pysch 1
the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
Cognitive Psychology
arouses and expends energy and enables voluntary control of skeletal muscles (fight or flight)
sympathetic nervous system
a neural center located in the limbic system; helps process explicit memories for storage
Hippocampus
Optimal period early in life when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces typical development.
critical period
Type of learning in which a behavior becomes more likely to recur if followed by a reinforcer or less likely to recur if followed by a punisher
operant conditioning
Branchlike parts of a neuron that are specialized to receive information.
Dendrites
neural system (including the hippocampus, amygdala, and hypothalamus) located below the cerebral hemispheres; associated with emotions and drives.
limbic system
the idea that early attachments with parents and other caregivers can shape relationships for a person's whole life
attachment theory
associated with reasoning, planning, parts of speech, movement, emotions, and problem solving
frontal lobe
Type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events
classical conditioning
where it sends information
axon terminal
child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research
Lev Vygotsky
specialization of function in one hemisphere of the cerebral cortex or the other
Lateralization
functions include processing sensory input and coordinating movement output and balance
Cerebellum
the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Psychology
is a neural impulse (information being sent)
action potential
learn something new; take my current schema and incorporate new information, piaget
accommodation
A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other.
Correlation
Scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another
social psychology
Principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences (reward) becomes more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely
law of effect
set of glands that secrete hormones into bloodstream
endocrine system
thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.
Critical Thinking
Level 1: (Preconventional Morality): Self-Interest, obey rules to avoid punishment or gain concrete rewards.
Level 2: (Conventional Morality): Uphold laws and rules to gain social approval or maintain social order.
Level 3: (Postconventional morality): actions reflect belief in basic rights and self-denied ethical principles
Lawerance Kohlberg stages of moral development
the study of continuity and change across the life span
developmental psychology
1. Sensorimotor stage (Tools for thinking and reasoning change with development)
2. pre operational stage (Children can represent things with words and images; too young to perform mental operations (imagining an action and mentally reversing it))
3. concrete operational stage ( Children can gain mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events)
4. formal operational stage (Children can ponder hypothetical propositions and deduce consequences)
Jean Piaget stages of cognitive development