Chapter 5
Pavlov placed food in the mouths of dogs, and they began to salivate. The food acted as a(n)
________.
What is a unconditioned stimulus ?
The BEST place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in ________.
What is the biology classroom ?
This type of thinking could be described as taking different directions in search of a variety of answers to a question?
What is divergent thinking?
Piaget’s term for the knowledge that an object exists even when it is out of sight is ________.
What is object permanence ?
According to Erikson, an emotional and psychological closeness that is based on the ability to trust, share, and care, while still maintaining one’s sense of self, is called ________.
What is intimacy ?
Learning that is not manifested until some later time is called ________.
What is latent learning ?
People with Alzheimer’s disease typically have a memory problem known as ________.
What is anterograde amnesia?
Charles Spearman believed that intelligence is composed of:
What are general intelligence and specific abilities?
Erik Erikson found that each stage in personality development has a particular _______.
What is crisis ?
The drug most abused by pregnant women is ________.
What is alcohol ?
The process by which experience results in a relatively permanent change in what one is capable of doing is called:
What is learning ?
Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called ________.
What is flashbulb memories?
When you took your college entrance exam, students across the country took the same test at the same time with the same instructions. This characteristic reflects which testing concept?
What is standardization?
Toxic substances such as alcohol and nicotine that cross the placenta and may result in birth defects are called ________.
What is tetragons?
According to Kohlberg, children interpret behavior in terms of concrete consequences at the ________ level of moral development.
What is Preconventional ?
For every 5 times that you go to the gym each week, you reward yourself with a treat. This best illustrates which of the following schedules of reinforcement?
What is a fixed ratio?
Early studies of the capacity of short-term memory suggested that most people could remember approximately ________ bits of information.
What is seven ?
A form of intelligence that refers to how effectively people perceive and understand their own feelings and the feelings of others, is ________ intelligence.
What is emotional ?
Researchers have discovered that during specific periods in one's life, certain abilities must develop or they will not develop later. These are known as ________.
What is critical periods?
It’s Thanksgiving and the whole family has gotten together. You start to reminisce about your childhood and get into an argument with your brother. Both of you claim that you were the innocent victim of the other. This is an example of ________.
What is constructive processing ?
Classical is to ________ as operant is to ________.
What is Pavlov;Skinner?
You are surprised by the fact that you cannot remember if Abraham Lincoln’s head faces the left or the right on a penny. This is all the more surprising given the fact that you work with money at your job on nearly a daily basis. What would BEST explain such an inability to recall this information
What encoding failure?
Researchers have found that ________ influenced by culture.
What is a both language and thought?
The correct sequence of the five stages of death and dying postulated by Kübler-Ross is ________.
What is denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance ?
Which of the following is true of the original research that suggested a relationship between the MMR vaccine and the development of autism?
a) It was based on falsified data.
b) It was conducted in a cooperative study in France, Iceland, and the Netherlands.
c) It was based on data collected from a very large sample of children.
d) It has been successfully replicated repeatedly, providing evidence for its validity.