Developmental Psych
When a 2 year old baby believes their favorite toy vanished after seeing it fall
Object Permanence
A mental drawer to organize the files in our mind
Schema
Your friend gives you the wrong score of the football game and you look silly when you mention it to your friends
Misinformation Effect
This psychological perspective will analyze your thinking and mental processes
Cognitive Perspective
Force = Mass(___)
Acceleration
Understanding that actions can be undone.
Reversibility
A child sees a tadpole and immediately classifies it as a bug
Assimilation
Your random fun physics fact is questioned by your teacher but you cannot remember where you learned it
Source Amnesia
The part of a neuron that receives a message
Dendrite(s)
____ IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL
Mitochondria
This occurs when ducklings follow the first moving object that they see when they hatch
Imprinting
The child learns later that a tadpole is a frog thus creating a new saved memory file as a frog
Accommodation
Assembling memories from stored your location
Constructive Memory
This neurotransmitter is activated when you go to bed at night
GABA
The 2nd step in the water cycle
Condensation
This specific time window early in life when exposure to certain stimuli must occur for normal development
Critical Period
A chemical agent introduced during prenatal development
Teratogen
You sleep early the night before a test and seem to remember everything while you take the exam
Memory Consolidation
This neurotransmitter is activated when you finish Mr. V's assignment and you feel like doing more
Dopamine
The largest human organ
Skin/Epidermis
The understanding that quantity stays the same even when shape changes.
Conservation
Your ability to do simple math, write your name are all built as a sturdy neural pathway because of
LTP
You decide to make a pop quiz for your students but only let students with the letter R in their name get a head start. Your study will lack
Standardization
What is Mr. V's favorite color
The rate at which gravity makes an object fall 9___
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