Development
This term refers to the strong emotional bond formed between an infant and caregiver.
What is attachment?
The idea that your expressions can change or affect your emotions.
What is the Facial Feedback Hypothesis?
This law states that performance improves with arousal up to a point, and then decreases
What is Yerkes-Dobson Law Bell Curve
This type of sample fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion.
What is a random sample.
This system of memory holds information collected from your environment for a few seconds
What is sensory memory?
This psychologist is known for his 8 stages of psychosocial development, including trust vs. mistrust.
Who is Erik Erikson?
The idea that positive emotions help with coping with negative emotions, increase awareness, & help stimulate new actions & ways of thinking while negative emotions decrease it.
What is the Broaden-and-Build Theory?
This is a theory that suggest people are motivated by a drive for rewards and reinforcement
What is incentive theory
This is when researchers look at many cases in less depth and ask people to report their own behaviors or opinions.
What is a survey
The process of turning short-term memories into long-term ones.
What is memory consolidation?
This developmental stage, from birth to 2 years old in Piaget's theory, is when infants learn through senses and actions.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
The theory that emotions are based off a physiological reaction which is based on a stimulus.
What is James-Lange Theory?
This theory states that people are motivated by intrinsic or extrinsic motivations.
What is self-determination theory
This statistical measure (expressed as a r value) shows the strength and direction of a relationship between two variables.
What is a correlation coefficient?
This memory technique involves grouping items into large pieces to make them easier to remember.
What is chunking?
This parenting style is demanding but responsive and is associated with the most positive outcomes in children.
What is authoritative parenting?
The theory states that you have a physiological reaction & a cognitive placement of how you should react which then causes the emotion to occur
What is the Schachter-Singer Two-Factor Theory?
This is a part of Lewin's Conflict Theory that states, a situation involving a choice between two equally desirable but incompatible alternatives.
What is approach-approach?
This is when one data set rises while the other falls.
What is negative correlation.
This type of memory involves recalling facts
What is semantic memory?
This concept, introduced by Vygotsky, refers to the difference between what a child can do alone and with help.
What is the zone of proximal development?
The theory is that emotions happen simultaneously with a physical reaction,but are both caused by a stimulus.
What is the Cannon-Bard Theory?
This is the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need and restore the body to homeostasis, or balance
What is drive-reducation theory?
This phrase disproves the following information: Balding men have longer lasting marriages.
What is correlation is not causation?
This happens when a piece of new information interferes with recalling old memories.
What is retroactive interference?