Memory
The term for the initial, brief storage of sensory information before it is processed into short-term memory?
What is Sensory memory.
Basic emotion theories, name the primary emotions often considered innate and universal.
What is Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Anger, Disgust, Surprise.
A term for the pattern of change in behavior and mental processes from conception through adulthood?
What is Development.
Which part of the brain is primarily responsible for higher cognitive functions such as reasoning, planning, and problem-solving?
What is Cerebral cortex.
A process of receiving sensory information from the environment.
What is Sensation
Information is maintained over time and can be retrieved later .
What is Memory.
What mindset is a belief that characteristics such as intelligence are set in stone and not easily changed.
What is Fixed Mindset
The period of rapid physical growth and change that occurs from birth to about 2 years old.
What is Infancy.
A structure connects the two cerebral hemispheres and enables communication between them?
What is Corpus Callosum.
What perspective focuses on observable behavior and the ways it is learned through reinforcement and punishment?
What is Behavioral perspective (Behaviorism).
This progressive brain disease most often seen in older adults causes memory loss, confusion, and difficulty performing daily tasks.
What is Alzheimer’s disease.
A theory of emotion proposes that physiological arousal and cognitive interpretation together produce the subjective experience of emotion.
What is Two-factor theory.
Piaget’s stage in which adolescents develop abstract and hypothetical reasoning.
What is Formal operational stage.
Identify the brain region most involved in forming new long-term declarative memories.
What is Hippocampus.
Sensory receptors become less sensitive after constant exposure.
What is Sensory Adaptation
Has a limited capacity and holds information temporarily for manipulation?
What is Short-term memory.
The theory that emotions result from interpreting our body´s reactions.
What is James-Lange theory of emotions
One method researcher use to assess infant attachment styles with wire mother.
What is Harry Harlow's Monkey experiment.
Which area of the brain is critical for producing spoken language.
What is Broca’s area.
Which approach in psychology emphasizes how thoughts, beliefs, and problem-solving influence behavior and emotion?
What is Cognitive perspective.
A general term for problems with remembering that can result from brain injury, illness, or psychological factors.
What is Amnesia.
The hierarchy of needs theory that places self-actualization at the top.
What is Maslow´s Hierarchy of needs.
What is Erikson’s stage for adolescence that centers on forming a stable sense of self and personal identity?
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion.
The brains relay station for sensory information sending signals to the appropriate cortex area.
What is Thalamus.
The brains ability to fill in missing information based on expectations.
What is Top-Down Processing