Understanding Learning: Processes and Concepts

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Learning: Experience is the key to learning.

Learning by association: Connect naturally occurring events in sequence.

External expertise: The coming of sensation and perception.

Inner experience: The one that comes from the mind and has to do with the way we feel the world.

Projection: defense mechanism that is free from internal and painful emotions put into a person from the outside world.

Additional Series: Genetic predisposition and appropriate experience.

Item 2

Freud: I think there

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Key Child Development Terms: Definitions and Stages

Key Child Development Terms

Kangaroo Care: Method of skin-to-skin contact in which a newborn is laid face down between the mother’s breasts for an hour or so at a time after birth.

Parturition: The act or process of giving birth.

Temperament: Characteristic disposition or style of approaching and reacting to situations.

Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt

Disorganized-Disoriented Attachment: Pattern in which an infant, after separation from the primary caregiver, shows contradictory, repetitious, or misdirected

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Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders

F60.6 Avoidant Personality Disorder (301.82)

A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inferiority, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:

  • 1. Avoids work or activities that involve significant interpersonal contact because of fear of criticism, disapproval, or rejection.
  • 2. Is reluctant to get involved with people unless certain of being liked.
  • 3. Shows restraint within
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Personality Theories and Human Nature Insights

Personality Theories: A Comprehensive Look

1.6 Strategy

Definition of personality: The pattern of characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that distinguishes one person from another.

Major Personality Theories

  1. Psychoanalytic Theory: We are motivated by psychosexual forces.
    • Id: The dominant force in personality; the deep, inaccessible part of personality that is devoid of values, ethics, and logic.
    • Superego: The values of society presented to the child through punishments and rewards.
    • Ego: The
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Mind-Body Problem: Philosophy and Neuroscience

The Mind-Body Problem: Philosophy and Neuroscience

1.1 Mind, Brain, and Consciousness

Studies in philosophy, biology, and medicine consider humans as a material part of nature. As living organisms, we develop functions that allow us to survive independently: to live, feel, and know through the body. The body is an indispensable tool for us to live.

The Mind: The mind encompasses the set of intelligence activities and human capacity, processing information from the outside world and conducting vital

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Understanding Human Sexuality: A Holistic Approach

Human Sexuality: A Holistic Perspective

Introduction

We are not only biologically sexed, but our psyche, social organization, and culture are also deeply influenced by sex. From birth, we are assigned sex-specific names, clothes, toys, and activities. Even our hobbies, thoughts, and desires are often categorized by sex. Before a child is aware of their own sexual identity, society assigns a gendered role that impacts nearly every aspect of their life.

Different societies and cultures assign specific

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