​While there is an expectation that researchers will conduct their studies ethically, there is no system of checks and verifications that ensures this is the case.

Your personality and your ability to make and carry out plans are all controlled by the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex.

Tosha is playing jacks, and each time she bounces a ball she has to pick up one additional jack. She uses private speech as she counts the number of jacks in her head rather than out loud.

​Barbara is preparing a cup of coffee in her kitchen, when she hears her newborn daughter crying from the other room. The cry is marked by a sudden long burst of noise, followed by a long pause and gasping. Barbara’s daughter is making the ____ cry.

​Cosella is conducting an experiment where she assesses how quickly teenagers can run a 100-meter race after consuming specific amounts of caffeine. She divides her sample up into three groups. Group 1 receives a glass of water with no caffeine added. Group 2 receives a glass of water with an amount of caffeine equivalent to that in one cup of coffee. Group 3 receives a glass of water with an amount of caffeine equivalent to that in two cups of coffee. Each participant is then timed as they run the course. In this study, the independent variable is

​The major risks of a mother contracting the chicken pox during pregnancy include encephalitis, an enlarged spleen, and blood clotting problems in the baby.

​The ecological theory of Urie Bronfenbrenner proposes that there are three interacting levels of environmental context that influence human development.

Recent advances in the synthesis of artificial formula have resulted in experts agreeing that breastfeeding and bottle-feeding a baby are equally beneficially to the child.

​Why is it that an orienting response tends to disappear after repeated exposure to a stimulus?

​What is the primary thrust of the psychosocial theory of development?