The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth.
What is a Fetus?
The social interaction in which one person (the subject) responds to another person's (the hypnotist's) suggestions that specific changes in perception, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur.
What is Hypnosis?
The organized whole; perspective emphasizing our tendency to integrate pieces into meaningful wholes.
What is Gestalt?
The neurotransmitter regulating movement, learning, attention, pleasure, and reward.
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What is Dopamine?
The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.
What is Object Permanence?
The emotional tie with another person, shown in young children seeking closeness to caregivers.
What is an Attachment?
The pioneer of cognitive developmental stages in children.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The process by which sensory receptors receive physical energy from the environment.
What is Sensation?
The brain's capacity to modify, reorganize, and adapt following damage or new experience.
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What is Plasticity?
The biological growth processes enabling orderly changes in behavior.
What is Maturation?
The period of sexual maturation during which a person becomes capable of reproducing.
What is Puberty?
The Piaget's stage (0-2 yrs) during which infants know the world mostly through sensory impressions.
What is Sensorimotor?
The diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant, unchanging stimulation.
What is Sensory Adaptation?
One of the primary founders of Gestalt psychology who studied the phi phenomenon, emphasizing that perceptual experiences are perceived as organized wholes rather than isolated sensory parts
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Who is Max Wertheimer?
Harry Harlow's finding that surrogate monkey mothers favored soft physical contact over food.
What is Contact Comfort?
The transitional phase of physical, psychological, and social development between childhood and adulthood, typically spanning from the onset of puberty around ages 10–12 through neurobiological and social maturity into the early 20s
What is Adolescence?
The Piaget's stage (2-7 yrs) marked by egocentrism, symbolic thought, and lack of conservation.
What is Preoperational?
The area at the front of the parietal lobes (somatosensory cortex) that registers and processes bodily touch, temperature, and movement sensations.
What is Sensory Cortex?
The developer of 8 Psychosocial stages across the human lifespan.
Who is Erik Erikson?
Mary Ainsworth's observational research procedure measuring infant attachment styles.
What is Strange Situation?
The process by which certain animals form strong rigid attachments during an early critical period.
What is Imprinting?
The Piaget's stage (12+ yrs) enabling abstract reasoning and hypothetical thinking.
What is Formal Operation?
The place you can find the Muffin Man.
What is Drury Lane?
The developer of Preconventional, Conventional, and Postconventional moral reasoning stages
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
The inability of a young child to take another person's perspective.
What is Egocentrism?