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What is the belief that one's culture is superior to another?

What term describes appreciating cultural differences and being open-minded to other cultures?

What is the brain's ability to adapt and change throughout life based on experiences?

What encompasses the shared values, beliefs, customs, and practices that characterize a group or society?

What is the term for the number of years since birth, also known as actual age?

What is a person's age in terms of their biological health, which can differ from chronological age?

What term describes cognitive capacity compared to others of the same chronological age?

What are the periods of development from prenatal to late adulthood?

What is the debate about whether human behavior is determined by innate biological factors or environmental influences?

What is the idea that development is gradual and cumulative, with changes occurring steadily over time?

What concept asks how much you play a role in your own development versus being at the hands of genetic inheritance?

What concept poses the question of similarities between you today and you as a child?

Who was the Austrian physician obsessed with the unconscious mind and its influence on behavior?

What developmental theory explains how individuals grow throughout their lifespan with eight stages of psychosocial development?

What is the term for the unique challenge or crisis each life period presents, according to Erikson?

What theory focuses on how individuals learn new behaviors through conditioning and reinforcement?

What theory suggests people learn new behaviors by observing others and the consequences of their actions?

What concept means our behavior is influenced by ourselves, our surroundings, and our past experiences?

Who was the Swiss psychologist who theorized that children progress through four stages of cognitive development?

Who was the Russian-Soviet psychologist who created the sociocultural theory of cognitive development?

What is the systematic approach used by researchers to investigate phenomena and test hypotheses in lifespan development?

What is the specific way a researcher uses to collect and analyze data, including descriptive, correlational, and experimental methods?

What are the genetic factors inherited from biological parents that influence various aspects of an individual?

What is a unit of heredity transferred from a parent to offspring, determining some characteristics of the offspring?

What is the complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes?

How many chromosomes do humans have?

What is the process of cell division called?

When does mitosis occur?

When does meiosis occur?

What are reproductive cells such as egg/ova and sperm called?

How many chromosomes do gametes have?

What is a fertilized ovum/egg, resulting from the fusion of two haploid gametes?

What is the difference between a diploid and haploid cell?

What are the genes that overpower recessive genes and are expressed in the phenotype?

What are genes that are only expressed when two copies of the recessive allele are present?

What are the characteristics of chromosomal abnormalities?

What is trisomy and when does it occur?

What is the study of how genes and the environment influence behavior?

What is an organism's genetic makeup or allele combinations called?

What are the observable physical and biochemical characteristics of an organism resulting from genotype and environment interaction?

What are different forms of a gene that can be dominant or recessive?

What does it mean to have two identical alleles for a trait?

What does it mean to have two different alleles for a particular gene?

What are genes that are expressed when present, regardless of homozygous or heterozygous status?

What are genes that are only expressed when two copies of the recessive allele are present?

What occurs when the heterozygous phenotype is intermediate between the two homozygous phenotypes?

What is the difference between identical and fraternal twins?

What does genotype-environment correlation mean?

What is the study of how the environment affects which genes are expressed?

What is the germinal period in prenatal development?

What is the embryonic period in prenatal development?

What is a blastocyst in prenatal development?

What is the fetal period in prenatal development?

What is prenatal brain development?

What are maternal factors that can influence pregnancy outcomes and fetal development?

What are neurons and their primary function?

What are dendrites and their function in the nervous system?

What is synaptogenesis and its role in brain development?

What is myelin and its function in the nervous system?

What is the frontal lobe responsible for in the brain?

What is the parietal lobe responsible for in the brain?

What is the temporal lobe responsible for in the brain?

What is the cortex responsible for in the brain?

What is neuroplasticity and its significance in brain function?

What are motor skills and their importance in human development?

What are gross motor skills and their role in physical development?

What are fine motor skills and their significance in development?

In Piaget's theory of cognitive development, what are the three information organization processes?

What is the sensorimotor stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development?

What is temperament and its role in individual differences?

What is the corpus callosum and its function in the brain?

What is the cerebral cortex and its role in brain function?

Who was Lev Vygotsky and what was his contribution to cognitive development theory?

What is sustained attention and its importance in cognitive processes?

What is selective attention and its role in cognitive processes?

What is divided attention and its significance in multitasking?

What is sensory memory and its role in the memory system?

What is short-term memory and its function in the memory system?

What is long-term memory and its role in the memory system?

What is fast-mapping and its significance in language development?

What age range defines the infancy stage?

What age range defines the early childhood stage?

What age range defines the middle and late childhood stage?

What age range defines the adolescence stage?

What age range defines the emerging adulthood stage?

What age range defines the middle adulthood stage?

What age range defines the late adulthood stage?

What is the hippocampus and its role in cognitive functions?

What is the concrete operational stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development?

Who was Charles Spearman and what was his contribution to intelligence theory?

What is the triarchic theory of intelligence by Robert Sternberg?

What is the multiple intelligence theory by Howard Gardner?

What is the average IQ score range?

What is Down syndrome and its genetic cause?

What is an intellectual disability and its characteristics?

What is dyslexia and its primary difficulty?

What is dysgraphia and its primary difficulty?

What is dyscalculia and its primary difficulty?

What is ADHD and its primary characteristics?

What are Kohlberg's stages of moral development and their significance?

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