FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC 206 UNIT 1 EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC 206 UNIT 1 EXAM

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Question 1: Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory

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Bronfenbrenner's environmental systems theory focuses on five environmental systems: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem

Question 2: Passive Genotype-Environment Correlations

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Correlations that exist when the biological parents, who are genetically related to the child, provide a rearing environment for the child Question 3: What mechanisms help infants survive before they have an opportunity to learn adaptive behavior?

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Reflexes

Question 4: Organogenesis

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Process of organ formation that takes place during the first 2 months of prenatal development

Question 5: Rodin and Langer (1977) conducted a study in which one group of nursing home patients was given increased control over daily routines, while another group was not. The main finding in this study was that ______.

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More perceived control improved the lives of the patients Question 6: Which of the following BEST describes the relationship between sensation and perception?

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Perception cannot occur unless sensation takes place first

Question 7: During which stage of childbirth does the cervix dilate?

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First

Question 8: Low Birth Weight Infants

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Infants who weight less than 5 1/2 lbs at birth

Question 9: Apgar Scale

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A widely used method to assess the health of newborns at one and five minutes after birth; it evaluates an infant's respiratory effort, heart rate, muscle tone, body color, and reflex irritability

Question 10: Rooting Reflex

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A newborn's built-in reaction to turn its head toward a stimuli when their cheek or side of mouth is touched in effort to find something to suck Question 11: We know that fetuses can hear before birth because newborns ________.

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Show specific responses for sounds presented repeatedly before birth

Question 12: Fragile X Syndrome (FXS)

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A chromosomal disorder involving an abnormality in the X chromosome, which becomes constricted and often breaks, more common in males and often leads to intellectual disability

Question 13: Theory

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An interrelated, coherent set of ideas that helps to explain phenomena and make predictions

Question 14: Descriptive Research

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A type of research that aims to observe and record behavior Question 15: Which of the following principles is demonstrated when one gene overrides the potential effect of a second gene?

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Dominant-Recessive Genes

Question 16: Correlation Coefficient

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A number based on a statistical analysis that is used to describe the difference between two variables Question 17: People suffering from anorexia use food and their weight as a means of _______.

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Control

Question 18: Pathological Aging

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Characterizes individuals who show greater than average declines as they age through the adult years, may have mild cognitive impairment in early old age or be impaired by daily functioning

Question 19: Normative History-Graded Influences

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Influences that are common to people in a particular generations because of historical circumstances

Question 20: What are Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development?

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0-2: Sensorimotor Stage

2-7: Preoperational Stage

7-1: Concrete Operational Stage

11-15: Formal Operational Stage

Question 21: Klinefelter Syndrome

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A chromosomal disorder in which males have an extra X chromosome, making them XXY instead of XY, may lead to undeveloped testes, enlarged breasts, and tall height

Question 22: Genetic Imprinting

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Occurs when genes have differing effects depending on whether they are inherited by the mother or the father which often silences the other gene

Question 23: Cross-Sectional Approach

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A research strategy in which individuals of different ages are compared one at a time

Question 24: Developmental Social Neuroscience

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Examines connections between socioemotional processes, development, and the brain Question 25: Of the following developmental periods, most traditional undergraduate college students would be experiencing _____.

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Emerging Adulthood

Question 26: Stability-Change Issue

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Debate as to what degree we become older renditions of our earlier selves (stability) or whether we develop into someone different from who we were previously (change)