Language
The SMALLEST units of sound that are recognizable as speech, rather than as random noise, are called:
What are phonemes?
When Jasminda first moved into her apartment, the buzzing noise coming from her refrigerator disturbed her greatly. Now, after 3 months, Jasminda doesn't notice the sound because of:
What is habituation?
Priming is an example of _____ memory.
What is implicit memory?
The theories of Lev Vygotsky emphasized the role played by _____ in cognitive development.
What is social interaction?
Ten-year-old Marla loves to read, whether she is rewarded for it or not. This is an example of this type of motivation.
What is intrinsic motivation?
Semantics refers to the _____ of a sentence.
What is the meaning?
Rachel is training her dog, Duke, to bark every time someone knocks on the door. She already knows that seeing the family cat will make Duke bark; so she decides to knock on the door and then open the door to reveal the cat in an effort to condition Duke to bark. What is serving as the unconditioned stimulus?
What is the cat?
Working memory can hold how many items?
What is 7 +/-2 meaningful units?
Motor development during infancy tends to follow two main guidelines: the _____ rule, whereby motor skills develop from the head to the feet, and the _____ rule, whereby babies learn to control body parts closest to their trunk before moving to the periphery (e.g., hands and feet).
What are the cephalocaudal and proximodistal rules (respectively)?
An internal state generated by departures from physiological optimality is called this.
What is a drive?
A sentence has _____ based on meaning and _____ based on the wording of the sentence.
What are deep and surface structure (respectively)?
In eyeblink conditioning, a tone is sounded immediately before air is puffed into a participant's eye. After a number of tone-air puff pairings, which factor is the conditioned response?
What is blinking when the tone sounds?
Chad recalls that Jack the Ripper was a serial killer who terrorized London in 1888, but he has no idea if he originally learned this information from a book, a television show, a movie, or a story from another person. Chad is experiencing a failure of this type of memory.
What is source memory?
_____ is the failure to understand that the world appears different to different people.
What is Egocentrism?
According to the this theory of emotion, a key factor in determining which emotion we feel is our cognitive interpretation of the situation.
What is the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory?
Babies are born with the ability to recognize and distinguish the phonemes of just their language OR the phonemes in any language?
What are the phonemes in any language?
The removal of a stimulus that decreases the likelihood of a behavior is called:
What is negative punishment?
When recalling the morning of September 11, 2001, Rob is able to describe what he was doing and saying at the moment the principal of his middle school opened the classroom door to advise the class to turn on the television. Rob's ability to describe the day's events is an example of:
What is a flashbulb memory?
In the Strange Situation, 1-year-old Mei Ling mildly protests her mother's departure, seeks interaction with her mother when the two are reunited, and is readily comforted by her mother. Mei Ling is showing a(n) _____ attachment style.
What is a secure attachment?
Evidence suggests that these are the six universal emotional expressions.
What are happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, surprise, and anger?
Jen was concerned when her 4-year-old son, Anthony, started saying, "I eated dinner." Jen should not worry because Anthony is simply...
What is overgeneralizing grammatical rules?
The school of psychology MOST associated with learning is:
What is behaviorism?
The case of H.M. is a documented case of a patient whose speech skills and intelligence were unaffected by the removal of parts of his temporal lobe but who could not form new long-term memories. H.M. had this disorder.
What is anterograde amnesia?
A child in the preoperational stage of development often has trouble with the concept of:
What is conservation?
The so-called fast pathway leads from the thalamus directly to the amygdala, whereas the so-called slow pathway leads from A to B to C.
What is the thalamus to the cortex to the amygdala?