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[Answer] The first Piagetian stage of cognitive development (birth to about 2 years), in which infants construct an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with motor actions. [Question]
Sensorimotor Stage
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[Answer] The second Piagetian stage of cognitive development (~2 to 7 years), in which thought becomes more symbolic than in the sensorimotor stage but the child cannot yet perform operations. [Question]
Preoperational Stage
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[Answer] The third Piagetian stage of cognitive development (~7 to 11 years), in which thought becomes operational and intuitive reasoning is replaced by logical reasoning in concrete situations. [Question]
Concrete Operational Stage
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[Answer] The fourth and final Piagetian stage of cognitive development (emerging from about 11 to fifteen years), in which thinking becomes more abstract, idealistic, and logical. [Question]
Formal Operational Stage
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[Answer] The close emotional bond between an infant and its caregiver. [Question]
Attachment
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[Answer] An important aspect of socioemotional development in which infants use the caregiver, usually the mother, as a secure base from which to explore the environment. [Question]
Secure Attachment
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[Answer] An individual's behavioral style and characteristic way of responding. [Question]
Temperament
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[Answer] parents exhorting the child to follow directions and to value hard work and effort. [Question]
Authoritarian Parenting
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[Answer] encouraging independence (but still placing controls on behavior); includes verbal give-and-take, and nurturing interactions with the child. [Question]
Authoritative Parenting
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[Answer] Parents are uninvolved in their child's life. [Question]
Neglectful Parenting
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[Answer] Parents are involved with their children but place few limits on them. [Question]
Indulgent Parenting
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[Answer] Behavior that is intended to benefit other people. [Question]
Prosocial Behavior
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[Answer] Main class of male sex hormones. [Question]
Androgens
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[Answer] Main class of female sex hormones. [Question]
Estrogens
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[Answer] A person's ability to recover from or adapt to difficult times. [Question]
Resilience
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[Answer] A period of rapid skeletal and sexual maturation that occurs mainly in early adolescence. [Question]
Puberty
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[Answer] Erikson's fifth psychological stage in which adolescents face the challenge of finding out who they are, what they are all about, and where they are going in life. [Question]
Identity versus Identity Confusion
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[Answer] The transition from adolescence to adulthood. [Question]
Emerging Adulthood
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[Answer] An individual's accumulated information and verbal skills. [Question]
Crystallized Intelligence
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[Answer] An individual's ability to reason abstractly. [Question]
Fluid intelligence
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[Answer] Expert knowledge about the practical aspects of life. [Question]
Wisdom
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[Answer] The process of receiving stimulus energies from the environment. [Question]
Sensation
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[Answer] The process of transforming physical energy into electrochemical energy. [Question]
Transduction
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[Answer] The brain's process of organizing and interpreting sensory information to give it meaning. [Question]
Perception
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[Answer] Processing that begins with sensory receptors registering environmental information and sending it to the brain for analysis and interpretation. [Question]
Bottom-up Processing
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[Answer] Processing of perceptual information that starts out with cognitive processing at the higher levels of the brain. [Question]
Top-down Processing
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[Answer] Specialized cells that detect stimulus information and transmit it to sensory (afferent) nerves and the brain. [Question]
Sensory Receptors
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[Answer] The field that studies links between the physical properties of stimuli and a person's experience of them. [Question]
Psychophysics
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[Answer] The minimum amount of stimulus energy that a person can detect. [Question]
Absolute Threshold
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[Answer] Irrelevant and competing stimuli. [Question]
Noise
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[Answer] The detection of information below the level of conscious awareness. [Question]
Subliminal Perception
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[Answer] The smallest difference in stimulation required to discriminate one stimulus from another 50 percent of the time. [Question]
Difference Threshold
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[Answer] The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage (rather than a constant amount) to be perceived as different. [Question]
Weber's Law
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[Answer] The theory about perception that focuses on decision making about stimuli in the presence of uncertainty; detection depends on a variety of factors besides the physical intensity of the stimulus and the sensory abilities of the observer. [Question]
