A stimulus that before conditioning, does not naturally bring about the response of interest.
What is A NEUTRAL STIMULUS
100
The initial, momentary storage of information, lasting only an instant.
What is SENSORY MEMORY.
100
Typical, highly representative examples of a concept
What is a prototype.
100
The accumulation of information, skills, and strategies that are learned through experience and can be applied in problem - solving situations.
What is CRYSTALLIZED INTELLIGENCE.
100
Inborn patterns of behavior that are biologically determined rather than learned.
What is (are) INSTINCTS.
200
A formalized technique for promoting the frequency of desirable behaviors and decreasing the incidence of unwanted ones.
What is BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
200
___________________ occurs when the information is considered and organ zed in some fashion.
What is ELABORATIVE REHEARSAL
200
The tendency to think of an object only in terms of its typical use.
What is FUNCTIONAL FIXEDNESS.
200
Calculate the chronological age for this Sigmund Freud.
Date of Test = August 9, 2011
Date of Birth = December 19, 1995
What is 15YEARS 7MONTHS 21DAYS
200
The particular level of weight that the body strives to maintain.
What is the WEIGHT SET POINT.
300
The discovery of _______________ fire when we observe another person carrying out a behavior suggests that the capacity to imitate others may be innate.
What is MIRROR NEURONS
300
The ______________ is especially involved with memories involving emotion.
What is the AMYGDALA.
300
The rules governing the meaning of words and sentences.
What is SEMANTICS.
300
With _______________ _____________, every test - taker does not receive identical sets of test questions.
What is ADAPTIVE TESTING.
300
A tendency to seek impact, control, or influence over others and to be seen as a powerful individual.
What is the NEED FOR POWER.
400
A mental representation of spatial locations and directions.
What is a COGNITIVE MAP.
400
The first attempts to study forgetting were made by German psychologist __________________________ about 100 years ago.
What (who) is HERMAN EBBINGHAUS
400
The phenomenon by which children apply language rules even when the application results in an error.
What is OVERGENERALIZATION.
400
Intellectual disability in which no apparent biological defect exists but there is a history of it in the family.
What is FAMILIAL RETARDATION.
400
The theory that proposes the belief that both physiological arousal and emotional experience are produced simultaneous by the same nerve stimulus.
What is the CANNON - BARD THEORY OF EMOTION.
500
A psychological disorder that can lead them to abuse themselves by tearing at their skin or banging their heads against the wall, and possibly injuring themselves severely in process.
What is AUTISM
500
A disease that effects long term alcoholics.
What is KORSAKOFF'S SYNDROME.
500
The notion that language shapes and may determine the way people in a particular culture perceive and understand the world.
What is the LINGUISTIC - RELATIVITY HYPOTHESIS.
500
The average person today gets more items correct on IQ tests than the average person several generations ago, scores have risen significantly, a phenomenon know as the ______________________.
What is the FLYNN EFFECT.
500
The hypothesis that facial expressions not only reflect emotional experience but also help determine how people experience and label emotions.