Development Dos and Don'ts
Brain Busters
Drug Doozies
Crossword clues
Test Troubles
100
A parenting style most likely to have children who have high self-esteem and self-reliance
What is Authoritative?
100
The birth of new brain cells
What is neurogenesis?
100
The distressed experience when the high subsides
What is withdrawal?
100
It occurs when you have a chance to sleep, after you have been deprived of sleep.
What is Rem Rebound?
100
the science of behavior and mental processes
What is Psychology?
200
a type of social support which helps children develop cognitively
What is Scaffolding?
200
The location where neural networks develop last
What are cortical association areas?
200
Drugs that slow body function and inhibit neural activity
What are depressants?
200
Natures Role in Development
What is maturation?
200
A psychological approach that asks the participant to describe their own cognitive feelings and experiences
What is introspection?
300
This psychologist proposed children's' minds are not the same as adults
Who is Piaget?
300
Chemicals neurons use to communicate to each other
What are Neurotransmitters?
300
A REM sleep inhibitor
What is Alcohol?
300
Men are less likely to show this type of modesty
What is Social Modesty?
300
the awareness of ourselves and our environment
What is Consciousness?
400
A person's emotional reactivity, and intensity that is believed to be inherited.
What is temperament?
400
This substance wraps around neurons to improve communication between brain regions
What is Myelin?
400
The number one reason teens say they started smoking
What are peer groups?
400
Occurs in ducklings, but not human infants
What is imprinting?
400
The tendency to perceive order in random events leads to this "six sense"
What is Intuition?
500
Dmitry Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut (Russians)used it to demonstrate natural selection in foxes
What is selective mating?
500
Area of the brain responsible for planning, judgment, decision-making skills, attention span, and inhibition.
What is the frontal lobe?
500
Chemicals that change perceptions and moods
What are Psychoactive Drugs?
500
A way of recording eye movements
What is an EOG?
500
adjusting behaviors based on past rewards or punishment
What is Learning?
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