PY 101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)
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Instincts: simple reflexes and a limited repertoire of innate behaviors. Influenced by genetic programming: learning: experiences produce a lasting change in behavior or mental processes, lasting change- behavior/mental processes. Piaget"s stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor- infancy - sensory, preoperational - early childhood, concrete operational - middle childhood, formal operational - adolescence. Psuedo-psychology: unsupported psychological beliefs masquerading as scientific truth. The endocrine system: hormones: communication channels among the glands of the endocrine system. Lobes of the cerebral cortex: frontal lobe: movement and thinking, parietal lobe: sensory- touch and feel, occipital lobe: sensory - vision, temporal lobe: sounds. Cerebral dominance: cerebral dominance: tendency for each hemisphere to lead in different tasks. Instincts: simple reflexes and a limited repertoire of innate behaviors: influenced by genetic programming, learning: experiences produce a lasting change in behavior or mental processes, lasting change- behavior/mental processes, influenced by behavior and vice versa.
