Dev. Psychology
Father of Classical conditioning
What is Ivan Pavlov?
How people differ in behavior, feelings, reactions to the environment and to other people
What is personality?
The formation of new synapses between neurons in your brain?
What is learning?
This part of the brain is strongly associated with memory.
What is the hippocampus?
What type of motivation is considered the most important?
What is intrinsic motivation?
A term meaning higher level respondent behavior
What is conditioning?
The type of personality that feels time pressured, easy angered, and competitive
What is Type A?
The process of “finding” information previously stored in memory
What is retrieval?
What stage of memory is missing from this diagram:
________ --> Short-Term/Working Memory --> Long-Term Memory
What is Sensory Memory?
External rewards such as money, fringe benefits, job security?
What are extrinsic rewards?
The Erikson stage of development related to deepening of close relationships
What is Young Adulthood; Stage 6; Intimacy vs. Isolation?
The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
The inability to locate material stored in long-term memory
What is retrieval failure?
When an OLD memory interferes with remembering NEW information
What is Proactive Interference?
A big part of self-determination is _____
What is valuing yourself?
When reinforcement is no longer given following the conditioned stimulus
What is extinction?
Personality tests, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provide ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics
What are projective tests?
A type of knowledge learned via meaningful learning.
What is declarative knowledge?
A type of experiment where subjects were shown a video of an accident between two cars and asked questions to recite their memory if it
What is the Loftus Experiment?
The base level of Maslow's hierarchy
A type of conditioning in which change in consequences of response will affect the rate at which the response occurs
What is Operant Conditioning?
The childhood stages of development during which the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
The idea that learning is accelerated through the learner working with or the teaching of a "More Knowledgeable Other"?
What is the zone of proximal development?
The inability to remember past episodic information; common after head injury
What is retrograde amnesia?
A type of level on Maslow's hierarchy related to personal growth
What is Self-Actualization?