Introduction to Psychology
Introduction to Psychology
Choose a teratogen and tell us what category of teratogen it is (drugs, environmental factors, infection, or maternal disease), the name of the teratogen you chose, and the effects it can have on a developing human.
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2. How much alcohol is safe, according to researchers, during pregnancy?
3. Summarize the work the Harlows did with their wire monkey mama and the cloth monkey mama. What was the set-up and what were the findings?
4. Choose one of Erikson’s eight stages and identify the age the stage covers, the conflict that needs to be resolved within that stage (the name of the stage itself), and describe a positive resolution to the stage and a negative resolution to that stage.
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Age:
Positive Resolution:
Negative Resolution:
5. How do the intelligence types change over the lifespan? Your answer should include both crystallized and fluid intelligence.
6. Compare and contrast two of the parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, or uninvolved).
7. Summarize drive-reduction theory, using the terms homeostasis and equilibrium in your answer.
8. Discuss the hypothalamus’ role in mediating hunger, using the terms lateral hypothalamus and ventromedial hypothalamus in your explanation.
9. Imagine that you are swimming and you think you see a shark. Discuss the James-Lange theory of emotion and what changes are happening to your body/mind, in what order, vs. what the Cannon-Bard model would say. Be specific.
10. Apply one of Freud’s Ego Defense Mechanisms to the following situation: a young mother, Anne, discovers her cholesterol levels are dangerously high. Her ego feels anxiety, as the superego wants her to go back to the doctor for a follow-up and her id prefers to ignore the test results. Choose a defense mechanism, list it here, and provide an example of what that might look like in this instance.
11.Rotter described an internal locus of control and an external locus. If a bestselling author points to her career success as reflective of her hard work, not luck, which locus would we say she had?
12. Bandura pointed to the importance of self-efficacy, or the idea that those who exhibit high self-efficacy (high levels of beliefs over our own abilities and effectiveness in reaching goals) often achieve greater success at work and persevere more in difficult situations. The rats-driving-cars study went hand-in-hand with this, as the rats who could drive the cars had higher self-efficacy (effectiveness in reaching their goals). What did we find in the driving rats’ fecal matter, vs. the passenger/non-driving rats?
13.Apply the findings from those who live in the “Blue Zone” to your life – identify two of the characteristics from the table that you already apply or can apply in your life, using specifics. (For example, if you hit the RecPlex for a spinning class every week, the characteristic would be “Innate Movement” and then you’d write that you go to spin class.)
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14.List three professions that risk burnout and what factors may contribute to that burnout.
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