Module 46: AP Psychology

Maturation is / are the

• biological growth processes that enable changes in behavior.

• act of becoming an adult.

• end of the human life cycle.

• changes that happen to humans thanks to experience.

• birth moment.

The "back-to-sleep position" (putting babies to sleep on their back to reduce the risk of a smothering crib death) has affected the average age of

• walking.

• crawling.

• talking.

• knowing colors.

• rolling over.

Part of the reason babies are about ready to walk around age one is because of

• development of the motor cortex.

• development of the cerebellum.

• development of the frontal lobe.

• development of the hypothalamus.

• development of the amygdala.

The fact that our earliest memories seldom predate our third birthday is called

• bad memory.

• short-term memory.

• cognitive schema.

• infantile amnesia.

• anterograde amnesia.

When an experiment demonstrates statistical significance, this means:

• the results are not likely to have happened by chance.

• the results probably happened by chance.

• there is a high probability that the IV caused the DV.

• there is a high probability that the DV caused the IV.

• there is a high probability that the control and experimental groups were a set up.