Signal Detection Theory
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[Answer] Focusing on a specific aspect of experience while ignoring others. [Question]
Selective Attention
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[Answer] A predisposition to perceive something in a particular way. [Question]
Perceptual Set
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[Answer] The light-sensitive surface in the back of the eye that records what we see and converts it to neural impulses for processing in the brain [Question]
Retina
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[Answer] The receptors in the retina that are sensitive to light but are not very useful for color vision. [Question]
Rods
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[Answer] The receptors in the retina that process information about color. [Question]
Cones
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[Answer] Neurons in the brain's visual system that respond to particular features of a stimulus. [Question]
Feature Detectors
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[Answer] The simultaneous distribution of information across different neural pathways. [Question]
Parallel Processing
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[Answer] The bringing together and integration of what is processed through different pathways or cells. [Question]
Binding
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[Answer] Theory stating that color perception is produced by three types of receptors (cone cells in the retina) that are particularly sensitive to different, but overlapping, ranges of wavelengths. [Question]
Trichromatic theory
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[Answer] Theory stating that cells in the visual system respond to red-green and blue yellow colors; a given cell might be excited by red and inhibited by green, whereas another might be excited by yellow and inhibited by blue. [Question]
Opponent-Process Theory
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[Answer] Principle by which individuals organize the perceptual field into stimuli that stand out (figure) and those that are left over (background, or ground) [Question]
Figure-Ground Relationship
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[Answer] School of psychology emphasizing that people naturally organize their perceptions according to certain patterns. [Question]
Gestalt Psychology
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[Answer] The ability to perceive objects three-dimensionally. [Question]
Depth Perception
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[Answer] Depth cues that are based on the combination of the images on the left and the right eyes and on the way the two eyes work together. [Question]
Binocular Cues
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[Answer] Depth Cues that are available from the image in either eye. [Question]
Monocular Cues
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[Answer] The perception that a stationary object is moving. [Question]
Apparent Movement
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[Answer] Recognition that objects are constant and unchanging even though sensory input about them is changing. [Question]
Perceptual Constancy
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[Answer] A discrepancy between reality and the perceptual representation of it. [Question]
Visual Illusion
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[Answer] Consists of Pinna and Auditory Canal. [Question]
Outer Ear
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[Answer] Consists of Eardrum, Hammer, Anvil, and Stirrup. [Question]
Middle Ear
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[Answer] Consists of the oval window, cochlea, and basilar membrane. [Question]
Inner Ear
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[Answer] The theory of hearing that states that each frequency produces vibrations at a particular spot on the basilar membrane. [Question]
Place Theory
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[Answer] Theory stating that perception of a sound's frequency depends on how often the auditory nerve fires. [Question]
Frequency Theory
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[Answer] Modification of frequency theory stating that a cluster of nerve cells can fire neural impulses in rapid succession, producing a volley of impulses. [Question]
Volley Principle
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[Answer] Nerve that carries neural impulses to the brain's auditory areas. [Question]
Auditory Nerve
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[Answer] Sensory receptors, located under the skin, that respond to changes in temperature at or near the skin and provide input to keep the body's temperature at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. [Question]
Thermoreceptors
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[Answer] The sensation that warns us of damage to our bodies. [Question]
Pain
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[Answer] Bumps on the tongue that contain taste buds, the receptors for taste. [Question]
Papillae
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[Answer] A sheet of receptor cells for smell that line sthe roof of the nasal cavity. [Question]
Olfactory Epithelium
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[Answer] Senses that provide information about movement, posture, and orientation. [Question]
Kinesthetic Senses
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[Answer] Senses that provide information about balance and movement. [Question]
Vestibular Sense
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[Answer] Structure in the inner ear containing the sensory receptors that detect head motion. [Question]
Semicircular Canals
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[Answer] Awareness of external events and internal sesations, including awareness of the self and thoughts about one's experiences; this awareness occurs under a condition of arousal. [Question]
Consciousness
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[Answer] James's concept that the mind is a continuous flow of changing sensations, images, thoughts and feelings. [Question]
Stream of Consciousness
