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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...

Stress - Correct Answer organism's internal biological and psychological responses to external demands A by-product of poor coping Stress Factors - Correct Answer Children are extremely vulnerable genetic makeup exposure to early childhood stressors individual stress tolerance stressful experiences (someone who is constantly stressed might change their way of thinking or evaluating a situation) Characteristics of Stressors - Correct Answer severity chronicity timing degree of impa...

projective test - Correct Answer a personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics objective test - Correct Answer unambiguous self-reports Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) - Correct Answer a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes reliability - Correct Answer consistency of measurement validity - Correct An...