Sensation & Perception
A good example explained by the trichromatic theory.
What is color blindness?
Allows us to integrate past, present, and future behaviors.
What is consciousness?
Improved by factors like timing, frequency and consistency
The mental processes that enable us to acquire, retain, and retrieve information.
What is memory?
Periods during which a child is maximally sensitive to environmental influences.
What are critical periods?
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What is similarity?
Dreaming is taking place.
What is REM sleep?
Increases the likelihood of a behavior being repeated
What is positive reinforcement?
What are the stages of memory?
What is the Embryonic period?
The term means "unified, whole, or shape.
What is Gestalt?
Most common type of sleep disorder
What are nightmares?
Conditioning of voluntary behaviors
What is operant conditioning?
Knowledge of facts, concepts, and ideas
What is semantic memory?
Parents who are demanding but unresponsive to children's needs
Cornea, pupil, lens, retina
What is the path taken by light signals through the eye?
Characterized by undesirable physical arousal and total amnesia for events upon wakening.
Believed that observable behaviors are the best way to study people and animals.
Who are B.F. Skinner and/or John Watson
Involves a conscious manipulation of temporarily stored information
What is working memory?
Preoperational children often lack the ability to consider events from another person's point of view.
What is egocentrism?
Explanation for after images
What is opponent-process theory?
Correct sequence of sleep stages during the first 70 minutes of sleep
What is stage 1 NREM, stage 2 NREM, and stage 3 NREM?
This study showed how children imitate behaviors when others are punished or rewarded
"Phonological loop," "visuospatial sketchpad," and "central executive" are a part of this model.
What is Alan Baddeley's model of working memory?
Resolved in either a psychologically positive or negative way.
What are Erik Erikson's conflicts of psychosocial stages?