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development psychologists study physical, cognitive, and ____________ changes.

during the course of successful prenatal development a human organism begins as a zygote and develops into __________.

a teratogen is a ____________.

with repeated presentation of a bright red toy, 2 month old Anita began to respond with less visual attention to the toy. Her decreasing responsiveness best illustrates _____________.

maturation refers to ________.

our earliest conscious memories seldom predate our third birthday. this best illustrates _________.

infant motor development is typically characterized by individual differences in __________ of major development milestones.

cognition refers to _________.

piaget was convinced that the mind of a child develops through a series of ________.

piaget stages of cognitive development are _________, ________, __________, _________.

incorporating new information into existing theories is to _______ as modifying existing theories in light of new information is to ________.

according to piaget, egocentrism refers to

if children cannot grasp the principle of conversation, they are unable to _________.

piaget emphasized how the chid's mind grows through interaction with the physical environment. Vygotsky emphasized how the child mind grows through

to assess attachment differences among infants, Mary Ains worth placed them in a laboratory setting called

in a pleasant but unfamiliar setting, infants with secure mental attachment are most likely to

at about 8 months, children become increasingly likely to react to newcomers with tears and distress. this best illustrates

a critical period is a phase during which

which of the following factors contributes most positively to the development of secure attachment between human infants and their mothers?

parents who are demanding and yet sensitively respond to their children are said to be

adolescence extends from

the body structures that enable reproduction are the

puberty is most closely related to the onset of

according to kohlberg, post conventional morality involves

16 year old brenda questions her parents values but does not fully accept her friends standards either. her confusion about what she really wants and values in life suggests that brenda is struggling with the problem of

menopause refers to

most 20 year olds out perform most 70 year olds on video games due to age related differences in

abner, a 70 year old retired teacher feels that his life has not been of any real value of significance. according to erickson, abner has failed to achieve a sense of

the process of receiving and representing stimulus energies by the nervous system is called

perception is the process by which

the minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time is called the

the minimum difference between 2 stimuli required for detection 50 percent of the time is called

three steps that are basic to all sensory systems include the ________ of information to the brain

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after listening to your high volume car stereo for 15 minutes, you fail to realized how loudly the music is blasting. this best illustrates

a perceptual set is a mental predisposition that influences what we

on the way to the visual cortex, neural impulses from the retina are first relayed to the

what is the young helmholtz theory?

the perception of an object as distinct from its surrounds is called

the principles of continuity and closure best illustrates that

the perceptional tendency to fill in gaps in order to perceive disconnected parts as a whole object is called

infants who were exposed to the visual cliff

our sense of hearing is known as

on the way to the temporal lobe's auditory cortex, neural impulses from the auditory nerve are first relayed to the

a timelong between left and right auditory stimulation is important for accurately

the sense of touch includes four basic sensations of

the classic gate control theory suggest that a pain is experienced when small nerve fibers activate and open a neural gate in the

the sense of _______ is a chemical sense

our sense of the position and movement of individual body parts is called

sensory receptors in your vestibular sacs enable you to maintain your sense of __________.