Development Part I
The process by which certain animals form strong attachments during early in life. Konrad Lorenz studied this.
What is imprinting?
The principle that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape.
What is conservation?
The reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response
What is spontaneous recovery?
Withdrawing a (usually rewarding) stimulus to decrease a behavior.
What is negative punishment?
What is identity v. role confusion?
a set of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences.
What is syntax?
The diminishing of a conditioned response.
What is exinction?
The tendency, once has response has been conditioned, for a stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses
What is generalization?
People’s ideas about their own and other’s mental states
What is the theory of mind?
Who is Harry and Margaret Harlow?
A biological predisposition to learn associations, such as between taste and nausea that have survival value
What is preparedness?
A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses
What is fixed-ratio schedule?
The zone between what a child can and can't do. It is what a child can do with help.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
Humans’ innate predisposition to understand the principles and rules that govern grammar in all languages. This was theorized by Noam Chomsky.
What is universal grammar(UG)?
A procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second(often weaker) conditioned stimulus
What is higher-order conditioning?
The tendency of learned behavior to gradually revert to biologically predisposed patterns
What is instinctive drift?
Acquired (not lifelong) disorders marked by cognitive deficits
What is neurocognitive disorder(NCD)?
The acquisition of traditional masculine or feminine roles.
This psychologist conducted the Bobo Doll Experiment which showed that the children who viewed the adult’s violent actions were more likely to lash out at the doll
Who is Albert Bandura?
The principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely.
What is the law of effect?