Random Questions
Childhood
Adolescence
Disorders
The Brain
100
A girl may be dressed as a boy if this is their situation with respect to birth order.
What is "all boys"?
100
The child in this place in the birth order would be most likely to fit in with conversing adults.
What is the "only" child.
100
A teen who is intuitive, and likes to "lump" ideas together and connect them in an analogic way, would be "___________ brained."
What is right brained?
100
This type of disorder includes physical ailments brought on by emotional distress.
What are psychosomatic disorders?
100
This, the largest part of the brain, holds our memories, and controls how we respond to different sensory signals from the world around us.
What is the cerebrum?
200
Infants form multiple strong attachments with other major caregivers besides the mother beginning at this age.
What is 9 months?
200
This type of play occurs when a child appears to be doing nothing that can ordinarily be seen as play.
What is unoccupied play?
200
This "rhythm" moves forward during adolescence, making students more tired in the early part of the school day.
What is the circadian rhythym?
200
Symptoms of this disorder may include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thoughts, and the inability to read people's facial expressions.
What is Schizophrenia?
200
The control centre for the brain. It sends decisions to the rest of the body.
What is the brain stem?
300
An infant with this kind of attachment will be fussy, cry a lot, become distressed when the caregiver leaves, and immediately seek contact upon their return, while simultaneously showing anger and resisting contact.
What is anxious-resistant attachment?
300
The theory that was being tested by researchers in the Genie case.
What is critical period hypothesis?
300
This type of activity is considered especially dangerous during adolescence because important parts of the brain are still developing, and permanent damage can be done.
What is drug or alcohol use?
300
A phobia is an example of this type of disorder.
What is an anxiety disorder?
300
This part of the brain stem controls our sense of touch, and our spatial and visual perception.
What is the parietal lobe?
400
The failure to develop an attachment to any individual.
What is social privation?
400
An example of this type of play would be two children making their own separate sand castles in the same sand box, and talking to each other about what they are going to build next.
What is associative play?
400
These learners are "people persons" who learn best by relating, sharing, and paricipating in cooperative group environments.
What are interpersonal learners?
400
People who exhibit inflexible and long-standing maladaptive ways of dealing with the environment that typically cause stress and/or social difficulties have this type of disorder. (Example: OCD)
What is a personality disorder?
400
These people use the side of their brain that is rational and sequential.
Who are "left-brained" people?
500
This genetic testing procedure is done by performing an ultrasound to located the fetus in the womb, and then using a syringe to extract amniotic fluid.
What is an amniocentesis test?
500
According to Piaget, this is the concept that infants in the "sensorimotor stage" (from birth to 2 yrs old) cannot grasp. It involves understanding that when an object is out of sight, it continues to exist.
What is object permanence?
500
Rapid growth of this part of the brain occurs in both infancy and adolescence.
What is the frontal lobe or frontal cortex?
500
This type of disorder involves real physical symptoms that are not under voluntary control, and for which no apparent physical cause exists.
What are somatoform disorders?
500
Teenagers can be mentally awkward because this part of their brain is still developing.
What is the cerebellum?
M
e
n
u