Stages of Morality
Piaget
Drug's
Random Madness
Processing!
100
The thinking that occurs as we consider right from wrong
What is Moral Reasoning
100
Name one developmental phenomena of the Sensorimotor Stage?
* Object Permanence * Stranger Anxiety
100
A powerfully addictive drug that stimulates the central nervous system, over time with abuse appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels
What is Methamphetamine
100
A craving for a substance DESPITE adverse consequences and often filled with a malady of physical symptoms such as aches, nausea and distress following withdrawal
What is Addiction
100
What is your brains Visual Information Processing department
What is the Visual Cortex
200
A crucial task of childhood and adolescence is discerning right from wrong also referred to as developing __________
What is Morality
200
Name one developmental phenomena of the Concrete Operational Stage
* Conservation *Mathematical Transformations
200
Drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine and the more powerful amphetimines such as cocaine and ecstasy) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions
What are Stimulants
200
Experts differ in their opinions on hypnosis however most agree that hypnosis can effectively be used to control ____
What is Pain
200
Step-by-step processing of most computers except Brian's
What is Serial Processing
300
Stage before age 9, most children's morality focuses on self-interest: They obey rules either to avoid punishment or gain concrete awards
What is Preconventional
300
Name one developmental phenomena of the Formal Operational Stage
* Abstract Logic * Potential for mature moral reasoning
300
Eliminating this would increase life expectancy more than any other preventative measure
What is a Smoking
300
Sniffing swirls air up the receptors, enhancing the aroma. The receptor cells send messages to the brain's olfactory bulb, and then onward to the temporal lobe's primary smell cortex and then on to which brain system involved with memory and emotion
What is the limbic system
300
Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations
What is Top-down processing
400
Stage: Those who develop the abstract reasoning of formal operational thought may reach a third level of morality affirming peoples agreed upon rights or following self-defined, basic ethical principles.
What is Postconventional Morality
400
Name one developmental phenomena of the Preoperational Stage
* Pretend play *Egocentrism
400
Psychadelic drugs such as LSD that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input. Some cause long term risk is to serotonin-producing neurons and to mood and cognition
What are Hallucinogens
400
The central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster
What is the Fovea
400
The processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brains natural mode of information processing for many functions including vision
What is Parallel Processing
500
Stage: By early adolescence, morality usually evolves to a more conventional level that cares for others and upholds laws and social rules simply because they are the laws and social rules.
What is Conventional Morality
500
Term used to describe all mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating
What is Cognition
500
delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol produces a mix of effects that makes the drug difficult to classify
What is THC or Marijuana
500
Below one's absolute threshold for conscious awareness
Subliminal
500
Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment
What is Bottom-up processing