Examples of generativity in the following topics:
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- Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by chronic anxiety that is excessive, uncontrollable, and often irrational.
- Specifically, about 30% of the variance for generalized anxiety disorder can been attributed to genes.
- According to these theories, generalized anxiety may serve as a distraction from remembering painful childhood experiences.
- GAD is generally chronic, but it can be managed, or even eliminated, with the proper treatment.
- Summarize the diagnostic criteria, etiology, and treatment of generalized anxiety disorder
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- Human language is unique because it is generative, recursive, and has displacement.
- Specifically, human language is unique on the planet because it
has the qualities of generativity, recursion, and displacement.
- Human language is generative, which means that it can
communicate an infinite number of ideas.
- Human language is also modality-independent—that is, it is
possible to use the features of displacement, generativity, and recursion
across multiple modes.
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- If the study's data and conclusions cannot be applied to the general population, including general events or scenarios, then the experiment's results are only relevant to that experiment, and nothing more.
- The smaller the sample size for an experiment, the less applicable the results will be to the general population.
- Generally it is best to attain a reasonable sample size that is representative of the population being studied.
- Thus, the responses collected are biased and not representative of the general population of interest.
- This will impact whether the data is externally valid, meaning that it can be applied to the general public.
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- Erik Erikson proposed that people in early and middle adulthood struggle with two particular crises: intimacy vs isolation and generativity vs. stagnation.
- Generativity vs. stagnation (from age 25-30 into mid to late 50's) is a time when people think about the contribution they are making to the world.
- Generativity involves finding one's life’s work and contributing to the development of others through activities such as volunteering, mentoring, and raising children; those who do not master this task may experience a feeling of stagnation.
- Similar to Erikson's theory of generativity vs. stagnation, a mid-life crisis usually occurs when a person starts to reflect on their own life, the time left in it, and what they have not yet accomplished in life.
- People experiencing a mid or quarter-life crisis generally feel anxious and unsure of themselves and the direction their life is taking.
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- ., are unmyelinated) appear a darker beige color, which is generally called gray.
- Networks formed by interconnected groups of neurons are capable of a wide variety of functions, including feature detection, pattern generation, and timing.
- Given that individual neurons can generate complex temporal patterns of activity independently, the range of capabilities possible for even small groups of neurons are beyond current understanding.
- When intrinsically active neurons are connected to each other in complex circuits, the possibilities for generating intricate temporal patterns become far more extensive.
- A modern conception views the function of the nervous system partly in terms of stimulus-response chains, and partly in terms of intrinsically generated activity patterns; both types of activity interact with each other to generate the full repertoire of behavior.
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- These studies are used to describe general or specific behaviors and attributes that are observed and measured.
- Although case studies cannot be generalized to the overall population (as can experimental research), nor can they provide predictive power (as can correlational research), they can provide extensive information for the development of new hypotheses for future testing and provide information about a rare or otherwise difficult-to-study event or condition.
- While descriptive research cannot be generalized beyond the specific object of study, it can help psychologists gain more information about a topic, and formulate hypotheses for future experiments.
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- These areas relate to the tasks that Erik Erikson referred to as generativity vs. stagnation and intimacy vs. isolation.
- This is likely to occur during Erikson's stage of generativity vs. stagnation, a time when people think about the contribution they are making to the world.
- Generativity involves finding one's life’s work and contributing to the development of others through activities such as volunteering, mentoring, and raising children; those who do not master this task may experience a feeling of stagnation.
- Erikson's stage of generativity vs. stagnation revolves around a person's sense of their contribution to the world.
- Generativity is about making life productive and creative so that it matters to others, especially those in the next generation.
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- In today's psychological landscape, intelligence can be very generally defined as the capacity to learn from experiences and adapt to one's environment, but thanks to the many different theories of intelligence that have been developed over the last century or so, there are many different frames in which to discuss it.
- In 1904, Charles Spearman published an article in the American Journal of Psychology titled "General Intelligence."
- Based on the results of a series of studies collected in England, Spearman concluded that there was a common function across intellectual activities that he called g, or general intelligence.
- In 1940, David Wechsler became a major critic of general intelligence and the Binet-Simon scale.
- Cattell proposed two types of intelligence rather than a single general intelligence.
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- One problem with personality measures is that individuals have a tendency to endorse vague generalizations.
- What the students did not know is that they all received the exact same profile, consisting of very generalized descriptions which could apply to almost anyone.
- More than half of the students selected the generalized profile as their own.
- Both of these studies demonstrate how personality measures can provide general or vague descriptions and still be accepted by individuals as accurate.
- The generalized nature of the descriptions allows for a large number of individuals to believe that they are accurate.
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- Like physical traits, these mutations in behavioral traits may help the organism reproduce; this in turn allows the mutations to be passed on to the next generation.
- This results in social processes that maximize individuals' genetic fitness, or ability to pass their genes to the next generation.
- Over many generations, more "attached" infants will survive to mate and pass on their gene for attachment.
- From an evolutionary point of view, behaviors are not made consciously: they are instinctual, and based on what is most advantageous in terms of passing one's genes on to the next generation.
- In this context, success or fitness is judged by considering the number of offspring that the individual performing the behavior would contribute to the next generation.