Social Psychology
The scientific study of how individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by other individuals, or "social stimuli," is referred to as what?
Social Psychology
When a child who is in the sensorimotor stage of development begins to understand that even if an object cannot be seen, it still exists, is said to be developing what?
Object Permanence
The central nervous system is comprised of the ______ and ________.
Brain; Spinal Cord
The scores of a representative population sample on a test that an examiner compares an individual's scores to are referred to as what?
Norms
This controversial type of brain disease, discovered by pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu, was part of the plot in the movie Concussion, starring Will Smith.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)
This tendency to overestimate the role of personal factors while underestimating the impact of situational factors when attempting to understand or explain behaviors is referred to as what?
Fundamental Attribution Error
This genetic syndrome is one of the leading causes of inherited intellectual disability and the most common single gene disorder associated with autism.
Fragile X Syndrome
The dendrites, cell body, and axon are the basic arrangement of what cell?
Neuron
These type of scores are typically used in the interpretation of educational achievement tests (e.g., WIAT-III, WJ-4, etc.) to indicate what level a child's performance is equivalent to.
Grade equivalent scores
Michael J. Fox has this neurodegenerative disease that affects the substantia nigra and results in significant motor symptoms.
Parkinson's disease
A person who hears about another person being mugged and immediately assumes that person did something to deserve such treatment refers to what hypothesis?
Just-World Hypothesis
Chromosome 21 is involved with this syndrome and these individuals are prone to developing Alzheimer's disease as they age.
Down Syndrome (trisomy 21)
This structure in the medial temporal lobe is critical for memory formation.
Hippocampus
_______ refers to the degree that a test measures what it claims to be assessing.
Validity
Robin Williams was said to have developed this type of dementia.
Lewy Body Dementia
The tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconception is referred to as what?
Confirmation Bias
Environmental agents, such as drugs or infections, that cause abnormalities by interfering with normal prenatal development are called what?
Teratogens
This condition occurs when there is damage to the cerebellum and is characterized by irregular and uncoordinated movements.
Ataxia
________ is the consistency of a test, or the degree to which a test provides the same results under the same conditions.
Reliability
This 2015 movie is set in the mind of a girl whose five personified emotions (Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust) help her transition to adolescence
Inside Out
What term refers to the type of thought exhibited by group members attempting to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critically testing, analyzing, or evaluating ideas? This can result in poor decision-making.
Groupthink
Characteristics determined by information coded on a person's genes is called _______, while ________ refers to a set of observable characteristics that develop from an interaction between a person's genetics and their environment.
Genotype; Phenotype
Since pediatric brain tumors are often in the posterior fossa, they tend to cause hydrocephalus.
True or False?
True
The degree to which a measure predicts behavior in everyday situations. It is a form of external validity.
Ecological validity
In the movie, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the main character experiences this type of syndrome following a stroke which leaves him paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking his eye.
Locked-in syndrome