FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP_UNIT 9 EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP_UNIT 9 EXAM

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Question 1: Testosterone

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The most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional testosterone in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty.

Question 2: Age of Adolescence

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In industrialized societies adolescence begins earlier in life and ends later in life. Today's earlier female sexual maturation is especially likely among overweight girls in father-absent homes.

Question 3: Identity

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Our sense of self. According to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles.

Question 4: Physical Changes in Later Adulthood

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Older people are NOT increasingly susceptible to common cold viruses. As people progress through late adulthood, they typically experience a slight decrease in brain weight.

Question 5: Jean Piaget

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Studied how children develop cognition - their abilities to think, know, and remember. Piaget was convinced that the mind of a child develops through a series of stages.

Question 6: Conservation

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The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.

Question 7: Stability and Change

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Refers to the debate about whether personality traits present in an individual at birth remain constant or change throughout the lifespan.

Question 8: Adolescence

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A phase of development that extends from the beginning of sexual maturity to independent adulthood.

Question 9: Object Permanence

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The awareness that things continue to exist even when they are not perceived.

Question 10: Cross-Sectional Study

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A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another.

Question 11: Longitudinal Study

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Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period. The idea that adult intelligence declines with age has been challenged most effectively by longitudinal research.

Question 12: Continuity and Stages

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Refers to the debate whether development is solely and evenly continuous or whether it is marked by age-specific periods. Theories of human development have been criticized for overemphasizing discrete age-linked stages.

Question 13: Zone of Proximal Development

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Is what a child can and cannot do - it's what the child can do with help.

Question 14: Foster Care (Attachment)

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Foster care that moves a young child through a series of foster families is most likely to result in the disruption of attachment.

Question 15: Daycare (Attachment)

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Family poverty increases the likelihood of receiving both lower-quality day care and authoritarian parenting. Problem behaviours are more likely to be associated with a child's temperament than with the amount of time the child spends in day care.

Question 16: Gender Role

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Refers to a set of expected behaviours for males and females. The social roles assigned to women and men differ widely across cultures.

Question 17: Intersex

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Individuals who are both with incomplete or unusual combinations of male and female physical features.

Question 18: Lawrence Kohlberg

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Developed a theory of moral development. Emphasized that children's moral judgments build on their cognitive development.He emphasized that human behaviour becomes less selfish as we mature.

Question 19: Habituation

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Decreasing responsiveness to a stimulus to which one is repeatedly exposed. Research on habituation provides evidence that 4-month-old infants possess visual memory capabilities. Newborns can visually discriminate between various shapes and colours.

Question 20: X Chromosome

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The sex chromosome found in both men and women. Females have two X chromosomes; male have one.

Question 21: Nature and Nurture

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Refers to the debate about the relative contribution of genetic inheritance and experiences in our development.

Question 22: Gender Schemas

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Children tend to organize their worlds into male and female categories. Gender typing is a product of established gender schemas.

Question 23: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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When a pregnant woman drinks alcohol heavily, she puts her unborn child at risk for fetal alcohol syndrome. Symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome include brain abnormalities.

Question 24: Simon Baron-Cohen

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Proposed that autism is indicative of an inborn male systemizing tendency.

Question 25: Puberty

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The period of rapid physical development and the onset of reproductive capability.