Lifespan Development
Emotional bond between infant and caregiver.
What is attachment?
This theory proposes that intelligence is made up of multiple distinct abilities (linguistic, spatial, musical, etc.)
What is multiple intelligences theory?
What is a hypothesis?
The part of the brain that processes visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
The classification system used to diagnose mental disorders in the U.S.
What is the DSM-5-TR?
Stage of development, according to Piaget, in which children acquire the ability to think logically about concrete objects.
What is concrete operational stage?
This concept describes the ability to understand and manage emotions in oneself and others.
What is emotional intelligence?
The factor that is deliberately changed in an experiment to see if it affects the outcome.
What is an independent variable?
The part of the eye that contains photoreceptors.
What is the retina?
The condition where a person experiences persistent sadness and loss of interest.
What is major depressive disorder?
What stage of development involves learning through sense and actions, according to Piaget.
What is sensorimotor?
A score used to compare a person's intelligence to others of the same age group.
What is an IQ score?
The group in an experiment that does not received the treatment or manipulation.
What is the control group?
The sense that helps you know where your body parts are without looking.
What is kinesthetic sense (or proprioception)?
A disorder characterized by alternating periods of mania and depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
Who is Erik Erikson?
A type of bias in which intelligence test scores are influenced by cultural experiences and educational differences.
What is cultural bias?
A relationship between two variables where one increases and the other also increases (or both decrease)
The brain region responsible for integrating all sensory information except smell.
What is the thalamus?
A disorder involving hallucinations and delusions.
What is schizophrenia?
What is Moral Development?
The ability to create original ideas or solutions.
What is creativity?
The degree to which a study measures what it claims to measure.
What is validity?
The phenomenon where we fail to notice unexpected events when attention is focused elsewhere.
What is inattentional blindness?
A disorder involving disruptions of identity and memory loss.
What is dissociative identity disorder?