Sensation and Perception
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
In Pavlov's classical conditioning, the term conditioned is approximately synonymous with this word.
What is learned?
This type of development involves growth and changes in the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness.
What is physical?
The set of processes that are used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time.
What is memory?
An individual's belief in his or her capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific performance attainments.
What is self-efficacy?
The continuation of a visual sensation after the removal of the stimulus.
What is an afterimage (aftereffect)?
The repeated reinforcement of a behavior every time it happens.
What is continuous reinforcement?
Nature refers to this in the nature vs nurture debate.
What are genes and biology?
The type of memories we consciously try to remember, recall, and report.
What is explicit memory?
Our stable characteristics and ways of behaving.
What are traits?
The translation of the sensory stimulus into neuronal activity—involves a variety of physical and chemical mechanisms.
What is (sensory) transduction?
The gradual weakening of a conditioned response resulting in the behavior decreasing or disappearing.
What is extinction?
A one-cell structure that is created when a sperm and egg merge.
What is a zygote?
This kind of memory involves the storage of brief events, such as sights, sounds, and tastes.
What is sensory memory?
An individual's perception of the underlying main causes of events in his/her life.
What is locus of control?
Pitch is to frequency as amplitude is to this.
What is loudness?
The re-emergence of conditioned responding to an extinguished conditioned stimulus (CS) with the passage of time since extinction.
What is spontaneous recovery?
When development proceeds in a stepwise fashion with periods of growth interrupted by periods where growth is not occurring.
What is discontinuous?
Information about events we have personally experienced.
What is episodic memory?
A proportion of difference among people that is attributed to genetics.
What is heritability?
Used in virtual reality, this term refers to the slightly different view of the world that each eye receives and is a distance cue that allows us to perceive the depth of a given visual stimulus.
What is binocular disparity?
Behavior charts are an example of this type of partial reinforcement.
What is a fixed ratio reinforcement schedule?
Freud suggested that people who are dominated by this part of their personality might be narcissistic and impulsive.
What is the id?
Remembering the state capitols.
What is semantic memory?
Refers to the feeling that one lacks worth and doesn’t measure up to the standards of others or of society.
What is the inferiority complex?