Psychology Mods 10-21 – Flashcards

MOD 10: Which of the following is NOT one of the three major issues that interest developmental psychologists? A. Nature/nurture B. Reflexes/unlearned behaviors C. Stability/change

Developmental researchers who emphasize learning and experience tend to believe in ______; those who emphasize biological maturation tend to believe in _______.

Although development is lifelong, there is stability of personality over time. For example, ___________

Body organs first begin to form and function during the period of the ______; within 6 months, during the period of the _______, the organs are sufficiently functional to allow a chance of survival.

Teratogens are chemicals that pass through the placenta's screen and may harm an embryo or fetus. Which of the following is NOT a teratogen: Oxygen, Heroin, Alcohol, Nicotine

Stroke a newborn's cheek and the infant will root for a nipple. This illustrates what?

MOD 11: Maturation, the orderly sequence of biological growth, explains what?

Between ages 3 and 6, the human brain experiences the greatest growth in the ______ lobes, which we use for rational planning, and which continue developing at least into adolescence.

Which of the following is true of motor-skill development? a. It is determined solely by genetic factors. b. the sequence, but not the timing, is universal. c. the timing, but not the sequence, is universal.

During the preoperational stage, a young child's thinking is?

Children acquire the mental operations necessary to understand conservation during which stage?

Although Piaget's stage theory continues to inform our understanding of children's thinking, many researchers believe what?

Faced with a new babysitter, an 8 month old infant often shows distress, a behavior referred to as?

In a series of experiments, the Harlows found that monkeys raised with artificial mothers tended, when afraid, to cling to?

From the very first weeks of life, infants differ in their characteristic emotional reactions, with some infants being intense and anxious, while others are easygoing and relaxed. These differences are usually explained as differences in?

MOD 12: Adolescence is marked by the onset of?

Primary sex characteristics relate to _____; secondary sex characteristics refer to ______.

Accordingly to Piaget, the ability to think logically about abstractions indicates what?

According to Kohlberg, preconventional morality focuses on ______; conventional morality is more concerned with ______.

In Erikson's stages, the primary task during adolescence is?

Some developmental psychologists now refer to the period from age 18 to the mid 20's and beyond as?

MOD 13: By age 65, a person would be most likely to experience a cognitive decline in the ability to?

Freud defined the healthy adult as one who is able to love and work. Erikson agreed, observing that the adult struggles to attain intimacy and?

Contrary to what many people assume, A. Older people are much happier then adolescents. B. Men in their forties express much greater dissatisfaction with life than do women of the same age. C. People of all ages report similar levels of happiness

MOD 14: Sensation is to ________ as perception is to ______.

To construct meaning from our external environment, we organize and interpret sensory information. This is the process of?

Subliminal stimuli, such as undetectably faint sights or sounds, are?

Another term for the difference threshold is?

Weber's law states that for a difference to be perceived, two stimuli must differ by?

Sensory adaptation has survival benefits because it helps us focus on?

The physical characteristic of light that determines the color we experience, such as blue or green, is?

The blind spot in your retina is located in an area where

Cones are the eye's receptor cells that are especially sensitive to _____ light and are responsible for our ______ vision.

The brain cells that respond maximally to certain bars, edges, and angles are called?

The brain's ability to process many aspects of an object or problem simultaneously is called?

Two theories together account for color vision. The Young-Helmholtz _______, and the Hering theory accounts for the nervous system's having _____.

MOD 15: The amplitude of a sound wave determines our perception of?

The frequency of sound waves determines their pitch. The ______ the waves are, the lower their frequency is and the ______ their pitch.

The snail-shaped tube in the inner ear, where sound waves are converted into neural activity, is called the?

The vestibular sense monitors the body's position and movement. Vestibular sense receptors are located in the?

Of all the skin senses, only ______ has its own identifiable receptor cells.

The gate control theory of pain proposes that

A food's smell or aroma can greatly enhance its taste. This is an example of?

MOD 16: