What do evolutionary psychologists study?
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Explain how patterns of behavior that characterize all humans continued to
be carried on due to the survival value these characteristics provided over
the history of the species
Self-Esteem
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Definition: The degree to which a person thinks he is good or bad, worthy
or unworthy
,Antisocial Personality Disorder
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• Definition: an extreme pattern of deceitful, manipulative, and sometime
dangerous behavior
Habituation
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o Definition: the decrease in response to a stimulus on repeated
applications; simplest kind of learning
o Example: winning the lottery everyday, not as exciting
Generalizability of Research Studies
• Who do researchers tend to study?
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• Gender bias - women are more likely to volunteer and show up and
Shows versus no-shows
• Cohort effects: the tendency of a group of people living at a particular tie
to be different in some way form those who lived earlier or later
Perceptual Defense
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, • Definition The process of failing to perceive stimuli that an individual might
find disturbing or threatening
• What are diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder?
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o Rapid mood shifts, uncontrollable anger, self-destructive acts, self-
damaging behaviors, identity disturbance, chronic emptiness, unstable
relationships, fear of abandonment, and confusion and feelings of unreality
The Empirical Method
- purpose
- example
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• Purpose: identify items based on how people in pre-identified groups
respond
o Example: I prefer a shower to a bath - this is correlated with empathy
What is an example of a high self-monitor?
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Explain how patterns of behavior that characterize all humans continued to
be carried on due to the survival value these characteristics provided over
the history of the species
Self-Esteem
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Definition: The degree to which a person thinks he is good or bad, worthy
or unworthy
,Antisocial Personality Disorder
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• Definition: an extreme pattern of deceitful, manipulative, and sometime
dangerous behavior
Habituation
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o Definition: the decrease in response to a stimulus on repeated
applications; simplest kind of learning
o Example: winning the lottery everyday, not as exciting
Generalizability of Research Studies
• Who do researchers tend to study?
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• Gender bias - women are more likely to volunteer and show up and
Shows versus no-shows
• Cohort effects: the tendency of a group of people living at a particular tie
to be different in some way form those who lived earlier or later
Perceptual Defense
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, • Definition The process of failing to perceive stimuli that an individual might
find disturbing or threatening
• What are diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder?
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o Rapid mood shifts, uncontrollable anger, self-destructive acts, self-
damaging behaviors, identity disturbance, chronic emptiness, unstable
relationships, fear of abandonment, and confusion and feelings of unreality
The Empirical Method
- purpose
- example
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• Purpose: identify items based on how people in pre-identified groups
respond
o Example: I prefer a shower to a bath - this is correlated with empathy
What is an example of a high self-monitor?
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