Psychology Unit Study Guide

Created by Olive Roberts

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TermDefinition
Id
Wants immediate pleasure
Ego
Reality/middle ground
Superego
Moral voice
Freud's Stages
Oral = Dependance Anal = Control Phallic = Latency = Genital =
Erikson's psychosocial conflicts
- Trust vs Mistrust - Autonomy vs Shame & Doubt - Initiative vs Guilt - Industry vs Inferiority - Identity vs Role confusion
Frontal Lobe
Planning, impulse control.
Parietal Lobe
Touch, spatial awareness.
Temporal Lobe
Memory, hearing.
Occipital Lobe
Vision.
Amygdala
Fear, danger detection.
Hippocampus
Memory formation.
Prefrontal Cortex
Judgment, reasoning.
Neurotransmitters
Chemical messages between brain cells.
Cerebellum
Balance, movement.
Schema
Your mental file folders for people, places, ideas
Assimilation
Fitting new information into what you already think.
Accommodation
Changing your thinking when new information doesn't fit.
Vygotsky's ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development)
What you can do with help but not yet alone.
Scaffolding
Support from a more knowledgeable other (teacher, peer, coach) that is slowly removed Example