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[Answer] The most alert states of consciousness, in which individuals actively focus their efforts toward a goal. [Question]
Controlled Processes
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[Answer] States of consciousness that require little attention and do not interfere with other ongoing activities. [Question]
Automatic Processes
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[Answer] Freud's concept of a reservoir of unacceptable wishes, feelings and thoughts that are beyond conscious awareness. [Question]
Unconscious Thought
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[Answer] Periodic physiological fluctuations in the body. [Question]
Biological Rhythms
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[Answer] A daily behavioral or physiological cycle, such as the sleep/wake cycle. [Question]
Circadian Rhythms
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[Answer] A small structure in the brain that synchronizes its own rhythm with the daily cycle of light and dark based on input from the retina. [Question]
Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)
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[Answer] Rapid eye movement sleep; stage 5 of sleep, in which dreaming occurs. [Question]
REM sleep
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[Answer] Theory proposing that dreaming can be understood by applying the same cognitive concepts used in studying the waking mind. [Question]
Cognitive Theory of Dreaming
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[Answer] Theory stating that dreaming occurs when the cerebral cortex synthesizes neural signals generated from activity in the lower part of the brain. [Question]
Activation-Synthesis Theory
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[Answer] An altered state of consciousness or simply a psychological state of altered attention and expectation, in which the individual is unusually receptive to suggestions. [Question]
Hypnosis
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[Answer] Perspective that views hypnosis as a normal state in which the hypnotized person behaves the way he or she believes a hypnotized person should behave. [Question]
Social Cognitive Behavior View of Hypnosis
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[Answer] Substances that act on the nervous system to alter consciousness, modify perceptions, and change. [Question]
Psychoactive Drugs
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[Answer] The need to take increasing amounts of a drug to produce the same effect. [Question]
Tolerance
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[Answer] The physiological need for a drug, accompanied by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms, such as pain and craving, when the drug is discontinued. [Question]
Physical Dependence
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[Answer] The strong desire to repeat the use of a drug for emotional reasons, such as a feeling of well-being and stress reduction. [Question]
Psychological Dependence
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[Answer] Either a physical or a psychological dependence, or both, on a drug. [Question]
Addiction
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[Answer] Psychoactive drugs that slow down mental and physical activity. [Question]
Depressants
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[Answer] A disorder that involves long-term, repeated, uncontrolled, compulsive and excessive use of alcoholic beverages and that impairs the drinker's health and social relationships. [Question]
Alcoholism
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[Answer] Depressant drugs that decrease the activity of the central nervous system. [Question]
Barbiturates
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[Answer] Depressant drugs that reduce anxiety and induce relaxation. [Question]
Tranquilizers
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[Answer] Opium and its derivatives; they depress the central nervous system's activity. [Question]
Opiates
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[Answer] Psychoactive drugs that increase the central nervous system's activity. [Question]
Stimulants
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[Answer] Psychoactive drugs that modify a person's perceptual experiences and produce visual images that are not real. [Question]
Hallucinogens
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[Answer] A relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs through experience. [Question]
Learning
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[Answer] A theory of learning that focuses solely on observable behaviors, discounting the importance of such mental activity as thinking, wishing and hoping. [Question]
Behaviorism
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[Answer] Learning in which a connection, or an association, is made between two events. [Question]
Associative Learning
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[Answer] Learning that occurs when a person observes and imitates another's behavior; also called imitation or modeling. [Question]
Observational Learning
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[Answer] Learning by which a neutral stimulus is associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response. [Question]
Classical Conditioning
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[Answer] A stimulus that produces a response without prior learning. [Question]
Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)
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[Answer] An unlearned response that is automatically elicited by an unconditioned stimulus. [Question]
Unconditioned Response (UCR)
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[Answer] A previously neutral stimulus that eventually elicits the conditioned response after being associated with the unconditioned stimulus. [Question]
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
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[Answer] The learned response to the conditioned stimulus that occurs after the pairing of a conditioned stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus. [Question]
Conditioned Response (CR)
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