Chapter 6-8

Question 0

State in which thoughts, feelings, and sensations are clear and organized, and the person feels alert.

Answer 0

Waking consciousness

Question 1

A persons awareness of everything that is going on around him/her at any given moment, which is used to organize behavior.

Answer 1

Consciousness

Question 2

State in which there is a shift in the quality or pattern of mental activity as compared to waking consciousness.

Answer 2

Altered state of consciousness

Question 3

A cycle of bodily rhythm that occurs over a 24-hour period.

Answer 3

Circadian rhythm

Question 4

Brain waves that indicate a state of relaxation or light sleep.

Answer 4

Alpha waves

Question 5

Brain waves indicating the early stages of sleep

Answer 5

Theta waves

Question 6

Long, slow waves that indicate the deepest stage of sleep.

Answer 6

Delta waves

Question 7

The inability to get to sleep, stay asleep, or get a good quality of sleep.

Answer 7

Insomnia

Question 8

Disorder In which the person stops breathing for nearly half a minute or more.

Answer 8

Sleep Apnea

Question 9

Sleeping disorder in which a person falls immediately into REM sleep during the day without warning.

Answer 9

Narcolepsy

Question 10

Mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is organizing and attempting to understand information and communicating information to others.

Answer 10

Thinking(Cognition)

Question 11

The most specific category of concept, such as ones per dog or a Lear in ones hand.

Answer 11

Subordinate concept

Question 12

Concepts that are defined by specific rules or features

Answer 12

Formal concepts

Question 13

Concepts people form as a result of their experience in the real world.

Answer 13

Natural concepts

Question 14

An example of a concept that closely matches the defining characteristics of a concept

Answer 14

Prototype

Question 15

Process of cognition that occurs when a goal must be reached by thinking and behaving in certain ways.

Answer 15

Problem solving

Question 16

Problem-solving method in which one possible solution after another is tried until a successful one is found.

Answer 16

Trial and error(mechanical solution)

Question 17

The tendency for people to persist in using problem-solving patterns that have worked for the in the past.

Answer 17

Mental set

Question 18

Brain waves that indicate a person is wide awake and mentally active

Answer 18

Beta waves

Question 19

Type of thinking in which a problem is seen as having only one answer, and all lines of thinking will eventually lead to that single answer, using previous knowledge and logic.

Answer 19

Convergent thinking

Question 20

Type of thinking in which a person starts from one point and comes up with many different ideas or possibilities based on that point.

Answer 20

Divergent thinking

Question 21

Research design in which one participant or group of participants is studied over a long period of time.

Answer 21

Longitudinal design

Question 22

Research design in which several different age-groups of participants are studied at one particular point of time.

Answer 22

Cross-sectional design

Question 23

Referring to a gene that actively controls the expression of a trait.

Answer 23

Dominant

Question 24

Referring to a gene that influences the expression of a trait only when paired with an identical gene.

Answer 24

Recessive

Question 25

Identical twins formed when one zygote splits into two separate masses of cells, each of which develops into a separate embryo.

Answer 25

Monozygotic Twins

Question 26

Often called fraternal twins, occurring when two eggs each get fertilized by two different sperm, resulting in two zygotes in the uterus at the same time.

Answer 26

Dizygotic twins

Question 27

First two weeks after fertilization, during which the zygote moves down to the uterus and begins to implant in the lining.

Answer 27

Germinal period

Question 28

The period from two to eight weeks after fertilization, during which the major organs and structures of the organism develop.

Answer 28

Embryonic period

Question 29

The time from about eight weeks after conception until the birth of the child.

Answer 29

Fetal period

Question 30

The knowledge that an object exists even when it is not in sight.

Answer 30

Object permanence

Question 31

The inability to see the world through anyone else's eyes.

Answer 31

Egocentrism

Question 32

In piagets theory, the ability to understand that simply changing the appearance of an object does not change the objects nature.

Answer 32

Conservation

Question 33

The behavioral characteristics that are fairly well established at birth, difficult, and slow to warm up.

Answer 33

Temperament

Question 34

Style of parenting in which parent is rigid and overly strict, showing little warmth to the child

Answer 34

Authoritarian parenting

Question 35

Style of parenting in which parents make few, if any, demands on a child's behavior

Answer 35

Permissive Parenting

Question 36

Style of parenting in which parents combine warmth and affection with firm limits on a child's behavior.

Answer 36

Authoritative parenting