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| Our awareness of ourselves and our environment. |
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The inability to see an object or a person in our midst.
Ex: Gorilla |
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| Occur on a 24 hour cycle and include sleep and wakefulness. Termed our "biological clock," it can be altered by artificial light. |
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| Deepest stage. Where you sleep walk and sleep talk. |
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| Fifth stage of sleep (REM) |
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| Breathing increases, eyes move, and dreaming occurs |
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Fatigue
Impared Concentration
Emotional Irritability
Depressed Immune System
Obesity
Greater Vulnerability |
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| A persistent inability to fall asleep |
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| Overpowering urge to fall asleep that may occur while talking or standing up |
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| Failure to breathe when asleep |
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Anyone can experience it
It cannot help recall of forgotten events
Cannot force people to act against will
Can be therapuetic
Can alleviate pain |
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Drugs that reduce neural activity and slow body functions.
Examples:
Alcohol
Barbituates
Opiates |
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Drugs that excite nueral activity and speed up body functions.
Examples:
Caffiene
Nicotine
Cocaine
Ecstacy
Amphetamines
Methamphetamines |
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Induces immediate euphoria followed by a crash.
Crack (a form of this) can be smoked.
Other forms can be sniffed or injected. |
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| Four Developments of life span |
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Physical development
Cognitive Development
Social Development
Moral Development |
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| Chemicals or viruses that can enter the placenta and harm the developing fetus |
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The development of the brain unfolds based on genetic instructions, causing various bodily and mental functions to occur in sequence- standing before walking, babbling before talking.
Experience has little effect on this. |
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| Actions or mental representations that organize knowlege |
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| Incorporating new information into existing schemas |
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| Adjusting existing schemas to fit new information and experiences |
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| Grouping isolated behaviors and thoughts in a higher-order system |
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| A shift, a resolution of conflict to reach a balance |
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| babies take in the world by looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, and grasping. Children younger than six months do not grasp object permanence (objects that are out of sight are also out of mind) |
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From age 2 to about 6 or 7, kids cannot perform mental operations
example: The water level in the flasks |
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Cannot percieve things from someone else's point of view
Ex: Preschool children are egocentric |
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| Parents impose rules and expect obedience |
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| Parents submit to children's demandss |
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| Parents are demanding but responsive to their children |
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| Before age 9, children show morality to avoid punishment or gain reward |
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| By early adolescence, social rules and laws are imposed by others |
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| Postconventional morality |
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| morality is internal and follows personally percieved ethical principles. When is it okay to break the rules? |
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