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ABSC 160 Exam 1 Latest Updated Graded A+Accommodation - ANSWER-Changing your mental schemas so they fit new
experiences.
Active niche picking - ANSWER-A process in which people express their genetic
tendencies by finding environments that match and enhance those tendencies.
Anal stage - ANSWER-Freud's second stage, in which toddlers' sexual energy is
focused on the anus.
Applied research - ANSWER-Research that has the primary goal of solving problems or
improving the human conditions.
Assimilation - ANSWER-Fitting new experiences into existing mental schemas.
Attrition - ANSWER-The loss of participants over the course of a longitudinal study.
Basic research - ANSWER-Research that has the primary goal of adding to our body of
knowledge rather than having immediate application.
Behavioral genetics - ANSWER-Research to determine the degree of genetic basis for
a behavior, a trait or an ability.
Behavioral genomics - ANSWER-Research that links behaviors with specific genes.
Behaviorism - ANSWER-Theory of John B. Watson that focuses on environmental
control of observable behavior.
Canalization - ANSWER-The degree to which the expression of a gene is influenced by
the environment.
Case study - ANSWER-An in-depth study of a single individual or small group of
individuals which uses multiple methods of study.
Classical conditioning - ANSWER-The process by which a stimulus that naturally
evokes a certain response is paired repeatedly with a neutral stimulus.
Clinical interview - ANSWER-An interview technique in which the interviewer can
deviate from a standard set of questions to gather additional information.
Cognitive development - ANSWER-Changes in the way we think, understand, and
reason about the world.
, Cohort effect - ANSWER-Differences between groups in a cross-sectional or cross-
sequential study that are attributable to the fact that the participants have had different
life experiences.
Connectionist/neural network model - ANSWER-in this model of memory, the processes
is envisioned as a neural network that consists of concept nodes that are
interconnected by links.
Constructivism - ANSWER-The idea that humans actively construct their understanding
of the world, rather than passively receiving knowledge.
Control group - ANSWER-The group in an experiment that does not get the special
treatment and provides a baseline against which the experimental group can be
compared.
Correlation - ANSWER-A measure of the strength and direction of the relationship
between two variables.
Cross-sectional design - ANSWER-A research design that uses multiple groups of
participants who represent that age span of interest to the researcher.
Cross-sequential design - ANSWER-A research design that uses multiple groups of
participants and follows them over a period of time, with the beginning age of each
group being the ending age of another group.
Dependent variable - ANSWER-The outcome of interest to the researcher that is
measured at the end of an experiment.
Developmental psychopathology - ANSWER-An approach that sees mental and
behavioral problems as distortions of normal developmental processes rather than as
illnesses.
Dynamic assessment - ANSWER-A testing procedure that uses a test-intervene-test
procedure to assess the examinee's potential to change.
Ego - ANSWER-The part of the personality that contends with the reality of the world
and controls the basic drives.
Encoding processes - ANSWER-The transformation processes through which new
information is stored in long-term memory.
Epigenetic principle - ANSWER-The idea that each stage of development builds on the
outcome of the stages that preceded it.
Equifinality - ANSWER-Different developmental pathways may result in the same
outcome.
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