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| all the mental activities associated with thinking,knowing,remnbering and communicating |
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| A concept framework that prganizes and interprets information |
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| Interpreting one's new experience of ones exiting scemas |
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| adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information. |
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| piagets theory ,in from birith to about 2 years of age during witch infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities |
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| the awareness that things continiue to exist even when not percieved |
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| in piagets's thory , in witch (2 years to 6 or 7 years of age) during wich a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehand the mental operations of concrete logic |
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| the principle (wich piaget belive to ba part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass,valume and number remains the same despite changes in the forms of objects. |
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| in paigets theory, the preoperation child's difficulty talking another's point of view. |
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| an optimal period shortly after birth when organism exposure to certain stimuli or experiances produces proper develpment |
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| is the first menstrual period |
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| the process by witch some animals form attachments during crtical period of early life |
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| A emotional tie woth another person |
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| A sence that the world is predictable and trustworthy;said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiances with responsive caregivers. |
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| One's sence of self;the adolescent's task is to solidify a sence of self by testing and integrating various roles. |
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| the ability to form close loving relationships; a primary developmental task in late adolesence and early adulthood |
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| The last period in a womans life |
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| one's accumuleted knowledge and verbal skills ;tends to incrase with age . |
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| One's ability to reason speedy andabstracly ,tends to decrese during late adoulthood |
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| the munimum difference betwen 2 stimuli required for detection 50% of the time . |
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| the activation,often inconscily of certain associations. |
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| the cultural prefered timing for major social events(marriage,parenthood,retiment) |
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| the process by which our sensory recptors and nervouse system resive and represent to stimulus energy from our enviroment |
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| analisys that works it way up to the brain |
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| the process of organazing and interpreting information,enabling us to recognaize maningful objects and events |
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| the study of relationships between the physycal chararteristics of stimuli,suck has their intecity |
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| the minumum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of time |
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| below one's absolute threshold for concious awarness |
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| diminished sensitivity as a consequance of costant stimulation |
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| The dimension of color that is determine by the wavelength of light;what we know as the colornames like blue green blah blah blah |
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| the distance from of the peek of one light wave to the peek of another |
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| the amount of energy in a light or sound wave that perceive as brightness or laoudness as determined by the waves amp |
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| the light sensitive inner surface of the eye |
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| the process by witch the eye`s lens change shape to focus near or far objects |
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| retinal recptors that detect balck and white and gray |
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| the retinal recptors that funtion in daylight or in well lit conditions.detect detail and color sesations. |
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| the nerevr that carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain |
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| the central focal point in the ratina |
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| Young-Helmholtz tricromatic theory |
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| red, green and blue all make all the colors when combine |
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| theory that red-green,yellow-blue,white-black enables color vision . |
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| the number of complete wavelengths that pass a point |
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| a point expiriance hightness and lowness |
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| a coiled,bony fluid-filled tube in witch sound waves triger nerver impulses |
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| the principle that one sence might influance another |
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| alow us to judge distance |
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| Our awareness of ourselves and our enviroment |
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| rapid eye movement stage of sleep during witch vivid dreams commonly occur. |
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| false sensative expiriance |
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| the large waves during deep sleep |
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| relaxed slow brain waves awake |
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| a sleep disoder by uncontrolable sleep atacks |
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| a sleep desoder in witch temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings |
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| a problem that you cant sleep |
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| a sequance of images,emotions and thougths passing troght a sleeping persons mind. |
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| according to freud the recomended stroy line of a dream |
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| the underying meaning of a dream |
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| the tendency for rem sleep to increase fallowing REM sleep deprevartion |
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| a social interaction in witch one person sugest to another person certains perceptions |
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| drugs like (alcahol)that reduces naural activity and slow body funtions |
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| drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgment |
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| opium and is derivatives,such as morphine and heroin;they depress naural activity,temporarily lessening pain and anxiety. |
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| Drugs(such as caffeine,nicotine,and the more powerful amphetamines,cocaine,and ecstasy)that excite and speed up body funtions |
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| drugs that speed up body funtions |
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| a powerful adictive drug that stimulates the central nerous system |
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| a syntethic stimulant and mild hallucigen. |
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| drugs like LSD that disort preceptions |
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| powerful hallucigen drug AKA acid |
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