01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Habituation, Phenotype
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Habituation - decreasing responsiveness to an unchanging stimulus; used to assess infant cognition. Cohort - the particular impact of a group bonded by time or common life experience. Longitudinal - a research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior. Cross-sectional - study in which people of different ages are compared with one another sequential (longitudinal-sequential) Genotype - genetic makeup of an organism (allele combo gg, gg, gg) Phenotype - the physical characteristics based on genetic make up (red hair, blue eyes) Maturation - physical (or biological) process of growth; believed to occur in mostly universal sequence, though timing varies from individual to individual.
