Myers 7th Edition - Chapter 04 Vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| show | A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo.
🗑
|
||||
| Embryo | show 🗑
|
||||
| Fetus | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal developement and cause harm.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions.
🗑
|
||||
| show | A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open the mouth and search for the nipple.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner.
🗑
|
||||
| Maturation | show 🗑
|
||||
| Schema | show 🗑
|
||||
| Assimilation | show 🗑
|
||||
| Accommodation | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
🗑
|
||||
| Sensorimotor stage | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.
🗑
|
||||
| show | In Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.
🗑
|
||||
| Egocentrism | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | People's idea about their own and others' mental states - about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict.
🗑
|
||||
| show | A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind.
🗑
|
||||
| show | In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive developement (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events.
🗑
|
||||
| Formal operational stage | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age.
🗑
|
||||
| Attachment | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produce proper developement.
🗑
|
||||
| Imprinting | show 🗑
|
||||
| Basic trust | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A sense of one's identity and personal worth.
🗑
|
||||
| Adolescence | show 🗑
|
||||
| Puberty | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The body structures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) that make sexual reproduction possible.
🗑
|
||||
| Secondary sex characteristics | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The first menstrual period.
🗑
|
||||
| show | One's sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles.
🗑
|
||||
| Intimacy | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines.
🗑
|
||||
| Alzheimer's disease | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period.
🗑
|
||||
| show | One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.
🗑
|
||||
| Fluid intelligence | show 🗑
|
||||
| Social clock | show 🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
shellenberger
Popular Psychology sets