Learning
Memory
Lifespan
Mystery
Bravery
100
Any relatively permanent behavior brought about by change or practice
What is learning?
100
The category of memories that includes our memory for facts (semantic) and experiences (episodic).
What is declarative memory?
100
Arising from genetic influences or inherited traits.
What is nature?
100
The type of learning that involves voluntary behavior, reinforcement, and the works of scientists like Skinner.
What is operant conditioning?
100
Our tendency to better remember the first or last items in a sequence or list.
What is the serial position effect?
200
When the CS is presented without the UCS until the CR dies out.
What is extinction?
200
A memory system for current, working, active information that you are using during a task in the present moment.
What is working/short-term memory?
200
The period during which tremendous growth occurs in womb.
What is the fetal period?
200
One of the reasons we discussed about why extreme or overly harsh punishment is not effective.
Answers vary: largely associating negative feelings with punisher instead of the action that is being punished
200
Our tendency to more easily remember memories that we encoded when in a similar mood or situation (e.g., better able to remember other sad memories when you are feeling sad)
What is state-dependent learning?
300
Something that follows a behavior that makes you more likely to want to engage in that behavior again.
What is reinforcement?
300
The three processes of memory
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
300
An example of this would be when toddler is talking on the phone with his grandmother and asks her what the animal on the tv is, even though she cannot see it.
What is egocentrism?
300
The Erikson stage that involves either gaining a sense of having given back or having produced something of meaning for future generations, or having failed to do so. Related at times to "mid-life crisis" due to this.
What is generativity vs. stagnation?
300
A form of attachment where the child is able to be comforted and resume play once the caregiver comes back into the room.
What is secure attachment?
400
One of the many popular/media applications of Bandura's research using Bobo.
What is desensitization to violence in television, social learning and norms, social learning and aggression, etc
400
The process of memory that you are having a problem with, when you are experiencing the tip of the tongue phenomenon.
What is retrieval?
400
The new cell that is created once the sperm and egg unite.
What is a zygote?
400
A category of studies that have helped us to better understand what traits tend to be related to nature and what traits tend to be related to nurture. (Hint: studies with a particular group of people)
What are twin studies/reunited twin studies?
400
Our tendency at a certain point in development to perceive ourselves as particularly unique, special, and/or invincible. Sometimes this leads to thoughts such as "that may happen to others, but I will be fine," or "no one can understand me."
What is the personal fable?
500
An example of negative punishment.
Answers vary (e.g., grounding, losing privileges, time out or loss of attention)
500
A type of memory loss where memories from prior to/before the accident or damage or lost or inaccessible.
What is retrograde amnesia?
500
The Erikson stage in young adulthood when the development of close, meaningful relationships is the major conflict for development.
What is intimacy vs. isolation?
500
The repeat or replay function in our heads that allows us to temporarily extend echoic memory.
What is the phonological loop?
500
The type of reinforcement schedule that involves being reinforced sporadically over varying periods of time (e.g., fishing).
What is variable interval reinforcement?
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