Biological Bases of Behavior
Sensation and Perception
Developmental Psychology
Social Psychology
Learning/Cognition
100
Serves as insulation for the electrical impulses carried down the axon
What is the myelin sheath?
100
The minimum amount of distance between two stimuli that can be detected.
What is the just noticeable difference?
100
Piaget's first stage of cognitive development that occurs during first two years of life and is marked by the development of object permanence.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
100
Exaggeration of our initial attitudes when with a group whose attitude is similar or more extreme
What is group polarization?
100
When a neutral stimulus paired with a previously meaningful stimulus takes on some meaning itself.
What is classical conditioning?
200
Receive input from other neurons through receptors on their surface
What are dendrites?
200

The only sense that does NOT route through the thalamus.

What is smell (olfaction)?

200
Trust vs. Mistrust
What is Erik Erikson's first stage of psychosocial development?
200
When someone sees the cause of actions as internal (or dispositional) when the outcomes are positive, but external (or situational) when the outcome is negative.
What is the self-serving bias?
200
The initially neutral stimuli in classical conditioning.
What is the CS (conditioned stimulus)
300
The primary gland of the endocrine system. sometimes called the "master gland."
What is the pituitary gland?
300
Is covered with receptor cells known as rods and cones
What is the retina?
300

Vygotsky's theory, sometimes called the ZPD.

What is Zone of Proximal Development?

300
When the group is driven to reach a unanimous decision and fail to carefully consider the repercussions or implications of their decisions.
What is groupthink?
300
When an action is associated with a reward.
What is operant conditiong?
400
The lobe that handles auditory input and is critical for processing speech
What is the temporal lobe?
400
The field of psychology that made significant contributions to the understanding of sensation and perception. Many of their principles are referred to as the law of Pragnanz, seeing objects in their simplest form.
What is Gestalt?
400
The understanding that a change in form does not always produce a change in mass. According to Piaget, this occurs during the concrete operational stage.
What is conservation?
400
Occurs when people overestimate the influence of personal qualities relative to situational factors when trying to explain the behavior of others
What is the fundamental attribution error?
400
Memories of specific events
What is episodic memory?
500
This lobe is the home of the somatosensory cortex, and receives information about temperature, pressure, texture, and pain.
What is the parietal lobe?
500
A progression from the whole to the individual elements.
What is top-down processing?
500
Societal rules are important, but an internal set of values develop that may conflict with societal rules.
What is Kohlberg's postconventioanl stage of morality?
500
When you get people to agree to a small request they will be more likely to agree to follow up request that is larger.
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
500

An example would be Mr. S's inability to remember previous students' names as he learns new students' names.

What is retroactive interference?

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