Learning
A type of learning that promotes behavior by reward or punishment.
What is operant conditioning?
The capacity to engage in a warm and loving relationship.
What is intimacy?
understanding a person from their frame of reference rather than one’s own, vicariously experiencing another’s feelings, perceptions, and thoughts
What is empathy?
Belief that events of life are controlled by narrative constructs
What is personal fable?
Erikson's stage, in which the person develops in part from the cognitive ability to establish relationships between ages 6 to 12.
What is Erikson’s Industry vs Inferiority?
A type of learning in which people associate a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus and an unconditioned response, which later becomes a conditioned stimulus/response.
What is classical conditioning?
The tendency of people to choose mates with similar characteristics.
What is assortative mating theory/homogamy?
The ability of an individual to return itself to a calm state from a previous state of arousal.
What is emotional regulation?
Period of maturation characterized by the emerging
development of reproductive maturity
What is puberty?
Ability to mentally reverse a sequence of events or restore something to its original state.
What is mental reversibility?
A theory proposed that people learn behaviors by observing and imitating others.
What is Bandura’s Social-Learning Theory?
The tendency to view relationship-building as a method of removing loneliness.
What is affiliative need?
Child develops internalized valence towards initiative-taking behaviors dependent upon social consequences between ages 3 to 6.
What is Initiative vs guilt phase?
The initiation of the release of androgens to further
sexual maturation of the body
What is adrenarche?
A cognitive process that involves shifting away from egocentric thinking and considering multiple aspects of a situation.
What is decentration?
A experiment where Watson paired the white rat with a loud bang repeatedly to create an association between the two unrelated stimuli, and little Albert began fearing the white rat without the noise.
What is Watson’s Little Albert Experiment?
developed a personality assessment that allowed individuals to explore their interests before making a decision
Who is John Holland?
Concordance rates have allowed us to determine that some elements of temperament/personality are genetic.
What is heredity?
The ability to deploy and direct attentional effort towards relevant event information while
ignoring irrelevant information.
What is selective attention?
The process by which people develop a sense of right and wrong, and how they choose between them as they grow and mature.
What is Morality Development?
The tendency for an organism to respond to stimuli that are similar to the original conditioned stimulus.
What is generalization?
proposed that individuals go through different stages as they discover/explore/implement their skills towards a career
Who is Donald Super?
Humans have an innate need to form close emotional bonds with primary caregivers, particularly in early childhood, and the quality of this bond significantly impacts a person's emotional and social development throughout life.
What is John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory?
The process of bone formation stops in early adulthood.
What is ossification?
Erikson proposed this stage will occur as a result of identity crisis between ages 12 and 18.
What is identity vs role confusion?