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| Critical Period | An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stumuli or experiences produces proper development. |
| Implicit Memory | Retention independent of conscious recollection. Also called procedural memory. |
| Dejavu | The sense that "I've experienced this before." Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience. |
| Homeostasis | A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal states;the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level. |
| Attachment | Develops at about 12months. Children cling to their parents when frightened or when they think they will be separated. |
| Reflex | A simple, automatic, inborn response to a sensory stimulus such as the knee-jerk response. |
| Survey | Self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people, by questioning a representative |
| Independent Variable | The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied. |
| Hypothesis | A testable prediction, often implied by a theory. |
| Alpha Waves | The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state. |
| Attribution Theory | The theory that we tend to give a casual explanation for someone's behavior, often by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition. How people explain others' behavior. |
| Adolescence | The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence. |
| Axon | The extension of a neuron, ending in branching terminal fibers, through which messages pass to other neurons or to muscles or glands. |
| Puberty | The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing. |
| Nervous System | The body's speedy, electrochemical communication system. |
| Thalamus | The brain's sensory switchboard, located on top of the brainstem; it divects messages to the sonsory receiving areas in the cortex and transmits replies to the crebellum and medulla. |
| Latent content | According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream (as distinct from its manifest content). Freud believed that a dream's latent content functions as a safety value. |
| REM rebound | The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakenings during REM sleep). |
| Foot-in-the-door Phenomenon | The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request. |
| Natural selection | Among the trait variations, lead to increased reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations. |
