What is Psychology?
Jenny is a psychologist. She is currently working on a case study with a baby. Jenny is interested in tracking this child's cognition and thinking from childhood until adulthood. Jenny studies this type of psychology.
Developmental Psychology
Humans have learned to live in an environment with bacteria without falling ill. Humans' ability to live with bacteria and survive connects to this evolutionary idea.
Fitness
Tom comes home from a stressful day at work and begins to argue with his family, and he seems to experience a fight-or-flight response. Tom's symptoms are caused by this type of nervous system response.
Autonomic Nervous System
Molly is currently pregnant. By this point in her pregnancy, most of the baby's body systems are forming, and teratogens may cause the baby's growth to slow.
Fetus Period
Marisa has sleep paralysis. This part of Marisa's hindbrain is affected and plays a role in her sleep paralysis.
Pons
Mr. Johnson is testing his classroom for participation. He considers high classroom participation to be fifteen students raising their hands per class period, medium participation to be seven students raising their hands per class period, and low classroom participation to be fewer than three students raising their hands per class period. Mr. Johnson's definition of classroom participation is this type of definition.
Operative Definition
Ducks and other birds have children that they send off into the world immediately after birth. Ducks are this type of species.
Precocious species
Michaela is experiencing a lot of anxiety in her life. This is because she has a deficit of this neurotransmitter.
GABA
Harlow's work with the Monkeys showed that monkeys need contact comfort, rather than a feeding parent. This research helped define attachment theory.
Cupboard theory of attachment
Max loves to eat, but he also gets thirsty very easily. This part of the brain regulates Max's hunger and thirst levels.
Hypothalmus
Patricia is measuring grass height and wants to make sure she is actually testing for height rather than composition. Patricia should check this for this measurement concept.
Validity
Kate is going to a makeup store to buy makeup. She believes it will make her more attractive to other people because it will exaggerate her features. This is an example of ________
Supernormal stimuli
Marco is talking, but his words make no grammatical sense. Marco has no content in his speech; it is just a blob of words. This part of Marco's brain is currently damaged.
Wernicke's Area
Misty is a whiny baby. Her parents leave her for the day, and she cries. They come back, and she still cries; she just won't stop crying! This is an example of this attachment pattern.
Resistant (anxious-ambivalent)
Lesly has Parkinson's, which affects her muscle movement. This part of Lesly's brain is currently affected.
Basal Ganglia
In Binghamton, NY, as the sun sets later, the days get warmer. This type of correlation is known as ______
Positive Correlation
Samuel decided to take a walk in a dark forest. He heard a loud growl and ran away from the sound. This is the fixed action pattern in the scenario.
Running away
Hippocampus
Matthew is in school learning multiplication and division in his math class. In science, he is learning about the water cycle. These are all developmentally appropriate activities for him. According to Piaget Matthew is in this period of cognitive development.
Concrete Operational
This part of the hindbrain controls your breathing, heart rate, and other reflexes.
Medulla
Sarah is struggling to get her kids to go to bed. She gives her older child a phone before bed and the younger child a screen limit, with no screen time for at least an hour before bed. She finds that the younger child can fall asleep more quickly. In this situation, the screen limit/technology is this type of variable.
Independent Variable
Lola's range of reaction to her height is between 5'0"and 5'4", but she ends up being 5'3" at the tallest in her life. This determines Lola's exact height within the range of reaction.
Environment
Sophia and Max are both doing spatial perception tests with glasses of water. Who is more likely to do better on these tasks?
Max
He is using the right side of his brain.
Mason is a classroom teacher. At the beginning of the year, he creates a classroom code of ethics collectively with his students. He also tells his students that the contract can be updated throughout the year if needed. Mason is trying to teach his students this stage of Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning.
Social Contract
Right before an exam, Claire's heart rate rises, and she gets very nervous. Claire has an intense fear of exams. This part of Claire's brain is currently active.