What is Psychology?
Jenny is a psychologist. She is currently working on a case study with a baby and tracking their cognition from childhood until adulthood. Jenny studies this type of psychology.
Developmental Psychology
Humans have learned to live in an environment with bacteria. Humans' ability to live with bacteria falls under this evolutionary idea.
Tom comes home from a stressful day at work and starts to argue with his family; he seems to experience fight or flight. Tom's symptoms are caused by this nervous system.
Autonomic
Molly is currently preganant, by this point in her pregnancy, most of the baby's body systems are forming, and teratogens are causing the baby's growth to slow.
Fetus Period
You are currently looking at a screen. This is the first step in the process when energy enters our body to view an image on the screen.
Transduction
Mr. Johnson is testing his classroom for participation. He considers high classroom participation as fifteen students raising their hands per class period, medium classroom participation as seven students raising their hands per class period, and low classroom participation as fewer than three hand raises per class period. Mr. Johnson's classroom participation system can be known as this type of definition.
Operative Definition
Ducks and other birds have children that they send off into the world right 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 in this neurotransmitter.
GABA
Harlow's work with the Monkeys showed that monkeys need contact comfort, rather than needing a feeding parent. This research defies this attachment theory.
Cupboard theory of attachment
Dan touches something green and sticky. After touching the sticky substance, he thinks "ew gross" and immediately washes his hands. Dan currently experiences this type of processing.
Bottom-Up Processing
Patricia is measuring the grass height and wants to make sure she is accurately testing for grass height. Patricia should be checking for this.
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, and his words have no content to them. 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, she still cries, she just won't stop crying! This is an example of this attachment pattern.
Resistant (anixous-ambivalent)
Sam is on a walk in the woods. He is very scared, and there are many creaking noises. All of a sudden, he heard a big bang. A tree branch feels. This demonstrates this specific part of Signal Detection Theory.
Hit
Binghamton, NY, as the sun sets later, the days get warmer. This type of correlation is known as ______
Positive Correlation
Samuel is walking in a dark forest. He hears a loud growl and starts to run away from the sound. This is the fixed-action pattern.
Running away
Hippocampus
Matthew is in school learning multiplication and division in math. In science, he is learning about the water cycle. These are all developmentally appropriate activities for him. Matthew is in this period of cognitive development according to Piaget.
Concrete Operational
Gabby is a toddler. She has learn to communicate by nodding and shaking her head. Gabby is currently activating this sense.
Vestibular
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 at least an hour before bed. She finds that the younger child can fall asleep more quickly. This is the dependent variable.
Screen Limit/Technology
Lola's range of reaction to her height is between 5'0"-5'4", but she ends up being 5'3" at the tallest in her life. This determines the range of reaction to her height.
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.
Social Contract
Penny runs around and scrapes her leg. She immediately gets up and keeps running as if nothing happened. She doesn't even realize there is blood running down her leg. Why might this be?
She is lacking nociceptors