Let's THEORize!
This theory "emphasizes that individual's manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize about it".
Information Processing Theory
_____________ is a pattern of change that begins at conception and continues through life.
Development
All of our physical and psychological traits are part of our what?
PHENOTYPE
This type of research style has the "goal to describe the strength of the relationship between two or more events or characteristics".
Correlational Research
Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory holds that ________, environment and person/cognitive factors are the key factors in development.
behavior
Name the three periods of development in utero.
Germinal, Embryonic and Fetal.
Egg and sperm cells reproduce through this process?
MEIOSIS
These variable is a "manipulated, influential factor" within the experiment.
Independent Variable
A ________ is an interrelated, coherent set of ideas that help to explain a phenomena and make predictions.
THEORY
What are the 3 key developmental processes?
Biological, Cognitive and Socioemotional
____________ is the process by which cells reproduce. The cell duplicates itself with two new cells being formed, which are identical.
MITOSIS
What are the 4 requirements for conducting ethical research?
Informed consent, confidentiality, debriefing and deception
Erickson's Psychological Theory of Development was comprised of how many stages?
8
____________ is any agent that can potentially cause a birth defect or other negative cognitive development.
TERATOGEN
The genetic disorder caused by the existence of an extra chromosome is what?
Down Syndrome
What are the three types of research designs?
Descriptive, Correlational, and Experimental
Psychoanalytic
____________ psychology emphasizes the important of adaptation, reproduction and survival of the fittest.
Evolutionary
_________ are the units of hereditary information, and are short segments of DNA.
Genes
In this form of observation, behaviors are watched in real-world settings, and make no effort to control the situation.
Naturalistic Observation