AP Psychology Chapter 4 Review
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Chapter 4 Review Sheet for AP Psychology
- Attachment – connection parents have with their kids – thought to be caused by nature keeping kids cared for and all caregivers – not due to nourishment, but touch
- Egocentric – Idea kids have in preschool that everything sees them through them
- Secure attachment – Kids will wonder from their parents – when parents leave will sad and will seek contact when they return
- Unsecured attachment – Kids will stay with their parents - when parent leave will not be upset – effects seen later in life (the sad monkey)
- Object permanence – Kids under 8 months – when something goes out of sight it is out of mind
- Teratogen - chemicals and viruses that can enter embryo and fetus and cause harm
- Responsive parenting – parents that respond to their kids needs all of time
- Rooting reflex – reflex babies have – starts when touching their cheeks
- Primary sex characteristics - develop at puberty – learn about them in health class
- Brain chemistry -
- Formal operational – last state of Piaget attachment series – 12 and up
- Kohlberg and his critics – moral ladder – 3 stages – financial level and gender matters
- Prenatal development – development in the womb – zygote (conception to 2 weeks), embryo (2 weeks to 8 weeks), fetus (9 weeks to birth) – can be harmed by fetal alcohol syndrome and tetragons
- Accommodation – adapting to new information to change schema
- Assimilation – adding new info to schema
- Habituation – becoming used to it
- Estrogen – female hormone creates secondary sex characteristics
- Gut level intuition – immediate moral reaction
- Crystallized intelligence –factual information, increases as ages
- Cognitive development
- Conservation of volume – when children are able to know that an upside down beaker does not gain liquid
- Autism – mental disease, people who can not relate socially, more internally focused
- Stability vs. Change – as we get older our life is a pattern of stability vs change – stability of personality starts around 2 – temperament more stable; consciousness too (but can be stable relative to peers as they age)
- Nature or Nurture – concern if genes or environment
- Menarche – first period
- Development Psychology – area of psychology concerned with human development (this chapter)
- Preconvention – early stage of morality – only do things to not get into trouble
- Maturation – growth through stages
- Attachment – organisms bond with each other; young children to their caregivers; cause of stranger anxiety
- Abstract reasoning – ability for people to have complex ideas; can see things that are not their
- Identity – sense one has of them self
- Post Conventional – last stage of morality; do things one thinks is right; regardless of the law
- Secure attachment – feel comfortable with their mother
- Marriage bonds – becoming weaker
- Marrying at an older age – is happening; prolonging adolescent period
- Trust – feeling one has about another human’s ability to execute actions; 1. Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.
- Imprinting – what animals do to the 1st thing they see
- Autonomy – ablitiy to act on their own
- Newborn and their mom’s voice – are attached to it
- Stranger anxiety – babies not wanting to be with people other than people they know (are not familiar with)
- Theory of mind – ability to see things from another person’s POV
- Mental retardation
- Role confusion
- Authoritative parenting – strict parenting
- Fluid intelligence – intelligence of reasoning – decreases over time
- Car accidents and the elderly – are far more likely to happen because bad eyesight in old people
- Emotional stability
- Self Awareness
- Conservation
- Social Clock – idea that events for adults happen in a certain order and time – decreasing importance because of increased social freedoms
- Basic trust – babies gain about the world if they are brought up properly – if not gained while they are young – may be permentatly lost
- Vygotsky and his research – social interaction is a fundamental part of learning – requires social interaction
- Familiarity – what babies gain about the world as they age