Developmental Psychology
This field is concerned with how we develop over time and what aspects affect our development
What is Developmental Psychology?
____ conditioning focuses on Stimulus and Response while ___ conditioning focuses on response and consequence
What are classical conditioning and operant conditioning?
The goal of ____ is to decrease undesired behavior
What is punishment?
Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval are ____
What are the three stages of memory?
The activation of associations unconsciously is ____
What is priming?
This experiment contradicted the idea that attachment derives from an association with nourishment
Why did Harlow conduct experiments with Monkeys?
___ produces an unconditioned response
Unconditioned stimulus or Unconditioned stimulus paired with neutral stimulus
Slot machines are an example for ____ ratio
Variable ratio
Auditory, Visual, and Semantic are known as
The three types of memory codes
In the movie 50 first dates, Lucy suffered from a major accident. She was unable to remember any thing new. What kind of amnesia does Lucy suffer from?
Anterograde Amnesia
____ is the basic unit of knowledge
What are schemas?
Reinforcers and punishers can be explained by what type of conditioning?
What is operant conditioning?
The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior is known as ____
Modeling
Information pass from the sensory memory to the ____ and to the _____, according to the model proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin
What are short-term and long-term memory?
The process in which previously stored memories are altered during retrieval. What is this process known as?
What is reconsolidation?
What is Familiarity?
_____ causes a diminished response, when the CS is no longer paired with US, while _____ is known as the reappearance of the response
What are Extinction and Spontaneous recovery?
Bandura used this experiment to demonstrate children imitate aggressive behavior of adults
What is the Bobo Doll Experiment?
This system has a memory span of 12-30 seconds.
What is short-term memory or working memory?
The experiment where scuba divers remembered information when the learning and recall information matched is known as
Context-dependent memory
These are four stages of Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development (Mention stages with their characteristics)
2. Preoperational - Symbols and animism, egocentrism
3. Concrete operational - Math, concrete objects
4. Formal operation - abstract ideas and logic
Removal of an aversive stimulus, strengthens a response. This type of reinforcement is known as
What is negative reinforcement?
These are the three strategies of effective learning. Explain the three
What are Retrieval Practice, Spacing, Dual-coding?
EXTRA CREDIT #3
These are the three types of long-term memories? Give examples for each.
What are episodic memory, semantic memory, and procedural memory?
______is incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event. Give an example.
Misinformation effect
Elizabeth Loftus and her research team asked people to watch a video of a minor car accident. After, one group of participants were asked “How fast were cars going when they hit each other” and the other group was asked “How fast wee the cars going when the cars smashed into each other”. People who were asked “How fast were the cars going when the cars smashed into each other” reported higher speed and remembered broken glass in the scene although there was none in the actual video.