Developmental Psych
This field of psychology examines how people change physically, cognitively, and socially throughout life.
What is developmental psychology?
Eye color is influenced primarily by this side of the nature-nurture debate.
What is nature?
This organ continues developing throughout childhood and adolescence.
What is the brain?
I proposed four major stages of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This hemisphere is typically more involved in language abilities such as speaking, reading, and writing.
What is the left hemisphere?
According to Piaget, adolescents enter this stage of cognitive development when they become capable of abstract, logical, and hypothetical thinking.
What is the formal operational stage?
Language, parenting, education, and peer groups are examples of influences from this side of the debate.
What is nurture?
This brain region is heavily involved in planning, judgment, decision-making, and impulse control.
What is the frontal lobe?
I developed eight stages describing psychosocial development throughout the lifespan.
Who is Erik Erikson?
This hemisphere is often more involved in spatial processing, recognizing faces, and interpreting visual patterns.
What is the right hemisphere?
In Piaget's theory, a child who understands that an object still exists even when it cannot be seen has developed this ability.
What is object permanence?
Researchers often study these siblings because they share all of their DNA and can help scientists investigate genetic influences.
Who are identical twins?
This brain structure plays an important role in processing emotions, including fear and threat.
What is the amygdala?
My research involving rhesus monkeys challenged the idea that attachment was based mainly on feeding.
Who is Harry Harlow?
This thick band of nerve fibers allows the brain's left and right hemispheres to communicate with each other.
What is the corpus callosum?
Erikson believed adolescents face this major psychosocial conflict.
What is identity vs. role confusion?
Besides twin studies who else is looked at when studying nature v nurture?
Feral Children
What two areas in the brain are responsible for balance?
What is the cerebellum and occipital lobe?
I proposed stages of moral reasoning, including preconventional, conventional, and postconventional morality.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
A psychologist wants to measure changes in the brain's electrical activity while a participant is sleeping. This recording technique would be most appropriate.
What is an EEG?
A teenager explores different beliefs, careers, and identities before making commitments. This period of exploration is called this
What is a moratorium?
A person may inherit a genetic tendency toward a certain trait, but whether and how strongly that trait develops can depend on their experiences and environment. This demonstrates this concept.
What is gene-environment interaction?
The brain's ability to change and reorganize in response to experience is called this.
What is neuroplasticity?
This child was discovered after experiencing extreme isolation and became an important case for studying language development and critical periods.
Who is Genie?
A young child believes everyone sees and thinks about the world exactly as they do. Piaget called this inability to take another person's perspective this.
What is egocentrism?