Unit 0
The middle number in a data set
What is the median?
The genetic transfer of information from parent to offspring.
What is heredity?
Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.
What is selective attention?
The branch of psychology focusing on physical, emotional and cognitive changes
What is developmental psychology?
A decreased responding to repeated stimulation in babies.
What is habituation?
The average of a data set.
What is the mean?
The complete DNA of an organism/person.
What is the genome?
This is when we interpret our new experiences with our existing schemas
What is assimilation?
A study of people of different ages at the same time
Chemical messengers in the brain.
What are neurotransmitters?
This is what impacted or not in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
Will act to increase a neurotransmitters action.
What is an agonist?
The way an issue is worded can affect decisions.
What is framing?
A study of the same people of a period of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
The process of getting information into the memory
What is encoding?
A relationship not a causation between two factors.
What is a correlation?
Brain part linked with emotion (fear, aggression).
What is the amygdala?
The activation of memory.
What is priming?
The order of prenatal development
What is zygote, embryo, fetus?
A measure to see if a test does/predicts what it is supposed to do
What is validity?
When something is not due to chance.
What is statistically significant?
The slow brain waves of a relaxed awake state.
What are alpha waves?
When a person identifies previously learned items
What is recognition?
Agents harmful to prenatal development.
What are teratogens?
The formation of new neurons
What is neurogenesis?