Development
What is Nurture?
Is a type of mental health worker that can provide therapy and prescribe medication
What is a psychiatrist?
The organ that processes sensory information and initiates motor responses
What is the brain?
The relatively permanent strengthening of synaptic connections as a result of repeated activation
What is LTP?
A prediction of how an experiment will turn out.
What is a hypothesis?
A representation of your mental health existing on a continuum.
What is the wellbeing spectrum?
Development that is progressing within the expected range for people in your age group
What is typical development?
What is the peripheral nervous system?
A type of brain damage that you aren't born with
What is an acquired brain injury? (ABI)
The type of data that is expressed as a number.
What is quantitative data?
A framework that categorises the risk and protective factors that impact your mental health.
What is the Biopsychosocial model
Determining whether someone is typical based on whether their behaviour is harmful or not.
What is maladaptive behaviour
A region of the brain that processes the sense of touch
What is the parietal lobe?
The ability of the brain to physically change in response to experiences.
What is plasticity?
What is the IV?
A time where you are able to learn new skills quickly and has no definitive start or end.
What is a sensitive period?
A type of therapy that focuses on the patients thoughts and behaviours.
What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
The nervous system that is responsible for sending sensory information to the CNS and transmitting motor information to your muscles
What is the Somatic Nervous system?
The getting rid of unused connections through the removal of synapses.
What is pruning?
This is compared to the control group
What is the experimental group?
This can be negatively impacted if you are unable to learn the native language of your ancestors.
What is the cultural dimension?
Developed in childhood, tested using a story about Sally and Anne
What is Theory of mind?
Found in the dendrites that detects the presence of neurotransmitters
What are receptors?
The creation of new synapses
What is synaptogenesis?
Extraneous variables will turn into this if not controlled for.
What is a confounding variable?