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| How does the brain develop through infancy, childhood, and adolescence? |
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| Development of which brain structure enables children to begin walking? |
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| What is the term that refers to our inability to remember our early childhood? |
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| When do most people start remembering their experiences? |
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What are assimilation and accommodation? For example, Baby Celesta sees a
goose and calls it a “ducky.” How would Piaget explain this? |
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Describe Piaget's four stages of cognitive development, and the major
developmental phenomena that occur during each stage (e.g. object permanence,
conservation, etc.). |
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What are Kohlberg's stages of moral development? What type of moral thinking
characterizes each stage? |
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Describe Harry Harlow's famous study with infant monkeys. What did it teach us
about attachment? |
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Describe Erickson's stages of psychosocial development we discussed in class.
What is the major issue associated with each stage? |
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| What is the difference between sensation and perception? |
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| What is meant by top-down processing? Bottom-up? |
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Define and give examples of absolute threshold and difference threshold. What is
another name for difference threshold? |
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| What is the sensory adaptation? Prosopagnosia? Phantom limb syndrome? |
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| What are the physical characteristics of light? |
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How does light pass through structures in the eye? That is, what is the sequence of
structures through which light passes as it travels through the eye? |
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| What is the blindspot and what causes it? |
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Describe the difference between rods and cones? How are their purposes
different? |
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| What is the Gestalt principles of form-ground? |
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| What is depth perception? |
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What is the visual cliff? What do we know about whether infants cross the visual
cliff when encouraged by parents? |
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Explain the difference between binocular and monocular cues. What is retinal
disparity? Interposition? Relative size? Linear perspective? |
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| What is perceptual constancy? Explain the different types |
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| How do psychologists define "consciousness"? |
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| Explain automaticity and selective attention |
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| What is the circadian rhythm? How does light influence our circadian rhythm? |
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| How long does the sleep cycle last? |
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