Chap. 9 Psychological Assessment: The use of specified procedures to evaluate abilities‚ behaviors and personal qualities‚ measurement of individual differences because the majority of assessments specify how an individual is different from or similar to other people on a given dimension Sir Francis Galton: Hereditary genius in 1869‚ Galton’s Ideas of Intelligence: Differences are quantifiable‚ Differences form a bell shaped curve or normal distribution‚ Intelligence(mental ability) can be measure
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REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM Reproductive System A system of sex organs within an organism which work together for the purpose of sexual reproduction. Many nonliving substances such as fluids‚ hormones‚ and pheromones are also important accessories to there productive system. Sexual reproduction produces new individuals - Gametes (sperm & egg) formed by testes and ovaries - Fertilization produces one cell (a zygote)with one set of chromosomes from each parent - Creates genetic variation . Gonads produce
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| Renaissance Humanism | Humanism is the term generally applied to the predominant social philosophy and intellectual and literary currents of the period from 1400 to 1650. The return to favor of the pagan classics stimulated the philosophy of secularism‚ the appreciation of worldly pleasures‚ and above all intensified the assertion of personal independence and individual expression. Zeal for the classics was a result as well as a cause of the growing secular view of life. Expansion of trade
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What is AIDS? Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (slowly-replicating retrovirus) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)‚ a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive (1). A virus is a piece of genetic material‚ RNA or DNA‚ surrounded by a protein coat. To replicate‚ a virus must infect a cell and direct its cellular machinery to produce new viruses. A virus cannot
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What is psychology? The scientific study of behavior and mental processes Development of psychology as a science Wilhelm Wundt founded the first psychology laboratory. Student of Wudnt ’s‚ E.B. Titchner named Wundt ’s approach structuralism. William James gave field an "American Stamp‚" invented functionalism Contemporary approaches to psychology Biological Approach (focus on the body) Neuroscience Behavioral Approach (behavioral responses and their environmental determinants) Psychodynamic
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women’s cause Literature 19th century Victor Hugo (Hunchback of Notre Dame) ANNE FAVIER-TOWNSEND Alexandre Dumas (Count of Monte Cristo) Literature 19th century Honoré de Balzac (La comédie Humaine) Emile Zola (L’assomoir‚ Germinal) INTRODUCTION
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PSYC1001 – Notes Introduction & Psych Perspectives What is Psychology? Psychology is the scientific investigation of mental (thinking‚ remembering and feeling) and behaviour. Understanding a person requires attention to the individual’s biology‚ psychological experience and cultural context. Behaviour – Overt (observable) actions; Physiological correlates of actions Mental Processes – Thoughts (memories‚ imagery‚ concepts); Emotions (fear‚ happiness‚ anger‚ arousal); interactions between
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson According to a famous philosopher‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson : • “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. “ There is a good reason they call these ceremonies commencement exercises. Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning. A year of hard work has resulted in this moment‚ so join
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Alfredo Salazar 1/28/2013 What have you learned? Chapter 1 1. What makes the study of human development a science? It seeks to understand how and why people‚ all kinds of people‚ everywhere‚ of every age‚ change overtime. 3. Why have recommendations regarding the sleeping circumstances of infants changed? Every year until the mid-1990‚ thousands of 2 to 4 month olds died of SIDS. Susan Beal hypothesized that sleeping position might matter‚ as a result‚ SIDS rate dramatically decreased.
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1. Definition Personality: A Psychological Interpretation: Allport’s first book; devoted an entire chapter to a review of the many different notions of personality offered by theologians‚ philosophers‚ poets‚ sociologists‚ and psychologists‚ and concluded that an adequate synthesis of existing definitions might be expressed in the phrase "what a man really is" ? Allport defines personality as the “the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique
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