The body’s tendency to maintain a steady internal state is known as Homeostasis.  

The particular level of weight that the body strives to maintain is called the weight set point.  

The Zygote is the new cell formed by the union of an egg and sperm.  

According to Vygotsky the gap between when children already are able to accomplish on their own and what they are not quite ready to do by themselves is known as the zone of proximal development.  

Insight is a sudden awareness of the relationships among various elements that had previously appeared to be unrelated.  

A test that does not discriminate against the members of any minority group is know as a culture fair IQ test.  

Cognitive Psychology is the branch of Psychology that focuses on the study of higher mental processes, including thinking and decision making.  

Intellectual disability is characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and practical skills.  

Functional fixedness is the tendency to think of an object only in terms of the way it is most frequently or typically used.  

The belief that emotional experience is a reaction to bodily events occurring as a result of an external situation is known as the Canon-Bard Theory of Emotion.