School of psych. thought that emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people.
What is humanism?
100
In operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it follows
What is a reinforcer?
100
Name of experimental variable that measures the results and name of variable that is the manipulated factor whose effect is being studied.
What is the dependent and independent variable.
100
Recalling first and last names or topics in a list, and forgetting the middle items.
What is the serial position effect?
100
As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner.
What is habituation?
200
Early "school" of psych. thought used by William James and his one student, Mary Calkins.
What is functionalism?
200
John is paid $400 every week for his mechanic job, no matter how many cars he fixes and is therefore on a ___________ and ___________schedule of reinforcement.
What is a fixed ratio and fixed interval schedule?
200
An explanation that uses an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events.
What is a theory?
200
The ability to produce ideas that are both novel and valuable.
What is creativity?
200
Understanding things still exist when they are out of sight- a concept in the sensorimotor stage by this Psychologist.
What is object permanence by Jean Piaget?
300
The school of psych. thought that studies mental activity linked with brain activity.
What is cognitive neuroscience?
300
The neutral stimulus, unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus and conditioned response in Pavlov's dog experiment.
What is the tone, food in mouth, tone and salivation.
300
A simple thinking stategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently, speedier but not as accurate as an ____________ .
What is a heuristic and an algorithm.
300
3 types of encoding verbal information
What is visual, acoustic, and semantic?
300
The principle that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape.
What is conservation?
400
Effect on people when they believe a treatment will work because their care provider says so.
What is the placebo effect.
400
Punishment or negative reinforcement?-"An event that decreases the behavior that it follows."
What is punishment? (Neg. reinf-stimulus, when removed after a response, strengthens the response.)
400
When a distribution of scores is skewed, the best representation of central tendency.
What is the median.
400
Her work with memory and emotion has shown false memories are easily implanted and shed doubt on repression and explain alien abduction stories.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
400
These provide a biological neuroscientific confirmation of the importance and relative ease of children imitating, empathizing, and learning by observation.
What are mirror neurons?
500
A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.
What is standard deviation?
500
The reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response.
What is spontaneous recovery?
500
___________correlations are also known as inverse correlations.
What is negative correlation.
500
Typical cognitive obstacles to problem solving (at least 2)
What is confirmation bias, fixation, mental set, functional fixedness?
500
Issue or conflict that Erikson says adolescents go through.