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| process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energy |
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| the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events |
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not a one to one correspondence between physical and psychological reality
sensation and perception are adaptive they are active |
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| detect energy and translate physical stimulation to neural signals |
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| bare minimum to detect stimulus 50% of the time |
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| The proportion of variation across the population that we can attribute to genes |
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| find two correlations, subtract them, multiply by 2 |
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| we learn behavior by observing |
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| children form concepts of gender |
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| A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive and social change throughout the life span |
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| all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communication |
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| a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information |
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| interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas |
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| adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information |
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| zone of proximal development |
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| parents help kid do something they couldn't do on their own |
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| children develop in stages, development not continuous |
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| 0-2 experience the world through senses, stranger anxiety and object permanence |
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| 2-6 words and images, lack reasoning, egocentrism, pretend play |
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| 7-11 think logically math, games. conservation skils |
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| 12- abstractly, moral reasoning |
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| encompasses the changes in feeling, interpersonal thought and behavior across the lifespan |
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| oral anal phallic latency genital |
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| speculate that humans have a drive for intimacy and relatedness |
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| and enduring emotional tie btw child and caretaker |
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| secure avoidant ambivalent disorganized |
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| as moral development progresses, the focus of concern moves from self to be wider |
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| diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation |
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| focusing of awareness on a particular stimulus |
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| the light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing receptor rods and cones plus layers of neurons that begin the processing of visual information |
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| peripheral retina receptors, black gray white |
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| near center of retina, color and detail well lit conditions |
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| Process by which chemicals in the receptors break down, creating action potentials in the retina |
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| determined by wavelength, dimension of color |
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| trichromatic color theory |
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| nerve cells that respond to specific things, angles, shape |
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| proximity, similarity, continuity, connectedness |
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| depth perception, motion, perspective, height |
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