PSYC 1160 Study Guide - Final Guide: Prenatal Development, Pubic Hair, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
10 Feb 2017
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1. 9th: week in which the heart of a fetus begins to beat. 2. 18: the human brain begins to develop a mere ____ days after fertilization. 3. accommodation: piaget; altering of a belief to make it more compatible with experience. 4. accommodation: ex: when children recognize and use novel categories of dogs, horses, etc. for furry four- legged animals. 5. accommodation: drives change by forcing children to enter a new way of looking at the world. 6. active,passive: learning is an ___ rather than ___ process. 7. adolescence: the transition between childhood and adulthood commonly associated with the teenage years. 8. androgens: in girls, induces physical growth and growth of pubic hair. 10. assimilation: piaget; process of absorbing new experience into current knowledge structures. 11. assimilation: ex: when children label every furry four-legged creature as a cat, or everything that swims in water as a fish. 12. attrition: when participants drop out of a study before it is completed.
