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Defining Core Cognitive Functions and Psychological Concepts

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Long-Term Memory Classification

Long-term memory is divided into the following types:

  • Episodic Memory: Storing facts and personal experiences.
  • Semantic Memory: Storing information related to our knowledge of the world, often associated with language.
  • Procedural Memory: Storing information related to skills that, once learned, are performed almost unconsciously.

Information Retrieval

Information retrieval is the process of accessing and recalling stored information.

Space-Temporal Orientation

This corresponds to the ability of a person to orient themselves with respect to objects, places, and time at a given moment.

It is divided into:

  • Temporal Orientation: The ability to place ourselves in time and understand the timeline of events (e.g., parts of the
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Conflict Analysis: From Causes to Peaceful Resolution

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Understanding Conflict

Basic Characteristics of a Conflict

  • Subject or grounds: The relationship of each person on that issue creates conflicting positions.
  • Subjects with a different perspective: They have different ideas regarding the matter or wish for different solutions.
  • Agreements: The parties try to settle the dispute by agreement or end the conflict through the same.

Causes of Conflict

Causes related to relationships between individuals, groups, or organizations:

  • Differing interests or desires.
  • Differences in values or beliefs.
  • Personal clashes.
  • Need to make a decision.

Individual Conflict at Work

Arises between an employee and an entrepreneur. Its purpose is the recognition of a subjective right of individual character.

Collective Conflict at Work

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Group Dynamics and Social Classification

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Essential Skills for Group Leadership

  • Capacity of expression: Both oral and body language.
  • Positivism and constructivism.
  • Interpersonal relationships: The ability to develop personal relationships with members of the group.
  • Conflict management: The ability to ensure interpersonal conflicts do not interfere with the group.
  • Resilience: The ability to deal with criticism.
  • Motivation: The ability to motivate and encourage others.
  • Methodology: Development of techniques and games for use at appropriate times.
  • Improvisation: The ability to improvise.
  • Others.

Classifying Social Groups and Collectives

The crowd, also called a mass, is characterized by a group of more than 50 individuals with little connection between them and whose purposes are not always clear....

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Essential Concepts in Developmental Support

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Key Concepts in Developmental Psychology and Support

Sensorimotor Intelligence

A problem-solving ability where interventions in cognitive development should incorporate practical proposals from the recipient's motor development, as these two areas are intertwined during this period.

Direct Observation Methods

Observation occurring naturally in daily life.

Indirect Observation Techniques

Useful for observing processes when natural, daily observation is not feasible. This involves audio or video recordings, always with family consent.

Temporary Support

Support not always required, or short-term. The intensity can vary from high to low.

Limited Intermittent Support

Support that can be longer or shorter in duration, but is intermittent.

Extensive Support

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Psychological Defense Mechanisms and Developmental Stages

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Understanding Denial as a Defense Mechanism

Denial is a psychological defense used to protect oneself from an unpleasant situation by refusing to perceive it, whether temporarily or permanently. Example: The inability to assimilate the sudden death of a loved one.

The Id and Its Characteristics

The Id consists of impulses and instinctive forces that drive behavior. It is governed by the pleasure principle (the desire for immediate gratification). It relates to the unconscious level and manifests as sexual and aggressive impulses.

The Phallic Stage and Psychosexual Development

The Phallic stage occurs between the ages of 4 and 6. During this phase, satisfaction is achieved through the manipulation of sexual organs. It manifests as a sexual attraction...

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Human Needs Hierarchy, Psychology, and Disaster Levels

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Human Needs Hierarchy

The hierarchy of human needs dictates that once needs at one level are satisfied, new needs and desires at a higher level emerge. These levels are:

  1. Physiological Needs: Essential for survival and health.
  2. Safety and Security: Reinsurance, protection, love, and stability.
  3. Emotional Relationships: Membership and belonging.
  4. Esteem: Self-help and the pursuit of exceeding performance.

Psychology's Purpose and Ethics

Psychology has human purposes and objectives, such as social welfare and quality of life. The profession is governed by a code of ethics designed to serve as a pattern of professional conduct. Psychologists respect and promote integrity in science.

Criminology and Forensic Psychology

Gross Hans's criminology suggests that...

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Biopsychosocial Model & Human Behavior Dynamics

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Biopsychosocial Model Insights

The biopsychosocial model posits that the human being is composed of three interconnected dimensions:

  • Biological Dimension
  • Psychic Dimension
  • Social Dimension

Human Needs and Satisfaction

Human needs and their satisfaction are oriented in two primary directions:

  • Psychosocial Care: This involves professional actions taken to help individuals meet their psychological and social needs.
  • Educational Care: This aims to facilitate learning, enabling individuals to understand and meet their own needs.

Psychology Fundamentals

Psychology deals with the behavior and mental processes of people; in other words, what a person does, feels, or thinks.

Core Psychological Concepts

  • Behavior: Actions that people perform.
  • Mental Processes: Cognitive
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Understanding Learning and Memory Processes

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Understanding Learning

Learning is the process through which new skills, abilities, knowledge, behaviors, or values are acquired as a result of study, experience, training, and observation.

Importance of Learning

This process can be analyzed from different perspectives. Learning is crucial as it enables individuals to acquire skills and knowledge, shaping their understanding of the world and influencing their future actions and goals.

Effects of Learning

A more direct way to verify the effects that learning to read has on the brain is studied by imaging the brains of children who are learning to read.

Modes of Learning

From a practical perspective, learning can be classified according to the aspects it encompasses. These may include:

  • Cognitive aspects
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Scientific Research Methods: Quantitative vs. Qualitative

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Research Environments: Field and Laboratory Settings

Research environments can be in the field or the laboratory.

Core Approaches to Scientific Research

  • Empiricism
  • Dialectical Materialism
  • Positivism
  • Phenomenology
  • Structuralism

Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

The qualitative and quantitative approaches are complementary and enrich research; they are complemented or replaced in some cases:

  1. Carry out observation and evaluation of phenomena.
  2. Lay down assumptions or ideas as a consequence of observation and assessment.
  3. Test and demonstrate the degree to which assumptions or ideas are unfounded.
  4. Review such assumptions or ideas on the basis of evidence or analysis.
  5. Propose new observations and assessments to establish, modify, cement, substantiate
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Coping with Illness: Emotional Reactions and Mental Health

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Emotional Reactions to Health Loss

Emotional reactions to the loss of health are frequent and varied. Common reactions include:

  • Anxiety: Feelings of worry or fear.
  • Aggressiveness: Displays of rage.

When faced with unpleasant emotions, people often employ psychological strategies known as defense mechanisms. These are automatic, unconscious reactions to emotionally challenging situations, designed to help individuals cope.

Common Defense Mechanisms

  • Denial: Refusing to acknowledge the reality of the situation.
  • Manic Defense: Reacting with excessive excitement or happiness to mask distress. These two mechanisms are common initially but tend to fade as the illness becomes more apparent.
  • Repression: Suppressing awareness of the illness.
  • Regression: Adopting
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