Learning
Memory
Thinking, Intelligence, & Language
Human Development
Motivation & Emotion
200

This psychologist discovered operant conditioning.

B.F. Skinner

200

This type of memory has a limited capacity for about 30 seconds.

Short-Term Memory

200

Step-by-step strategies that guarantee a solution.

Algorithms

200

Development is driven by a series of eight social crises. Success or failure in one stage impacts the ability to handle the next.

Erikson's Psychological Stages

200

This is a deprivation that energizes your drive.

Need
400

This increases the likelihood of a behavior. 

Reinforcement

400

This memory is affected by prior experience without conscious recollection.

Implicit Memory

400

The ability to perceive, understand, and manage emotions.

Emotional Intelligence

400

This psychological stage is when you start to wonder who you are and what you can be.

Stage 5

400

This theory suggests there are three basic needs required for psychological growth.

Self-Determination Theory

600

A type of operant conditioning reinforcement schedule where a reward is delivered only after a set, specific number of responses.

Fixed-Ration Schedule

600

Recall and recognition are two forms of this:

Retrieval Cues

600

Making a judgment based on the most recent or loudest memory.

The Availability Heuristic

600

The key milestone of these years is object permanence (understanding that things exist even when out of sight).

Sensorimotor

600

This is the "on" switch for hunger.

Lateral Hypothalamus (LH)

800

Attention, retention, motor reproduction, and reinforcement/motivation are the four processes for observational learning.

Observational Learning

800

This occurs when the information never enters Long Term Memory.

Encoding Failure

800

This form of language involves presenting the same information in a more pleasing way.

Linguistic Framing

800

A key milestone of these years is conservation (understanding that quantity doesn't change if the shape changes)

Concrete Operational (7-11 years)

800

The concept that facial expressions can influence emotions as well as reflect them.

Facial Feedback Hypothesis

1000

Thorndike's ____________ theorizes that behaviors followed by positive outcomes are strengthened and behaviors followed by negative outcomes are weakened.

Thorndike's Law of Effect

1000

When you can't remember the past, you might have this kind of amnesia.

Retrograde

1000

Using vague words like "maybe," "possibly," or "usually" to avoid being pinned down to a fact.

Semantic Ambiguity

1000

The close emotional bond between an infant and its caregiver.

Infant Attachment

1000

This theory states that emotion is determined by physiological arousal and cognitive labeling.

Two-Factor Theory

M
e
n
u