Lifespan Development
This person created the 8 stages of psychosocial development
Erik Erikson
Loudness is measured in this term
Decibels (dB)
How many lobes of the brain are there?
4
This is the amount of sleep recommended to people aged 18-25
7-9 hours
What is a group of crows called?
a murder
Theorists who view development in unique stages at specific times or ages would describe development as this.
Discontinuous
According to the trichromatic theory of color vision, all colors in the spectrum can be produced by combining what colors?
Red, Green, Blue
Phineas Gage had damage to which of his brain lobes?
Frontal lobe
A _________ is a drug that tends to suppress the activity of the central nervous system
Depressant
In bowling, three strikes in a row is called?
A Turkey
Any environmental, biological, chemical, or physical agent that can cause damage to a developing embryo is called this.
Field of psychology based on the idea that the whole is different from the sum of its parts
Gestalt psychology
What is the name of a cell that sends messages throughout the body using electrical and chemical signals?
A Neuron
According to Freud, this is what we call the hidden meaning of a dream
Latent content
Which Album won a grammy for Album of the Year?
Cowboy Carter
Parents with this parenting style place a high value on conformity and obedience
Authoritarian
This type of photoreceptor in the eye is involved in our ability to see color
Cones
This lobe of the brain is associated with hearing, memory, emotion, and some aspects of language
Temporal Lobe
This stage of sleep is characterized by brain waves similar to those during wakefulness and is known as the stage when we dream
REM (Rapid Eye movement)
Who won the first season of American Idol?
Kelly Clarkson
The maturation of the adrenal glands is called this
Adrenarche
This principle of Gestalt Psychology states that we organize our perceptions into complete objects rather than as a series of parts
Principle of closure
This phrase refers to the debate about how much a person's characteristics are influenced by genetics or by their life experiences
Nature v. Nurture
Name one of Carl Jung's archetypes that I discussed last week
Anima/Animus, Hero, Shadow, Persona, Sage
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie (1903)