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UWEC Psych 230 exam 2Just Right - correct answer ✔✔The tendency of children to insist on having things done in a particular
way. This can include clothes, food, bedtime routines, and so on.
Injury control/harm reduction - correct answer ✔✔Practices that are aimed at anticipating, controlling,
and preventing dangerous activities; these practices reflect the beliefs that accidents are not random
and that injuries can be made less harmful if proper controls are in place.
Primary prevention - correct answer ✔✔Actions that change overall background conditions to prevent
some unwanted event or circumstance, such as injury, disease, or abuse.
Secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔Actions that avert harm in a high-risk situation, such as
stopping a car before it hits a pedestrian or installing traffic lights at dangerous intersection.
Tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔Actions, such as immediate and effective medical treatment,
that are taken after an adverse event occurs and that are aimed at reducing the harm or preventing
disability.
Prefrontal cortex - correct answer ✔✔The are of the cortex at the front of the brain that specializes in
anticipation, planning, and impulse control.
Myelination - correct answer ✔✔The process by which axons become coated with myelin, a fatty
substance that speeds the transmission of nerve impulses from neuron to neuron.
Perseveration - correct answer ✔✔The tendency to persevere in, or stick to, one thought or action for a
long time.
Corpus Callosum - correct answer ✔✔A long, thick band of nerve fibers that connects the left and right
hemispheres of the brain and allows communication between them.
, Lateralization - correct answer ✔✔Literally, "sidedness", referring to the specialization in certain
functions by each side of the brain, with one side dominant for each activity. The left side of the brain
controls the right side of the body and vice versa.
Limbic system - correct answer ✔✔The major brain region crucial to the development of emotional
expression and regulation; its three main areas are, the amygdala, the hippocampus, and the
hypothalamus, although recent research has found that many other areas of the brain are involved with
emotions.
Amygdala - correct answer ✔✔A tiny brain structure that registers emotions, particularly fear and
anxiety.
Hippocampus - correct answer ✔✔A brain structure that is central processor of memory, especially
memory of locations.
Hypothalamus - correct answer ✔✔A brain area that responds to the amygdala and the hippocampus to
produce hormones that activates other parts of the bran and body.
Preoperational intelligence - correct answer ✔✔Piaget's term for cognitive development between the
ages of about 2 and 6; it includes language and imagination, but logical, operational thinking is not yet
possible.
Symbolic thought - correct answer ✔✔The concept that an object or word can stand for something else,
including something pretend or something not seen. Once symbolic thought is possible, language
becomes much more useful.
Animism - correct answer ✔✔The belief that natural objects and phenomena are alive.
Centration - correct answer ✔✔A characteristic of preoperational thought whereby a young child
focuses on one idea, excluding all others.
Egocentrism - correct answer ✔✔Piaget's term for young children's tendency to think about the world
entirely from their own personal perspective.
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