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Chapter 17: extrafamilial influences: television, computers, schools, and peers. Extrafamillial influences: social agencies other than the family that

Socialization: the process by which children acquire the beliefs, values, and behaviors considered desirable or appropriate by their culture or subcult

Chapter 14 - sex differences and similarities, gender-role development, and sexual. Sex refers to a person"s biological identity: his or her chromosome

Chapter 13: development of the self and social cognition. Self: the combination of physical and psychological attributes that is unique to each individ

Chapter 12 - emotional development, temperament, and attachment. Displaying emotions: the development (and control) of emotional expressions. Izard"s p

Piaget defined it as adaptive thinking or action. Psychometric approach: a theoretical perspective that portrays intelligence as a trait (or set of tra

Chapter 11: development of language and communication skills. Language: a small number of individually meaningless symbols (sounds, letters, gestures)

Mind similar to computer: limited capacity, hardware (nervous system), software information-processing perspective and (strategies) Multistore model: i

Chapter 8 - cognitive development: piaget"s theory, case"s neo-piagetian, vygotsky"s. Genetic epistemology: the experimental study of the development o

Chapter 6 - physical development: the brain, body, motor skills, and sexual. Grow very rapidly during first 2 years, doubling birth weight by 4 to 6 mo

Prenatal development: development that occurs between the moment of conception and the beginning of the birth process. Time when all the major organs a

Theory: set of concepts and propositions that describes, organizes, and explains a set of observations. Falsifiable - capable of making explicit predic

Conception: the moment when an ovum released by a woman"s ovary and on its way to the uterus via the fallopian tube is fertilized by a man"s sperm to f

Early controversies about sensory and perceptual development. They recognize that the perceptual world of a human neonate is limited and both maturatio

After all the deforestation for making cattle land the major compacting of the land made it impossible to plant anything in the baron land. In bc mix s

Distinguish between human impact on the environment and environmental impact on humans. Human impact on the environment is our direct influence on how

Functions of the genetic material: the genotypic function, replication. The genetic material must store genetic information and accurately transmit tha

Composed of globular subunits of protein actin. Actin filaments will interact in a highly specific manner with the protein myosin. Before it is incorpo

Consists of a long hollow tube gastrointestinal (gi) tract: begins at the mouth and continues to the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large int

Straw colored liquid that makes up about 55% of blood. Transports substances to the cells, and carries away cellular wastes. Most of the dissolved subs

Endocrine glands: made of secretory cells that release their products, called hormones. Endocrine system: consists of endocrine glands and of organs th

It is not a complete study guide, i"m merely giving you guys some review of the key concepts as well as pointing out some things to watch for, common m

Eukaryotic dna is supercoiled: aids in chromatin packaging. H1, h2a, h2b, h3, h4: conserved proteins, basic, arginine and lysine - abundant - interact

Evolution: the study of both adaptive and non-adaptive change over time in populations, the origin and extinction of species, and the relationships amo

Hypothesis: a proposed explanation for a fairly narrow set of phenomena usually based on prior experience, scientific background knowledge, preliminary

Biodiversity is the variety of genes, species and ecosystems. Shaped by billions of years of evolutionary history of life forms interactions with each

Hypothesis: a proposed explanation for a fairly narrow set of phenomena usually based on prior experience, scientific background knowledge, preliminary

Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and the mind. Behaviour: actions and responses that we can directly observe. Mind: internal states and

Conscious mind contains thoughts, perceptions, and other mental events of which we are currently aware. Preconscious mental events are outside current

Genotype: genetic makeup of an individual. (never changes) Phenotype: observable characteristics produced by that genetic endowment. (can be affected b

Gap junctions: link adjacent cells and are formed by plasma membrane proteins, called connexins, that form structures called connexons. Connexons form

Theory: a well-supported and wide-ranging explanation of some aspect of the physical universe. Statistical significance: a measure of the possibility t

Deductive reasoning: begins with a general statement that leads logically to one or more deductions, or conclusions. (from psyc: reasoning from the top

Stat*2040 fall 2012: a test statistic value of z = !1. 34 was obtained when a test for the equality of binomial proportions, h : o. 2 p = p versus h :

Chapter one of technology in action: why computers matter to. Computer literate: being familiar enough with computers that you understand their capabil