[PSY2105] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (13 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Christopher Boddy

Document Summary

June 3, 2014 week 1: we have emotions for survival; used to appraise a situation; prepares us for action. Impact thinking process: ex. relationship between anxiety and performance, tend to remember things that have high emotional content; much more vivid memories for these events. People who do not have much empathy tend to be much less desirable: social referencing: to look at someone to read their emotion/expression; kids learn to react to situations through this method; ex. Innate: predictable shortly after birth, way of responding to situations; how quickly and strongly a child responds, becomes stable over time. Cannot wear jeans; do not like the way they feel: tick-tock of a clock; the sound is constantly bothering them, fire alarm, 3 issues in development, nature vs nurture. Diathesis stress-model: genetic predisposition, continuity vs discontinuity. Do traits that occur as a child stay with one throughout life or do people change: universal vs. context-specific, the biopsychosocial framework, sociocultural.