CAT 1
Fewer than half of all fertilized eggs, called THESE, survive beyond the first 2 weeks.
What are zygotes?
This form of learning is characterized by a decrease in responding with repeated stimulation.
What is habituation?
According to Piaget, this is the principle that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape.
What is conservation?
This type of morality focuses on self-interest: children obey rules either to avoid punishment or to gain concrete rewards.
What is preconventional?
This way of studying intelligence involves retesting the same people over a period of years.
What is longitudinally?
Any substance, agent, or process that can cause abnormal development in a fetus during pregnancy, leading to birth defects
What are teratogens?
In this stage, according to Piaget, babies take in their world through their senses and actions.
What is sensorimotor?
According to Piaget, being egocentric falls into THIS stage of development.
What is preoperational?
According to Piaget, children fully gain the mental ability to comprehend mathematical transformations like reversibility during THIS stage.
What is concrete operational?
This type of bond is a powerful survival impulse that keeps infants close to their caregivers.
What is attachment?
This type of parenting is considered the most effective; parents set clear boundaries, enforce rules, and provide warmth, support, and open communication, fostering independence and self-reliance in their children.
What is authoritative?
This model assumes that any psychological problem potentially involves a combination of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
This psychologist came up with the 8 stages of psychosocial development.
Who is Dr. Erik Erikson?
The process where nerve fibers are coated with a fatty substance, forming a protective sheath that acts as an insulator, enabling faster and more efficient transmission of electrical impulses along the axon.
What is myelination ?
These disorders are characterized by the presence of sad, empty, or irritable mood along with physical and cognitive changes that affect one's ability to function.
What are Depressive Disorders?
Deprived of THIS vital chemical messenger, memory and thinking suffer.
What is acetylcholine?
In THIS type of study, researchers at one point in time test and compare people of various ages.
What is cross-sectional?
According to Erik Erikson, these are the two basic aspects of our lives that dominate adulthood (hint: early and middle adulthood).
What are intimacy and generativity?
This model assumes that psychological disorders develop due to a genetic vulnerability in combination with stressful life experiences.
What is Diathesis-Stress?
Prolonged experiences of nonspecific anxiety or fear.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
The brain's ability to change and adapt its structure and function throughout life in response to experiences and learning
What is neuroplasticity?
The process of experiencing stress; a) initial alarm reaction when stress is encountered; b) resistance phase as stress is confronted; c) lastly, exhaustion phase when stress subsides or resources are all spent. .
What is General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
Mostly occurring in women, this theory proposes that some people react to stress by tending to their own needs and/or the needs of others and seeking connection with others.
What is Tend-and-Befriend?
This hypothesis suggests a biological link to schizophrenia that includes imbalances with certain neurotransmitters.
What is the Dopamine Hypothesis?
Our earliest memories seldom predate our third birthday, which is referred to as THIS.
What is infantile amnesia?