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Within what time frame does a fetus have its first division? How often after that? - Answer Around the 24 hour mark; every 12-15 hours Period of time for fetal muscular and skeletal growth - Answer 25-51 days When would you find out if the fetus is male or female - Answer Around 12 weeks The month that the average fetus is delivered - Answer 8 months What is a Teratogen? - Answer Anything that causes irregularities during fetal development What is Fet...

cognition - Answer all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating concept - Answer a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people prototype theory - Answer a theory in which concepts or word meanings are formed around average or typical values category boundary - Answer Where the function of identification is at 50% Algorithm - Answer A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solv...

Behavioral genetics - Answer Study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior; A technique for assessing the relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors in behavior Environment - Answer Every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us Behavioral genetics - Answer Assumes behavior has causes that can be lumped into 2 broad categories: Genetic Factors and Environmental factors ...

the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another - Answer social psychology Norman Triplet in the 20th century - worked with athletes (cyclists) - Answer how did social psychology start? we perform better when surrounded by other people - Answer social facilitation use scientific methods to study how people think about, influence, and relate to one another; they study the social influences that explain why the same person will act differ...

sensation - Answer the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment. sensory receptors - Answer Specialized cells unique to each sense organ that respond to a particular form of sensory stimulation. perception - Answer the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events Bottom-up processing - Answer analysis that begins with...

motivation - Answer a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior four theories of motivations - Answer instinct, drive-reduction, arousal, hierarchy of needs instinct theory - Answer focuses on genetically predisposed behaviors drive-reduction theory - Answer the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need arousal theory - Answer focuses on finding the right level of sti...

psychology - Answer the scientific study of behavior and mental processes empirical method - Answer method for acquiring knowledge based on observation, including experimentation, rather than a method based only on forms of logical argument or previous authorities structuralism - Answer understanding the conscious experience through introspection introspection - Answer process by which someone examines their own conscious experience in an attempt to break it into...

hindsight bias - Answer the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it critical thinking - Answer thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions; it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions theory - Answer an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events hypothesis - Answer a testable prediction, ...

major issues developmental psychology focuses on - Answer nature v nurture, continuity and stages, stability and change stable and less stable? - Answer personality = stable; social attitudes = less stable fetuses responsive to sound - Answer 6 months - prefer mother's language and voice teratogens - Answer disease, drug, environmental gent that can harm a developing fetus when are teratogens most effective - Answer during critical period - first 6 to...

Socrates/Plato - Answer We inherit character and intelligence; certain ideas are inborn; favor nature over nurture Aristotle - Answer There is nothing in the mind that does not first come in from the external world through the senses; favor nurture Structuralism - Answer Early psychological school of thought based on introspection William James - Answer Adaptive functions area result of natural selection Functionalism - Answer Explored how mental and beh...