Test 1
This term refers to the debate between our biology and environment's influence on development.
What is Nature vs. Nurture?
Broken into four types (secure, ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized), these were first measured by the Strange Situation experiment.
What are Attachment Styles?
This is the 5th and most recently discovered taste sensation; the other four include sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.
What is Umami?
This term is used to refer to learning that persists over time.
What is Memory?
This three-step model argues that to remember any event we must: encode, store, and retrieve the information.
What is the Information-Processing Model?
This term refers to drugs that increase neural activity and impulses and includes drugs such as nicotine and caffeine.
What are Stimulants?
This term refers to an individuals ability to experience adversity/trauma and continue to life a healthy life.
What is resiliency?
This term refers to the three step process that all senses do: receive, transform, and deliver.
What is Transduction?
This term refers to memories that are "seared" into the brain due to the triggering of stress hormones.
What are Flashbulb Memories?
In this stage of Piaget's Theory, children are too young to perform mental tasks, but are able to represent things with words and images. Pretend Play and the Conversion Task are common in this stage.
What is the Preoperational Stage?
This term refers to the part of our Nervous System that increases mobility/responses in the face of stress and danger.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
This term refers to the many harmful things that fetuses can be exposed to in the womb, such as drugs and viruses.
What are teratogens?
This theory proses that the spinal cord contains a neurological "gate" which opens to allow individuals to feel pain.
What is the Gate-Control Theory?
This type of processing allows individuals to encode information such as space, time, and frequency without much effort.
What is Automatic Processing?
This three-step model includes the following:
1) Recording information through sensory memories
2) Processing information into short-term memory
3) Moving information into long-term memory for later retrieval.
What is the Memory-forming Process Model?
Psychology's 1st laboratory was founded by whom?
Who is Wundt?
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
This theory proposes that the retina contains three different color receptors (red, green, and blue).
What is the Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic (three-color) Theory?
This idea as introduced by Ebbinghaus in 1885 and demonstrates that the course of forgetting is initially rapid, then levels of with time.
What is the Forgetting Curve?
This issue of Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development happens between the ages of teen years to early 20s and will either leave individuals confidence in themselves or with confusion about who they are.
What is the Identity vs. Role Confusion issue?
What is Statistical Significance?
This term refers to memories before the age of 3 not being stored in the brain as conscious memories.
What is infantile amnesia?
This is the term for the process of changing the curvature and thickness of the lens in the eye.
What is Accommodation?
This term refers to the process of recalling a memory and replacing that memory with a slightly modified version.
What is Reconsolidation?
This social-developmental theory argues that by age 7, children increasingly think in words to solve problems due to internalizing their culture's language and relying on inner speech.
What is Lev Vygotsky's "The Social Child"?