PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Erogenous Zone, Incubation Period, Feral Child

• School: Tulane University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Bethany Rollins

Document Summary

Thinking: manipulating and transforming information held in memory: cognitive psychologists: study the mental processes involved with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating, uses working memory. Language: two essential characteristics, symbols: words, sounds, letters, signs, and gestures, grammar: rules for combining symbols in meaningful ways, stages of language development, babbling: first language a baby makes, meaningless syllable repetitions. Jeanie: 13 year old child tied to chair for her whole life and deprived of human contact by her father: never able to construct grammatically correct sentences, learned a few words. Louis terman (professor at stanford) adapted binet-simon scale for use in the. Iq tests are reliable around the age of 7, not reliable before age of 4. Identical twins have more similar iqs than fraternal twins: environmental influences have an impact. Motivation: a need or desire that energizes behavior and directs it towards a goal.