Psychological Science & Perception
It includes Curiosity, Skepticism, and Humility
What is the Scientific Attitude?
Neural change in the brain that is strongest in childhood but continues throughout life.
What is plasticity?
This is the type of study most often conducted to compare nature to nurture.
What are twin studies?
This is the first two week of development for a fertilized egg.
What is a zygote?
He developed the study that first demonstrated classical conditioning.
Who is Pavlov?
The distance from one wave peak to the next
Wavelength
The brief electrical charge that travels down an axon
This is a cultural value system typified by discovering and expressing one's own uniqueness and highlighting personal achievements.
What is individualism?
Pregnant women are advised not to drink or smoke because alcohol and nicotine are these agents.
In Pavlov's dog experiment, this is the conditioned stimulus?
What is the bell or tone?
The receptor cells responsible for responsible for processing low light and black and white vision.
What are the rods?
The sleep stage that dreams occur
What is REM?
The extent to which variation among individuals in a group can be attributed to their differing genes.
What is heritability?
When infants older than 6 months understand that objects still exist even when they cannot see them.
What is object permanence?
When animals revert to their biologically predisposed patterns.
What is instinctive drift?
A study that examines one individual or group in depth but has low generalizability
What is a case study?
Nicotine fits into this kind of drug category
What is a stimulant?
Meaning "in addition to" or "above and beyond"
What is epigenetics?
The Piaget stage in which children can use logic abstractly.
What is formal operational?
Bandura's study with the bobo doll demonstrated the power of THIS on learning behaviors.
What is modeling?
Three things that can influence our perceptual set when encountering stimuli.
What are Context, Motivation, and Emotion?
This study with the gorilla walking among the basketball players (many people failed to notice the gorilla on first viewing) demonstrated this concept.
What is inattentional blindness?
This theory posits that we acquire out identity in childhood by observing and imitating others' gender-linked behaviors and by being rewarded or punished for acting in certain ways.
Social Learning Theory
He developed stages of psychosocial development
Who is Erikson?
The desire to perform a behavior effectively and for its own sake.
What is intrinsic motivation?