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Research method that focuses on one or a few participants in depth
What is a case study?
The part of the nervous system that contains the brain
What is the central nervous system?
The number of functioning eyes required to perceive monocular depth cues
What is one?
Children in the preoperational stage often engage in this type of imaginary play.
What is pretend (play)?
Our identities are heavily shaped by these traumatic events.
What are adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)?
"90% of gamblers quit before they hit it big" is an example of this fallacy.
What is the gambler's fallacy?
While non-experimental methods look for correlation, experiments look for _______.
What is causation?
This part of the brain is largely responsible for our feelings of aggression and fear.
What is the amygdala?
A helpful way of memorizing something, i.e. PEMDAS
The ecological system that most directly affects a child's development
What is microsystem?
Hastily choosing an identity that doesn't quite fit you
What is foreclosure?
Children cannot give this kind of confirmation when asked to participate in research.
What is (informed) consent?
If you can't repeat the procedures of a study and get similar results, it is not considered ______.
What is replicable?
AKA the cars of the nervous system, an example is epinephrine
What are neurotransmitters?
When an object seems like it only has one use or purpose
What is functional fixedness?
We know that babies can perceive depth at an early age thanks to this famous experiment.
What is the visual cliff?
A person at this psychosocial stage might ask, "will I ever find love?"
What is intimacy vs. isolation?
A sleep disorder commonly associated with long work hours and irregular schedules
What is shift work?
A statistic that indicates the percentage of scores that were lower than a certain score
What is percentile rank?
These cells hold neurons in place and feed them nutrients.
What are glial cells?
Why a memory is more easily recalled if you are in the same physical state as when you experienced it
What is state-dependent memory?
A child of this type of parent might be manipulative and aggressive.
What is permissive?
A person at this psychosocial stage might ask, "am I talented?"
What is industry vs. inferiority?
Our ability to "turn down" certain smells, sounds, etc. that might overstimulate our senses
What is sensory adaptation?
When filling out a survey, some participants might choose the answers they think the researchers want to see even if they are not accurate. This type of bias is called ________.
What is social desirability bias?
If this area of someone's right hemisphere is damaged, they may not be able to understand speech and may speak in "word salad."
What is Wernicke's Area?
The four gestalt principles of perception
What are figure-ground, closure, similarity, and proximity?
Children might require lots of scaffolding during this period of active learning
What is zone of proximal development?
Temperament is a good indicator of future personality and identity, demonstrating this developmental theme.
What is stability?
AKA faceblindness
What is prosopagnosia?
A statistic that measures how much scores vary in relation to the center of the data
What is standard deviation?
A split brain patient is flashed an image of a cat to their right eye and a dog to their left eye. They will be able to identify this image out loud.
What is the cat?
Even though it's very unlikely to die of a spider bite, we are more afraid of spiders than heart disease because of this quick judgement.
What is the availability heuristic?
Studying development according to physical age focuses on ________ development.
What is chronological?
During adolescence, teenagers experience the return of this developmental trait from the preoperational stage.
What is egocentrism?
The amount of morphemes in the word "holiday"
What is two?