[PSY 301] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (24 pages long!)
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Exam ll review: three questions asked about development. Chapter 5: gender, the socially constructed norms, roles, and characteristics (attitudes, feelings, behaviors) by which a culture defines male and female, biology of gender, puberty, adolescence begins with puberty (sexual maturation). Puberty occurs earlier in females (11 yrs) than males (13 yrs). The only characteristics out of 398 that showed large differences were in: Chapter 7: sensation compared to perception, sensation the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent (store) stimuli from our environment. Fairly passive (bottom-up: perception the process by selecting, organizing and interpreting sensory information so that we can recognize meaningful stimuli. Active process (top down: top down / bottom up. Long wavelengths low pitched sounds, reddish colors: touch the non-specific pressure receptors only five when there is a change. The (cid:373)essage is o(cid:374)l(cid:455) tu(cid:396)(cid:374)ed o(cid:374) (cid:449)he(cid:374) the(cid:396)e is a (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge i(cid:374) sti(cid:373)ulus.