Vocabulary
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people is a(n)
What is Concept
Know for his work on child development
A region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere, usually the left, of the brain with functions linked to speech production
The rules for combining words into a sensible sentence in a language
What is Syntax
Imaginative, independent, like variety
What is Openness
An inability to form new memories due to injury or illness.
What is Anterograde Amnesia
President of the American Psychological Association
Who is Albert Bandura
Responsible for initiating and coordinating motor movements
What is Frontal Lobe
smallest unit that caries meaning (syllable)
What is Morpheme
Organized, careful, disciplined
What is Conscientiousness
Refers to all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering,and communicating
Best known for his influence on linguistics
Who is Noam Chomsky
The region of the brain that is important for language development
What is Wernicke's Area
Rules in a language that enable us to communicate
Grammar
Sociable, fun-loving, affectionate
Extraversion
We judge the likelihood of things based on how readily they come to mind, which may lead us to fear the wrong things
What is Availability Heuristic
Trained rats to find their way out of a maze, then surgically removed pieces of their brain’s cortex and retested their memory
Who is Karl Lashley
The part of the brain that drives the so-called “fight or flight” response
What is Amygdala
Set of rules by which we derive meaning (adding –ed makes something past tense)
What is Semantics
soft hearted, trusting, helpful
What is Agreeableness
A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related mental abilities
What is Factor Analysis
Proposed that forgetting may be due to repression
A temporal-lobe neural center located in the limbic system
Infants babble 1st stage of speech
What is Babbling Stage
Calm, secure, stable
Neuroticism