Conditioning and Learning
Reinforcement Schedules
Brain Development
Piaget and Cognitive Development
Parenting and Attachment
100
Changes in behavior that occur through experience refers to this concept
Learning
100
A coffee shop punch card gives you a free drink after buying 10 coffees.
Fixed ratio
100
The fatty insulation that speeds up neural signals.
Myelin sheath
100
The developmental psychologist who proposed stages of cognitive development.
Piaget
100
A parenting style characterized by warmth and clear expectations.
Authoritative
200
When a person develops fear of dogs after being bitten as a child.
Classical conditioning
200
A teacher checks homework randomly throughout the week and rewards students when it is completed.
Variable interval
200
The brain area that continues developing into late adolescence and supports decision making.
Frontal lobe
200
The stage when children cannot understand that quantity remains the same when shape changes.
Preoperational
200
A parenting style with few rules, little supervision, and emotional distance.
Neglected
300
When behavior decreases because reinforcement is no longer given
Extinction
300
You receive a paycheck every two weeks regardless of how many tasks you complete
Fixed interval
300
The process in which unused neural connections are eliminated.
Synaptic pruning
300
The stage where children develop the ability to reverse operations and understand conservation.
Concrete operational
300
This parenting style overindulges the child to avoid conflict
Permissive
400
The extension of a learned response to similar stimuli
Stimulus generalization
400
A slot machine pays out after an unpredictable number of plays
Variable ratio
400
Problems with this neural developmental process have been linked to disorders such as autism and schizophrenia
Neural pruning
400
The stage where abstract reasoning and hypothesis testing develop.
Formal operational
400
The researcher who developed the Strange Situation attachment test.
Mary Ainsworth
500
When a conditioned response reappears after it has been extinguished
Spontaneous recovery
500
A video game rewards players with rare items after an unpredictable number of enemy defeats. Players continue playing for hours because they never know when the next reward will occur.
Variable ratio
500
Stress during pregnancy can lead to emotional, behavioral, and cognitive problems in children. These early influences are examples of ______ influences on development.
Prenatal influences
500
This test was designed to assess this area:
Egocentrism
500
A child whose caregiver is inconsistent may cling to the caregiver but also resist comfort when they return. This attachment pattern is
Anxious/ambivalent