| A | B |
|---|
| homeostasis | balance - the goal if drive reduction theory |
| imprinting | a baby instsantly creates the neural networks needed to remember their caregivers smell, and sounds |
| schemas | frameworks that organize and interrprets infromation |
| Conventional morality | self-interest, children obey either to avoid punishment or gain rewards |
| aristotle | believed that the mind and body was one and that knowloedge was not innate, insted it grows from experiance |
| Behaviorism | the science of psychology should only focus on observable behavior |
| eclectic approach | multiple perscpective |
| F.A.S | alcohal reaches the fetus through the bloddstream and depresses CNS function causing mental retardation and physical abnormalities |
| stranger anxiety | this develops when object permenance and when the child becomes mobile |
| alzheimers disease | destroys first memory; the reasoning, the language |
| fluid intelligence | ability to reason quickly and abstractly - this decreases over time |
| hypotheses | predictions |
| empiricism | knowledge originates in experiance and science shoudl rely on observation and experimentation |
| psychoanalysis | the unconscious mind determines the way we think and feel |
| polygraph | measures arousal such as breathing, pulse rate, blood pressures and perspiration. |
| deception | we can detect easily if someone likes or dislikes us. |
| illusory correlation | The perception of a relationship where none exists |
| Thalamus | The brain's sensory switchboard, located on top of the brainstem |
| Standard Deviation | A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score |
| Memory | The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information |
