Personality
Memory
Sensation
Cognition
Development
100
These are used to protect the conscious ego from unwanted outside sources
defense mechanisms
100
When is memory encoded?
stage 3/4 sleep
100
Minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time
What is the absolute threshold?
100
images, concepts, language, symbols
What are the 4 basic units of thought?
100
Name the 3 innate reflexes
sucking, rooting, grasping
200
This is a personality test where people have to make up a story about a picture they are given. The people project their feelings onto the story they tell.
What is Thematic Apperception Test or TAT
200
What are 3 different types of memory?
Sensory, short term, long term
200
The difference threshold must be proportionally the same for the stimuli to be perceived
What is Weber's law?
200
What are phonemes?
the smallest units of sound
200
These are things that can harm a baby and causes developmental delays
What is teratogen?
300
This is when parents may be mad at their child but they will love them no matter what.
What is unconditional positive regard?
300
We learn better when rehearsal is spread out over time
What is spacing effect?
300
What is sensory adaptation?
When you become accustomed to something (getting used to a bad smell)
300
This allows our beliefs to distort our logic
What is belief bias?
300
According to Lawrence Kohlberg, what are the 3 stages go moral development with a brief explanation?
pre-conventional- "me" centered conventional- follows rules, aware of effect on others post-conventional- abstract reasoning
400
People accept more responsibility for the good they do and blame others more for their failures.
What is self serving bias?
400
A curve showing how information is lost overtime
What is the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve?
400
This is when your eyes and brain work together to combine sensation
What is parallel processing?
400
What is the difference between algorithms and heuristics?
algorithms- a methodical approach, trying all the options heuristics- looking for patterns, using what you already know
400
What is the zone of proximal development?
The difference between what a learner can do teaching itself vs with a teacher
500
openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
What is the big five?
500
What is the difference between retrograde and anterograde?
Retrograde- forget an event that occurs before a stimulus anterograde- forgetting an event after a stimulus
500
Bob's knee has been hurting for a long time. The pain got so bad that he eventually did not notice it anymore.
What is gate control theory?
500
What are the stages of learning a language?
babbling, one word stage, two word stage/telegraphic speech, sentences
500
This is the correlation between performance and arousal
What is the Yerkes Dodson law?
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