A psychologist studies the play of behavior of young children by watching groups during recess at school. This type of research is known as ________________
What is naturalistic observation?
100
The speed at which a neural impulse travels is increased when the axon is encased by a ________
What is a myelin sheath?
100
Four months after having been exposed to a vibrating, honking device placed on its mother's abdomen, a fetus demonstrates ____________________
What is habituation?
100
Every non genetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us is an aspect of our ___________
What is the environment?
100
Already at 15 months of age, Justin strongly senses that he can rely on his father to comfort and protect him. According to Erikson, this most clearly contributes to ________
What is basic trust?
200
______ is a measure of the extent to which two factors vary together
What is correlation?
200
Curare is a paralyzing poison that functions as an _______
What is ACh antagonist?
200
An automatic response to sensory stimulation is called a ___________________
What is a reflex?
200
A segment of DNA capable of synthesizing a specific protein is called a _______
What is a gene?
200
Psychologists who carefully watch the behavior of children in the park are using a research method known as ______________
What is naturalistic observation?
300
A correlation of ___ means that the two variables are positively correlated,and a correlation of __ means that the two variables are negatively correlated
What is +1 and -1?
300
Information from higher brain regions is transmitted to the medulla through the ________
What is thalamus?
300
Four year old Karen can't remember anything of the the first few months of her life, this is best explained by the fact that the _________ and the _______ lobes are immature during early infancy.
What is hippocampus, and frontal lobes?
300
Environmental influences on personality traits are most clearly highlighted by comparing _______________
What is identical twins raised apart and identical twins raised together?
300
_________ refers to the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating
What is cognition?
400
To prevent the possibility that a placebo effect or researcher's expectations will influence a study's results, scientists employ ______
What is the double-blind procedure?
400
The sequence of brain regions from the evolutionarily oldest to newest ______,________, ________.
What is brainstem, limbic system, and cerebral cortex?
400
________ is interpreting new experiences in terms of existing schemas is called
What is assimilation?
400
The fertilized egg will develop into a boy if, at conception,
What is the sperm contributes a Y chromosome?
400
_________ are used to graphically represent the correlation between two variables
What is a scatterplot?
500
Central tendency is to variation as ______ is to _______
What is mean and standard deviation?
500
An amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity that sweep across the surface of the brain is called ______
What is EEG?
500
Some mothers feed their infants when they show signs of hunger, whereas others fail to respond predictably to their infants' demands for food. These different maternal feeding practices are most likely to contribute to differences in the infants _____________
What is attachment?
500
Providing a child a with a stimulating educational environment during early childhood is likely to prevent ______ ___________ from degenerating.
What is Neural connections?
500
A child's ___________ is likely to be stable over time