who smoke
- if you played a lot of sports at a young
age and were around sports a lot,
chances are you will grow up to be sporty
-0-2, babies take in their world through
their senses and actions, through looking,
Sensorimotor stage
hearing, touching, and grasping.
-Object permanence, stranger anxiety
-2-7, stage where a child learns to use
language but does not yet comprehend
concrete logic
The thing where you pour water in
different sized cups but it's the same
amount of water and the kids think that
Preoperational one cup has more or less water
stage -Do you have a brother?
Yes
-What's his name?
Jim
-Does Jim have a brother?
No
-Pretend play, egocentrism
-7-11, children gain the mental operations
that enabled them to think logically about
Concrete
concrete operational events
operational stage
-Conservation, mathematical
transformations