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What are some of the current challenges of life? - Answer-Personal choices, careers, your purpose, how to achieve what you want. What is the sense or search for direction in people? - Answer-They desire self realization; wanting something to believe in. Also, they search for quick answers to give themselves direction. What are some issues with self help books? - Answer-They often consist of psychobabble; containing vague and meaningless talk. The advice is usually not based off of scientifi...

what are 4 examples of a paradox - Answer-Time (time savings from technology vs. not enough time) Economics (Abundance vs. dissatisfaction) Choice (appeal vs. regret) Technology (progress vs. devistation) 2 types of cultural influences - Answer-Individualism Collectivism 3 ways people search for direction - Answer-- Self-realization programs (scientology) - cults - popular media (Dr. phil) what is Psychology? - Answer-the science that studies behavior and the physiological and mental p...

The psychological processes through which people manage or cope with the demands and challenges of everyday life. - adjustment Efforts to predict one's emotional reactions to future events. - affective forecasting Any overt (observable) response or activity by an organism. - behavior An in-depth investigation of an individual subject. - case study The branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders. - clinical psychology Subjects in...

authority, common sense, intuition, rationalism, empiricism (best), personal experience - ways of knowing when someone influential says so - authority what everyone knows, backed by personal experience - common sense "feeling of knowing" something but not quite sure where the knowledge came from - intuition a priori (before results) method; knowledge derived from reasoning or logic - rationalism knowledge from experience or observation; relies on data (same results over and over again) -...

There are two lines at the post office. You assume that people are mailing packages are in the first line and and that people mailing envelopes are in the second line. Your alternative hypothesis is that older people are in the first line and the younger people are in the second line. The next person who walks into the post office is a young person with a package. She stand in the first line what just happened? - Answer-Strong inference Generalization can occur across which of the following...

According to lecture, which of the following is NOT a function of science? - Answer-dissemination Which regarding the scientific process is FALSE? - Answer-Research can establish whether theories are right or wrong Experimental personality research... - Answer-uses a combination of experimental and correlational methods Researchers find that students who arrive to lecture early get better grades than students who arrive late. Which MUST be true? - Answer-school performance predicts school ...

What is development? - Answer-The pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through life span. Includes growth, but also decline and dying. What are the traditional views of development? - Answer-Extensive change from birth to adolescence Little or no change during adulthood Decline in old age What is life-span perspective? - Answer-Developmental change occurs throughout childhood and adulthood What is the current maximum life span that is recorded? - Answer-12...

A priori method - A way of knowing, proposed by Charles Peirce, in which a person develops a belief by reasoning and reaching agreement with others who are convinced of the merits of the reasoned argument. Leading question - In a survey, a question asked in such a way that the answer desired by the questioner is clear. Simple effects analysis - Following an ANOVA, a follow-up test to a significant interaction, comparing individual cells. concurrent validity - the extent to which two measu...

Vygotsky's sociocultural theory - This is the transmission of culture to a new generation (values, beliefs, customs, and skills) Social interaction is necessary (cooperative dialogues with more knowledgeable members of society) you with others how you should learn. Human Development - a field of study devoted to understand consistency and change throughout the lifespan environment contexts for development - is unique combinations of personal (genetic) and environment circumstances can res...

John Locke - -At first children are blank slates, that can be molded in any direction by parents and teachers. Jena-Jacques Rousseau - -The child as a noble savage. -Endowed by a beneficent nature with nascent reason morals, ethics and all the other noble attributes of the enlightened humans, which unfold naturally given basic nature. -Process is "built in" Nature trumps nurture. How did Charles Darwin approach the study of young children - -Took data through the use of "Baby biographi...