Developmental Psychology
What side of nurture vs nature is developmental psychology focused on?
Nuture
What is the CNS?
What is informed consent?
an ethical and legal process requiring psychologists to inform clients/participants about treatment or research purposes, risks, benefits, confidentiality limits, and voluntary participation rights
What is the PNS
The Peripheral Nervous System connects to the CNS and relays sensory information from sensory neurons
Which area of the brain holds long term memory?
Hippocampus
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist who developed the influential theory of cognitive development, proposing that children actively construct knowledge by progressing through four distinct, age-related stages.
What is the pituitary gland's main function?
Maintaining homeostasis by managing hormones
Protecting personal information, with exceptions only for safety, such as potential harm to self or others
Confidentiality
What transmit impulses from the brain or spinal cord to muscles and glands, controlling voluntary and involuntary movements?
Motor Neurons
the accumulated knowledge, facts, and skills acquired throughout a person's life, largely through education and experience
A child learns a penguin is a bird, despite believing all birds fly, by changing their thinking. What is this process?
Accommodation
What is a lesion?
Process analyzing damaged brain tissue/areas and it's effects
Debriefing
Following research, participants should receive a full explanation and any necessary support.
What are the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system?
Sympathetic (arouses/fight or flight) and Parasympathetic (calms/rest and digest)
ability to reason, think abstractly, and solve new problems rapidly independent of prior knowledge, peaking in early adulthood
Fluid Intelligence
A child explores, returns to the mother, then explores again.
Secure Attachment Style
Why would you split the brain in two hemispheres?
To reduce seizure activities by decreasing the amount of firing between the two which is the cause for the seizing.
Minimizing physical and psychological distress, and ensuring safety.
Protection from harm
Which part of the neuron receives messages from other cells?
Dendrites
the inability to form new memories after a brain-damaging event, such as trauma, stroke, or illness affecting the hippocampus
Anterograde Amnesia
A teenager wonders "Who am I?" and tries different groups. What psychosocial stage is this?
Identity vs. Role Confusion.
Railroad worker who got a metal rod blown through his left-frontal lobe which changed his personality but he did survive.
Ensuring humane treatment in research
Animal/Human care and use
You pull your hand away from a hot object before realizing it hurts. What process occurred?
A spinal reflex (sensory neurons -> spinal cord interneurons -> motor neurons)
the loss of memories before the injury
Retrograde Amnesia