Unit 1 Vocab
Unit 2 Vocab
Unit 1 Application
Unit 2 Application
MISC.
100

This IF, THEN statement is an educated guess that is meant to be tested...

What is Hypothesis

100

This type of psychology studies how an individual changes as they mature...

What is developmental psychology?

100

Explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative research...

Qualitative is the quality of characteristics of something, Quantitative is a counting number or how much of something

100

Define maturation and describe some milestones a maturing baby would have...

Internally programmed growth... sitting up, walking, crawling, rolling over

100

What is the population of steelville? (Within 250 people more or less)

1,445

200

This research method involves observing subjects in their natural environment without interference...

What is Naturalistic Observation

200

The man known for his 4 Cognitive Developmental stages is known as...

Who is Jean Piaget?

200

Explain the difference between hypothesis and theory...

What is... hypothesis is educated guess, theory is statement based off evidence

200

A child who knows their mother is still nearby even though she is out of sight would have the skill of... Which of Piaget's Stages does this milestone occur?

What is object permanence, Sensorimotor Stage

200

What is Mr. Murphy's birth month and astrological sign...

October, Libra

300

The case of Genie The Wild Child would fall under this research method...

What is a case study?

300

In this level of learning, one adjusts their old schema to include newly observed events and experiences, creating a brand new schema...

What is accommodation

300

Describe the relationship between physiological, cognitive, and behavior

What is...Physiological is physical ways the body works, cognitive is your brain and mental functions... both combine together to equal behavior.

300

Describe a situation in which you could see or test if a child knew the principle of conservation...

Cutting up food, pouring water into different cups...

300

What high School did Mr. Murphy attend... College?

Park Hills Central, Missouri S&T (you could say MAC as well)

400

A psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to their environment would be known as a...

What is a Behavioral Psychologist / Behaviorist

400
In this cognitive developmental stage, children experience egocentrism and often treat inanimate objects as living ones...

What is the Preoperational Stage

400

List the 6 steps of the scientific method in the correct order...

Question, Hypothesis, Experiment, Results, Conclusions, Theory

400

Describe the process of schema, assimilation, and accommodation

Mental representation of the world, process of fitting objects into schema, creating new schema

400

How many total district championships does Steelville Basketball have? (Boys and Girls combined)

13

8 Boys 5 Girls

500

These type of psychologists focus on how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how this information influences thinking, language, problem-solving, and creativity...

What is a Cognitive Psychologist or Cognitivist

500

The ability to sort objects in an order according to size, shape, or other characteristic is known as...

ALSO, which of Piaget's 4 stages does this concept occur in?

What is seriation, and Concrete Operational

500
List the 5 descriptive research methods and define each...

What is... case study, longitudinal, cross-sectional, survey, naturalistic observation

500

List Piaget's 4 Stages in the correct order, and briefly explain each with a definition or concept...

1. Sensorimotor 2. Preoperational 3. Concrete Operational 4. Formal Operational

1. Object Permanence, or definition. 2. Egocentrism, Animism, Conservation 3. Seriation, Reversibility 4. Abstract thinking, prediction

500

What year did Mr. Murphy first start teaching at Steelville High School? 

2022