This bias describes the tendency to search for and use information that supports our own ideas.
What is the confirmation bias?
100
This developmental psychologist used stage theory to explain the cognitive development of children.
Who is Piaget?
100
This theory explains the mental discomfort caused by conflicting or inconsistent attitudes and behaviors.
What is cognitive dissonance?
100
The primary symptoms of this mood disorder include bouts of both depression and mania (or hypomania).
What is bipolar disorder?
200
This control process regulates the flow of information from the long-term store to the short-term store.
What is retrieval?
200
This term refers to using a well-established habit of perception or thought and failing to look at a problem from a fresh perspective.
What is a mental set?
200
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder do no engage in this key developmental process.
What is pretend play?
200
This bias explains why some people are perceived as honest and helpless while others are perceived as mature and competent.
What is the baby-face bias?
200
This factor of the Big Five Personality Traits is characterized by emotional distress and anxiousness on the high end and emotional stability on the low end.
What is neuroticism?
300
This type of long-term memory is characterized by the ability to verbally communicate facts and events that happened in the past, and it includes episodic and semantic memory.
What is explicit memory?
300
This subset of Spearman's g peaks late in life and is derived directly from previous experience.
What is crystallized intelligence?
300
This parenting style is characterized by a high degree of both warmth and control and is well correlated with the development of positive qualities in the children.
What is authoritative?
300
Prolonged exertion of self-control can lead to this phenomenon.
What is ego depletion?
300
As per Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs, this set of needs focuses on competence and respect from others and the self.
What are esteem needs?
400
This type of amnesia is a result of temporal-lobe damage and causes the patient to lose the capacity to form new long-term memories after the injury.
What is anterograde amnesia?
400
This type of inductive reasoning refers to similarity in behavior, function, or relationship between two things that are otherwise quite different from each other.
What is an analogy?
400
When displaying this behavior, a distressed child will seek comfort for themselves instead of for the other distressed person.
What is egocentric empathy?
400
Unlike the low-ball technique and the foot-in-the-door technique which function on cognitive dissonance, pregiving functions based on this principle.
What is the reciprocity norm?
400
Individuals who make use of this Freudian defense mechanism convert a frightening wish into its safer opposite.
What is a reaction formation?
500
Along with priming and procedural memory, these implict memory effects are both anoetic and nondeclarative.
What are classical conditioning effects?
500
This is the quantitative statistic describing how much of a trait, such as intelligence, is due to genetic factors.
What is the heritability coefficient?
500
Research done on this bush tribe in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana has shown that infant indulgence does not lead to overly dependent or demanding children.
Who are the !Kung?
500
The effects of one's beliefs and expectations on another person are named after this mythological Greek sculptor.
Who is Pygmalion?
500
The newest classes of antidepressant drugs like Prozac function by selectively blocking the reuptake of this neurotransmitter.