Vocabulary
This is the scientific study of change across the lifespan.
What is developmental psychology?
This designs compares different age groups at one point in time.
This is the basic unit of the nervous system.
This is the part of the brain, also called the primitive brain, is the oldest part of the brain is responsible for regulation of the most basic survival functions like heart rate and respiration.
What is the brain stem?
This is stage-based change — like stairs.
What is discontinuous development?
This design tracks actual development in real people.
What is a longitudinal study?
This is the part of the nervous system that includes the brain and the spinal cord?
What is the central nervous system?
What is the limbic system?
This is the type of development that is gradual, cumulative with no clear stages.
What is continuous development?
This study examines the strength of the relationship between two factors.
What is a correlational study?
It is the part of the peripheral nervous system that calms the body down after a stressful experience.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
What is the Broca's area?
These are differences due to generation, not age.
What is the cohort effect?
The researcher in this type of study manipulates the intervention and measures the participants' responses.
This division of the peripheral nervous system regulates voluntary movements.
What is the somatic nervous system?
The brain structure that is activated when you are experiencing intense fear.
This theme of development seeks to determine what in a person remains constant and what shifts over time?
What is stability vs. change?
Age, Cohort, and Time of testing.
What factors are considered to determine the research design?
This neurotransmitter is called the pleasure chemical of the brain and plays a role in reward and motivation.
What is dopamine?
This brain structure helps us form new memories.
What is the hippocampus?