PSYA02H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Falsifiability, Sampling Bias
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Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi)- reliable valid personality test. Criticisms of personality inventories: 1)test administrator can be biased. Ego-allo(cid:449)s us to deal (cid:449)ith life"s pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)al de(cid:373)a(cid:374)ds. The human experience begins with conception, not birth. Teratogens: external agents that can cause damage or death during prenatal development. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (fasd)- facial deformities, intellectual disability, attention disability, behavior disorders. Cephalo(cid:272)audal rule: top to (cid:271)otto(cid:373)"- motor skills emerge from head to feet. Proximodistal rule: (cid:862) i(cid:374)side- to outside(cid:863) des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)es (cid:373)otor skills to e(cid:373)erge fro(cid:373) (cid:272)e(cid:374)ter to periphery. Criticisms of piaget: he underestimated the abilities of infants, development is more continuous that he theorized, he had an egocentric view of development but it is more sociocentric, he did not theorize about how cognitive changes occur. John bowlby: attachment theory- infants require secure base. 4 types of attachment: secure attachment, insecure attachment, insecure/resistant. The a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to appl(cid:455) k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge to (cid:373)a(cid:374)ipulate o(cid:374)e"s e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. The ability to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria.