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Remember when...
100
The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle
What is Circadian Rhythm?
100
tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.
What is hindsight bias?
100
harmful substances that cross the placenta to affect the baby
What are teratogens?
100
the transitional period between puberty and adulthood in human development, extending mainly over the teen years and terminating legally when the age of majority is reached; youth.
What is adolescence?
100
learning that has persisted over time
What is memory?
200
Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur
What is REM?
200
statement of procedures used to define research variables which helps to enable replication
What is operational definition?
200
modify existing schema to fit better with new information
What is accommodation?
200
a cultural specific timetable for events to occur. Events include marriage, having children, etc.
What is social clock?
200
tendency to recall last and first items in a list
What is serial position effect?
300
According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream
What is manifest content?
300
set of assumptions used to explain phenomena & offered for scientific study
What is theory?
300
compare groups of people of various ages on similar task--can reveal the average age of certain skills and abilities. (used more frequently)
What is cross-sectional study?
300
Moral reasoning is guided by external consequences. No internalization of values or rules.
What is preconventional morality level?
300
encoding that requires attention and conscious effort
What is effortful processing
400
A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and consequent momentary reawakenings
What is sleep apnea?
400
perception of a correlation between variables where none exists.
What is illusory correlation?
400
time during which a skill or ability must develop or it probably never will (Language by age 12)
What is critical period?
400
1960's inspired by Piaget's work created a stage theory of moral development which creates hypothetical dilemmas.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
400
rentention independent of conscious recollection
What is implicit memory?
500
a split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.
What is dissociation?
500
epeating of research study to determine if its finding extends to other participants and circumstances
What is replication?
500
incorporating new ideas into existing schema
What is assimilation?
500
crisis in each stage must be resolved to move on. challenges are present in one form or another throughout life. Stages: Trust vs. Mistrust, Autonomy vs. Doubt, Initiative vs. Guilt, Industry vs. Inferiority, Identity vs. Identity diffusion, Intimacy vs. Isolation, Generativity vs. Stagnation, Ego Integrity vs. Despair
What are psychosocial theory stages?
500
unconscious encoding of incidental information
What is Automatic Processing?