PSYC 355 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What Causes Attraction to Others?-Basic human need to be included -makes sense evolutionarily (basic human need) -no matter what our personalities are like -introverted people are uncertain about the benefits of interaction, but if you ask them how they feel after interacting with someone, they are happier than when they are alone -extroverts are much happier after they hang out with people Ostracism-Acts of excluding or ignoring -In experiments, ostracism is manipulated by: 1.) feedbac...

Determ-9fine cognitive neuroscience. Briefly describe the following methods used by neuroscientists. Brain Lesions According to the first chapter in your textbook, research in cognitive neuroscience .. Often obtains brain images while people are working on a cognitive task. A researcher wants to study how peoples attention shifts when they see a visual stimulus in an unexpected portion of a screen that they are viewing; this attention shift occurs in just a fraction of a second. Whic...

7 themes/ fundamental questions in dev psych1. how do nature and nurture together shape development 2. how do individuals shape their own development (active child) 3. in what ways is development continuous, and in what ways is it discontinuous 4. what are the mechanisms of change? 5. how does the sociocultural context influence development? 6. How do individuals become so different from each other? 7. How can research promote human health and well being?

Nature of Families (what are they)2+ people, where one of which is the homeowner, related by birth, adoption or marriage, reside together Function of families1. Survival of offspring 2. Economic function 3. Cultural training and socialization Family dynamics perspectiveLooks at family as a social system and how it operates as a whole; Family members and relationships among them are interdependent and reciprocally influence each other Socializationprocess through which children acquire...

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Cognition 10e Test Bank Chapter 4: Working Memory Questions and Answers CHAPTER 4: Working Memory

Cognition 10e Test Bank Chapter 9: Language I: Language Comprehension CHAPTER 9: Language I: Introduction to Language and Language Comprehension