AP Psych Unit 6 Vocab Quiz

The fertilized egg that enters the 2 week stage of rapid cell division

• embryo

• fetus

• sperm

• zygote

Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation

• maturation

• habituation

• accommodation

• assimilation

The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.

• sensorimotor stage

• conservation

• object permanence

• egocentrism

The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of the objects.

• conservation

• object permanence

• concrete operational stage

• egocentrism

People's ideas about their own and other's mental states- about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and he behaviors that these might predict.

• conservation

• object permanence

• egocentrism

• theory of mind

Piaget's theory -the stage of cognitive development during which children gain the mental operations that enable them t think logically about actual events.

• concrete operational stage

• formal operational stage

• preoperational stage

• egocentrism

The fear of unknown people that infants commonly display beginning by about 8 months of age.

• theory of mind

• insecure attachment

• stranger anxiety

• imprinting

Our sense of being male or female

• gender role

• gender identity

• sexual orientation

• social learning theory

The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished.

• Pavlov's Classical Conditioning

• Skinner's theory

• modelling

• social learning theory

The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement.

• social learning theory

• social clock

• puberty

• Post Conventional Stage