Rules that regulate life.
What is a norm?
fear of a specific situation, activity, or object
what is phobia
Heredity units made up of DNA protein structure.
What are Genes?
refers to the development process through which individuals acquire the values, behaviors, and motivates necessary
what is Socialization?
Regulates emotions and stress
What are adrenal hormones?
The belief that one's ethnic group is superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?
conditions in which conscious or identity is split or altered.
what is Dissociative Disorders?
Errors that happen during the DNA copying process.
What is a mutation?
rooting, sucking, swallowing, moror, babinski, grasp, stepping
what are the seven reflexes?
The reward center; "feel goods"
What is dopamine?
Tendency that all group members will think alike to supress disagreement.
What is Groupthink?
4 characteristics of the antisocial personality
what is lying, stealing, manipulating, and lack of guilt, shame, and empathy?
A system combining sounds and/or gestures to form a structured meaning.
What is a language?
distress when they are away from their primary caretaker
what is separation anxiety?
Chemical substances involved in pain reduction, pleasure, and memory.
What are endorphins?
Tendency of people to believe that a statement is true because it has been said multiple times.
What is the Validity effect?
Psychotic disorder marked by positive symptoms and negative symptoms
what is Schizophrenia?
Height, eye color, and skin color.
What is three things that are determined by genes?
learning through looking, touching, hearing, putting thing in mouth
what is sensorimotor?
What is an MRI?
The tendency to underestimate influence
What is fundamental attribution error?
a continuous state of anxiety marked by feelings of worry and dread apprehension difficulties in concentration and signs of motor tension
what is General anxiety disorder?
Process in evolution where the fittest survive and pass their genes on to the next generation.
What is natural selection?
develops in the first year that an object continues to exist even when you cannot see it
what is object permanence?
This measures electrical activity in the brain.
What is Electroencephalogram (EBG)?