Brain and Biology
This part of the brain controls balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
According to Piaget, this stage involves object permanence.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
This type of learning involves associating two stimuli.
What is classical conditioning?
This type of memory holds information briefly for processing.
What is short-term (working) memory?
This personality test uses inkblots.
What is the Rorschach test?
This lobe processes visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
This parenting style is high in warmth and high in control.
What is authoritative parenting?
This psychologist is known for operant conditioning.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This brain structure is crucial for forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This disorder involves extreme mood swings between highs and lows.
What is bipolar disorder?
This neurotransmitter is linked to pleasure and reward.
What is dopamine
This term refers to the inability to see things from another’s perspective.
What is egocentrism?
This schedule reinforces behavior after an unpredictable number of responses.
What is a variable ratio schedule?
This is the tendency to remember the first and last items in a list best.
What is the serial position effect?
Freud’s pleasure principle is associated with this part of personality.
What is the id?
This structure regulates hunger, thirst, and body temperature.
What is the hypothalamus?
According to Erikson, teenagers face this psychosocial conflict.
What is identity vs. role confusion?
Learning by observing others is called this.
What is observational learning?
This memory error involves mixing up the source of information.
What is source amnesia (misattribution)?
This disorder involves persistent, unwanted thoughts and repetitive behaviors.
What is OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder)?
This split-brain structure connects the left and right hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
This experiment showed attachment in baby monkeys using cloth and wire mothers.
What is Harlow’s monkey experiment?
This occurs when a conditioned response decreases over time.
What is extinction?
This type of processing involves encoding meaning.
What is semantic encoding?
This perspective focuses on free will and self-actualization.
What is the humanistic perspective?