States of Consciousness
Learning
Cognition
Motivation and Emotion
Developmental Psychology
100
Also known as the biological clock, this is the name for your body's twenty-four hour cycle.
What is the circadian rhythm
100
Conditioned response and stimulus are terms from this type of conditioning.
What is classical conditioning?
100
The complete cycle for memory begins with encoding, continues with storage, and finishes with this, how to get it out.
What is retrieval?
100
We are motivated to maintain this, a balanced or constant internal state.
What is homeostasis?
100
With some variance between cultures, the ages for marriage, parenthood, retirement and other life events are all timed according to this.
What is the social clock ?
200
During this type of sleep, you are likely to have vivid dreams.
What is REM?
200
This form of motivation comes from within.
What is intrinsic motivation?
200
In order to deepen our memory, we must consciously replay the information. Psychologists call it this. Are we in a play?
What is rehearsal?
200
It is believed that when you experience this, you have successfully released your aggressive energy. Studies show that it's just not true.
What is catharsis?
200
Erikson states that the main issue adolescents face is their search for this.
What is identity?
300
This is the term for when you have trouble falling and/or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
300
In operant conditioning, behavioral changes come from a reinforcement schedule. This type of schedule reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses.
What is fixed-ratio schedule?
300
Heuristics are used to make quick judgments. Availability heuristics are based on what is available in memory, while this form of heuristics are based on how things match to what's in your memory.
What is representativeness heuristics?
300
This phenomenon explains why people who feel good will do good.
What is the feel-good, do-good phenomenon
300
The idea that we develop morally from preconventional to conventional to postconventional comes from this developmental psychologist.
Who is Kohlberg?
400
Manifest content is the story line of the dream, this is the underlying meaning of the dream.
What is latent content?
400
When a response is no longer reinforced, the behavior can be unlearned. Like a dormant volcano, psychologists call it this.
What is extinction?
400
At this stage, which begins around the age of 4 months, children utter spontaneous sounds unrelated to household language.
What is the babbling stage?
400
For most of his life, Bill struggled on his $50,000 a year salary. To his good fortune, winning the lottery gives him an annual income of $250,000 a year; however, he still finds it difficult to make ends meet. He is most likely experiencing this phenomenon.
What is adaptation-level phenomenon?
400
The expected behaviors for men and women are known as this role.
What is gender role?
500
Caffeine and nicotine are this type of drug, while alcohol is this type of drug.
What are stimulants and depressants?
500
When you strengthen behavior in operant conditioning, you are applying this. It could be positive or negative!
What is a reinforcer?
500
If you are able to use a coin as a screwdriver, you have overcome this.
What is functional fixedness?
500
Connor looks at Matt and thinks: I am worse off than Matt. In reality, Connor has all that Matt has, and in some respects even more. When people make this kind of comparison, psychologists say they are experiencing this.
What is relative deprivation?
500
Young children believe that a tall glass containing four ounces of water has more in it than a short glass containing four ounces of water. The principle that the quantity remains the same despite the changes in shape is called this.
What is conservation?
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