Acquiring, through experience, new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.
What is learning?
100
The type of conditioning discussing the use of reinforcement.
What is operant conditioning?
100
The caring, nonjudgmental attitude referred to by Carl Rogers
What is unconditional positive regard?
100
Two areas of the brain associated with language.
What are Broca and Wernicke's area?
100
The perspective in psychology most likely to focus on how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures.
What is the sociocultural perspective?
200
A lack of conscious memories of your first three years of life.
What is infantile amnesia?
200
The type of memory tested by short answer questions.
What is recall memory?
200
A mood disorder characterized by feelings of extreme sadness and hopelessness.
What is Major Depression?
200
Difficulty with speech production due to damage to this area of the brain.
What is Broca's area?
200
A process by which we appraise and respond to threatening or challenging events.
What is stress?
300
Positive and negative environmental stimuli that motivate behavior.
What are incentives?
300
The type of memory tested by multiple choice questions.
What is recognition memory?
300
This is to trait theory, as Freud is to psychoanalytic theory.
What is Allport?
300
Damage to this area of the brain resulting in inability to understand words.
What is Wernicke's area?
300
A technique used to treatment phobias.
What is systematic desensitization?
400
An unjustifiable and usually negative attitude toward a group and its members.
What is prejudice?
400
Giving real life examples in class in order to help students remember the information better.
What is meaningful encoding?
400
The perspective of the treatment for bed wetting that involves classically conditioning the child to associate a full bladder with waking up.
What is behavior therapy?
400
The stage of Kohlberg's theory on moral development that a 13 year old child expressing his own, highly idealistic values would be in.
What is the postconventional stage?
400
Persistent avoidance of social situations due to an intense fear of being negatively evaluated by others.
What is social anxiety disorder?
500
The three psychological needs
What are autonomy, competence and relatedness?
500
The term for when we think about Islamic terrorists automatically upon hearing about terrorism because we hear about it so often on the news.
What is availability heuristic?
500
The phenomenon describing the reduction in anxiety every time Janet checks that her oven is off that leads to her checking that her oven is off 15 times a day.
What is reinforcement?
500
The stage of Erikson's theory on psychosocial development that a 13 year old expressing his own value system would be in.
What is the Identity stage?
500
The three basic steps to this are receiving, transforming, and delivering information.