Unit 3 Biology
This process converts sensory input into neural messages.
transduction
Hypothetical and deductive thinking are characteristic of which of Jean Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?
Formal Operational
This parenting style, associated with high responsiveness and high expectations, tends to produce the most socially competent and emotionally stable children.
Authoritative Parenting Style
This memory phenomenon explains why people tend to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than the middle.
Serial Position effect
Which of the following is an example of a stage of language development that occurs before a child can speak words?
(A) Telegraphic speech (B) Babbling
(C) Holophrasing (D) Paraphrasing
Babbling
The frequency theory and place theory both attempt to explain this sense
hearing
According to Erikson, toddlers learning to pick out their clothes, letting them feed themselves, and encouraging them to use the toilet happens during this psychosocial stage.
Autonomy vs. Shame
This type of interference occurs when new information blocks old information.
Retroactive interference
Jeremy happily played with his colorful blocks while his mother was nearby. When his mother left the room, he became upset, but he quickly stopped crying and began to play with the blocks again. When his mother returned, he greeted her happily. What attachment style is he demonstrating?
Secure Attachment
Which part of the autonomic nervous system activates the fight-or-flight response?
Sympathetic Nervous system
Egocentrism, animism, and artificialism are characteristic of which of Jean Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?
Preoperational stage
Remembering to perform a future action—like turning in homework—is called this type of memory.
Prospective Memory
If Carmelita stares at a red spot for one minute and then shifts her gaze to a white piece of paper, she is likely to experience an afterimage that is
Damage to Wernicke’s area affects this ability.
Language Comprehension
Children develop an understanding that others have their own thoughts, feelings, and perspectives.
Theory of Mind
This level of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model includes the child’s immediate environments, such as family, school, and peers.
microsystem
These rules of perception explain why we naturally organize pieces of visual information into meaningful wholes.
Gestalt Principles
During the high-wire act, Grace walks along a rope suspended 30 feet above the circus floor. Which of the following is most involved in helping Grace coordinate her movements and maintain her balance during the performance?
cerebellum
fear and aggression
This parenting style is characterized by low warmth and low control, often leading to poor emotional self-regulation in children.
Neglectful parenting style
This stage of memory acts as a “holding tank,” capturing raw sensory information before it can move into short-term memory.
sensory memory
Campbell and a friend are sharing strategies for parenting their teenaged children as the children transition from middle school to high school. Both parents are struck by how much the social norms and cultural beliefs that influence children have shifted since they were in high school 20 years ago.
The interaction of social norms and cultural beliefs are best categorized as which of the following systems of Bronfrenbrenner?
Macrosystem