Chapter 9 Psychology Thinking? Cognition: All mental activities associated with processing understanding and communicating Concept: A mental grouping of similar object events and people Prototype: mental imagine that incorporate all the features that we associate with the concept How do we solve problems? Algorithms: Step by step procedure that guarantees a solution. How does it work? Heuristics: Quicker‚ more efficient but more prone to error. “Rule of Thumb” Strategy Insight: When
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Introduction: Human rights are freedoms established by custom or international agreement that impose standards of conduct on all nations. Human rights are distinct from civil liberties‚ which are freedoms established by the law of a particular state and applied by that state in its own jurisdiction. Human rights are moral principles that set out certain standards of human behavior‚ and are regularly protected as legal rights in national and international law. They are "commonly understood as
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Summary of Results for Celia Ngale Site Title: MyPsychLab for Wood‚ World of Psychology‚ 7e Book Title: World of Psychology‚ 7/e Book Author: Wood Location on Site: Chapters > Chapter 5: Learning > Pre-Test Date/Time Submitted: March 29‚ 2012 at 3:10 AM (UTC/GMT) Overall Score: 24% of 25 questions Topic Score Proficient? Classical Conditioning: The Original View 3 of 10 No; See pages 151-156 Classical Conditioning: The Contemporary View 1 of 1 Yes
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Human Development Index (HDI) The first Human Development Report introduced a new way of measuring development by combining indicators of life expectancy‚ educational attainment and income into a composite human development index‚ the HDI. The breakthrough for the HDI was the creation of a single statistic which was to serve as a frame of reference for both social and economic development. The HDI sets a minimum and a maximum for each dimension‚ called goalposts‚ and then shows where each country
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he called: “Enemies‚ Spies‚ Colonialists‚ Neutral‚ and Allies” (2016‚ p. 135). These five models are formed based on the variety of views that people hold about psychology and theology. Because people hold a variety of orientations in these two fields it creates many combinations of integration. The Enemy model is the view that psychology and theology cannot work together. The Spies model uses which ever orientation is most effective in the moment to promote the individual well-being‚ which means
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7. Margaret Floy Washburn – Ph.d. student of Tichner‚ 1st woman to get ph.d in psychology‚ APA’s 2nd femal president‚ denied joining experimental psychology because of her gender 8. B.F. Skinner - behaviorist 9. Aristotle – believed the opposite of Socrates and Plato; Plato’s student‚ believed that we get knowledge through observing our world 10. Wilhelm Wundt – father of modern/scientific psychology‚ conducted first psychological experiment in 1979‚ intended to learn basic elements
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FALL 2011 Psychology 100 Final Exam Notes Greta Epstein Chapter 2: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY What is Scientific Inquiry? * A way of finding answers to empirical questions- questions that are answered by observing and measuring * 4 basic goals: * Describing what happens * Predicting when it happens * Controlling what causes it to happen * Explaining why it happens
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Chapter 9: Development Across the Lifespan 1. Lifespan Developmental Psychology - Branch of psychology concerned with the systematic physical‚ cognitive‚ and psychosocial processes that lead to these changes that occur throughout life 2. Basic Issues in Developmental Psychology a. Nature and Nurture i. Nature - Theory that holds that physical and cognitive development is genetically determined ii. Nurture - Theory that holds that physical and cognitive development is determined
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different steps in the food-proccessing industry‚ usually through the ownership by large corporations. Agricultural Density The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture Agricultural Revoluion The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering. Agriculture The deliberate effort to modify a portion of the Earth’s surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenence
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Textbook Study Notes CHAPTER 1 – INTRO TO COG PSYCH Cognitive Psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind The Mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception‚ attention‚ memory‚ emotions‚ language‚ thinking and reasoning. It is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals. Donder’s Pioneering Experiment He was interested in determining how long it takes a person to make a decision
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