Fewer than half of all fertilized eggs, called THESE, survive beyond the first 2 weeks.
What are zygotes?
100
This form of learning is characterized by a decrease in responding with repeated stimulation.
What is habituation?
100
According to Piaget, this is the principle that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape.
What is conservation?
100
This type of morality focuses on self-interest: children obey rules either to avoid punishment or to gain concrete rewards.
What is preconventional?
100
This way of studying intelligence involves retesting the same people over a period of years.
What is longitudinally?
200
At each prenatal stage, these two factors affect our development.
What are genetic and environmental?
200
In this stage, according to Piaget, babies take in their world through their senses and actions.
What is sensorimotor?
200
According to Piaget, being egocentric falls into THIS stage of development.
What is preoperational?
200
According to Piaget, children fully gain the mental ability to comprehend mathematical transformations during THIS stage.
What is concrete operational?
200
This type of bond is a powerful survival impulse that keeps infants close to their caregivers.
What is attachment?
300
This type of parenting seems to be the most effective.
What is authoritative?
300
According to this psychologist, there are 3 stages of morality.
Who is Dr. Lawrence Kohlberg?
300
This psychologist came up with the 8 stages of psychosocial development.
Who is Dr. Erik Erikson?
300
Aging taxes our brain by slowing this type of processing.
What is neural?
300
In Alzheimer's patients, memory deteriorates first, then this does.
What is reasoning?
400
Deprived of THIS vital chemical messenger, memory and thinking suffer.
What is acetylcholine?
400
In THIS type of study, researchers at one point in time test and compare people of various ages.
What is cross-sectional?
400
According to Erik Erikson, these are the two basic aspects of our lives that dominate adulthood.
What are intimacy and generativity?
400
The amygdala (a neural processing center for emotions) shows diminishing activity in older adults in reponse to ________________ events, but it maintains its responsiveness to ________________ events.
What are negative/positive?
400
Our physical abilities--muscular strength, reaction time, sensory keenness, and cardiac output--reach their height by this age range.
What is mid twenties?
500
Exercise promotes the birth of new nerve cells in the hippocampus, a brain region important for memory. This "birth" is called _____________.
What is neurogenesis?
500
Physically active, nonobese people are less at risk for THIS mental disease later in life.
What is Alzheimer's?
500
Our genes dictate our overall brain architecture, but ________________ fills in the details, developing neural connections and preparing our brain for thought and language and other later experiences.
What is experience?
500
We are born preferring sights and sounds that facilitate facial ______________________.
What is responsiveness?
500
Our earliest memories seldom predate our third birthday, which is referred to as THIS.