Psyc 331 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

How many Upper division general education classes/units do you need to graduate? - Correct Answer 9 units No concentration /General studies v.s picking a different concentration - Correct Answer No concentration: wishing to choose courses from different concentrations; Different concentration: less generic; help take classes you want to take instead of hate; more specific knowledge for desired career; some classes help get certifications Csuf kinesiology vs All the other CSU'S and univer...

Trait - Correct Answer Dimension of personality used to categorize people according to the degree to which they manifest a particular characteristic. - Relatively stable over time - Stable across situations Research within the trait approach relies heavily on: - Correct Answer Correlational designs. Gordon Allport - Correct Answer -Identified two general strategies to use when investigating personality: 1. Nomothetic approach to identify common traits (Traits selected by researcher for ...

measurement - Correct Answer a systematic way of assigning numbers/ names to observation how do we measure variables - Correct Answer operational definitions a scale or type of measurements operational definition - Correct Answer -self report: own thoughts, feelings, and actions -observational: observing people's behavior in the environment in which it typically occur -physiological: measure people's characteristics like intelligence or personality a scale of measurement is based ...

joint attention - Correct Answer other people are intentional agents (they have intentions & the child can coordinate with them), 9 months triadic behaviors - Correct Answer gaze following (stronger language skills), pointing (before 9-12 months babies look at the pointer's hand, some by 9 months, most by 14 months), imitative learning, social referencing social referencing - Correct Answer tendency to look to a significant person in an ambiguous situation for clarifying information th...

Explain: Characteristics of anorexia nervosa. - Correct Answer - Restriction of energy intake relative to requirements, leading to a significantly low body weight in the context of age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health - Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat or persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain - Disturbed by one's body weight or shape, self-worth influenced by body weight or shape, or persistent lack of recognition of seriousness of low bodyweigh...

Social Cognition - Correct Answer -thought suppression -how we think about the social world 2 Ways of social processing - Correct Answer Explicit and Implicit Explicit processing - Correct Answer -conscious -typically effortful -typically intentional -ex: complex math problem Implicit processing - Correct Answer -non conscious -effortless -automatic -ex: understanding language Explicit vs. Implicit - Correct Answer -both: pulses and minuses -implicit: fast and easy, inflexibl...

Valuing process in infants and adults - Correct Answer Infants: Organismic valuing process. Signals from the body, self-reliance, internal frame of reference. Adults: More complex (Roger's Theory) Fully Functioning Persons - Correct Answer Self actualizing people. Characteristics include: openness to experience, existential living, trust of their organisms, creativity, and leading an enriched life. (Rogers) Roger's view of education - Correct Answer Education establishments are aut...

Perception - Correct Answer Process of organizing and interpreting our senses perceptual set - Correct Answer What we expect to see based on our past experiences imperfect memory - Correct Answer Distortion of data: use of imagination to fill in the blanks How is truth found - Correct Answer by discovery and careful study Repressed memory - Correct Answer Memory that is unconsciously blocked due to the memory being highly stressful or traumatic Assuming - Correct Answer taking som...

What are the basic concepts in Cognitive Development? cognition and development Structure refers to the mental processes happening within, which determines a particular function to occur function of mental structures promotes them to change cognition is a mental process used to think and solve problems and can be observed through behavior patterns. ex. children solving math problems and how they can reason what they are thinking through their behavior. Development is formed through the relat...

Hans Eysenck - Correct Answer personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes, used introversion/extroversion What are the three basic personality dimensions? - Correct Answer 1. extraversion-introversion 2. neuroticism 3. psychoticism Extraversion - Correct Answer A personality dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and assertive Introversion - Correct Answer dimension of personality in which people tend to withdraw from excessive sti...