Infancy and Childhood
The first stage of cognitive development
What is the sensorimotor stage?
A sense of self.
What is identity?
The number of stages we can divide adulthood into.
What is three?
The surface of the cerebrum.
What is the cerebral cortex?
A type of fear reaction characterized by loss of motion, silence, or collapse.
What is freeze?
The bond between a child and their caregiver
What is attachment?
Actions that may present harm to the doer or people around them. These can include use of drugs, dangerous sexual actions, or unhealthy coping mechanisms.
What is risk behavior?
The number of stages of grief.
What is five?
The lobe of the brain that controls conscious thought and speech.
What is the frontal lobe?
A sleep disorder characterized by frequent waking during the night and inability to fall into deep sleep reliably.
What is insomnia?
The parenting style where parents show a lot of positive affection. They rarely set limits and are lax about rules. They make few demands on their children and allow them to freely express their impulses. Punishments are rare or non-existent.
What is permissive?
The ability to bounce back from adversity.
What is resilience?
A struggle with identity that typically occurs with feelings of helplessness, fear, anxiety about the future, and drastic life changes like going to college or joining the workforce.
What is a quarter-life crisis?
The bundle of nerves that join the two halves of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
An examination that can read levels and locations of brain activity, measured through electrodes attached to the head.
What is electroencephalography, or EEG?
The parenting style that research has found to be the most beneficial for children.
What is authoritative?
An eating disorder characterized by obsession over food, extreme restriction, and drastic weight loss.
What is anorexia nervosa?
The difference between dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
What is dementia is a symptom, Alzheimer's is a disease?
The part of the brain that controls the endocrine system.
What is the hypothalamus?
The recommended number of hours of sleep a teenager should get every night.
What is 9-10 hours?
The time period during which language must be learned in order to be acquired 'normally'
What is the critical period?
The traits and behaviors that help adolescents avoid engaging in risk behavior.
What are protective factors?
The third stage of grief.
What is bargaining?
The cells that make up the nervous system.
What are neurons?
The awareness of one's dreaming state.
What is lucid dreaming?