Keeping It Classic
While you were having a joyous picnic with your significant other this sort of catchy song started playing. Now any time that song plays you start smiling and feeling happy. This is the UCS...
What is your significant other?
A young boy comes home from school and uses a "sentence enhancer" he learned from his friends. The parents were shocked and washed his mouth out with soap so he won't use those words again. They used this operant technique.
What is Positive Punishment?
This concept explains why kids mimic the behavior they see their parents do. Observing other peoples behavior results in individuals copying the same action. This concept of Modeling was demonstrated in this psychology experiment.
What is the Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment?
This stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development is primarily focused on the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. As well as early motor development.
What is the Sensorimotor Stage?
A successful resolution of this stage requires the caregiver to meet the child's needs due to their inability to provide for themselves. If they don't they will become suspicious of the world.
What is Trust vs. Mistrust?
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets new information early on in life.
What is a schema?
This is the most popular game-day dip in the US. Hope you are ready to make it for the Super Bowl!
What is the Buffalo Chicken Dip?
A person eats a hamburger at a restaurant and develops a very bad stomachache after finishing eating. As a result of the sudden illness, the person cannot eat hamburgers anymore. Just thinking about them makes the person feel sick to the stomach. In this scenario, the thought of a hamburger is
What is Conditioned Stimulus?
A teenager brings home their report card with 3 A's and a B. As a result, their parent takes them out to buy new parts for their computer. The parent is using this operant technique.
What is positive reinforcement?
While trying to encourage her student to turn in their assignments more regularly. A teacher gave the student a airhead for every 4 assignments submitted. The teacher is using this reinforcement schedule.
What is Fixed Ratio?
If while playing with a infant, you hide their favorite toy behind your back, and they crawl around you to get it, then they have demonstrated they have developed this.
What is object permanence ?
At this stage, we are looking back on our lives with fondness and pride or disappointment in a life that was wasted.
What is Integrity vs. Despair?
Parents set few rules, make minimal demands, and allow their children to reach their own conclusions.
What is Permissive Parenting?
This is the most popular emoji on social media.
What is the Tears of Joy Emoji?
You are in a coffee shop when you hear the familiar tone of your message notification. You excitingly reach for your phone only to find out in was someone else's phone and you have no texts. The excitement to the tone is what in classical conditioning?
What is a conditioned response?
A parent wants to reward they kid for being so consistent with their chores. So they let them stay home instead of going to the old folks home to clean old peoples diapers. These parents are effectively using this operant technique.
What is negative reinforcement?
Using money as a way of conditioning behavior is due to humans treating it as a __________ because it can be used to obtain things like food, affection, and shelter.
What is Secondary Reinforcer?
The final stage of Piaget's cognitive development, Formal Operational, is marked primarily by the ability to...
What is Abstract Thinking?
Teenagers in this stage struggle with their sense of self due to others (Parents, Friends, Teachers) expectations of them and what they want for themselves when they grow up.
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
Process of adjusting old schemas or developing new ones to incorporate new information. Ex. Creating distinct differences between cats and dogs.
What is accommodation?
This is Newton's First Law of Motion.
What is "A body in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by another force."?
A stimulus that does not trigger a natural response can be used as a _________ at the beginning of classical conditioning experiment.
What is a Neutral Stimulus?
The concept in Operant Conditioning developed by Edward Thorndike that behaviors followed by desirable outcomes will occur more and those followed by undesirable will occur less.
What is the Law of Effect?
When a conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus, a resulting decrease in the conditioned response is called
What is extinction?
Understanding that certain physical characteristics (such as volume) remain unchanged, even when their outward appearance changes.
What is conservation?
Young adults in this stage are trying to find a significant other to share their identity with and maintain close friendships. If they fail they will experience severe loneliness.
What is Intimacy vs. Isolation?
If a child explores freely while their mother is near, cries when the mother leaves but will become soothed and explore again, only to seek her out when she returns. They demonstrate...
What is a Secure Attachment?
This is the name of the DnD-inspired monster that is the focal point of the popular show Stranger Things.
What is the Demogorgon?
When an conditioned response is triggered by related stimuli. Ex. A bell and a chime both trigger salivation. Then the subject is exhibiting...
What is Stimulus Generalization?
A kid is hitting their sibling, so their parent takes away some of their TV time each time they hit them. The parent is utilizing this operant technique.
What is negative punishment?
Learning what behaviors to do or not to do based on witnessing the reinforcement and punishment of others is called...
What is Vicarious Conditioning?
Children in this stage of Piaget's Cognitive Dev. begin to use words and pictures to represent objects. Children struggle to see things from the perspective of others. The emergence of language is one of the major hallmarks of this stage as pretend play is key.
What is the preoperational stage?
The primary focus at this stage in life is to be a creative and productive person who nurtures the next generation. Otherwise one is likely to experience a midlife crisis.
What is Generativity vs. Stagnation?
Parents set firm rules, make reasonable demands, and listen to their child's viewpoint while still insisting on responsible behavior.
What is Authoritative Parenting?
This is the most used spice throughout the world. Prevalent in cooking in many popular cuisines.
What is Black Pepper?
The natural human response to avoid experiences due to past instances of pain or illness is an example of...
What is Aversive Conditioning?
You check your email throughout the day. Sometimes having the exciting experience of having new emails. You are experiencing this reinforcement schedule.
What is Variable Interval?
A mental representation of a person's physical environment, or a process or concept. These help people navigate, give directions, and learn or recall information.
What is a cognitive map?
When children struggle to understand others have their own perspectives and see things from others viewpoint they are demonstrating...
What is Egocentrism?
School-aged kids are learning new skills, both academic and social, and then comparing themselves and their abilities to others around them.
What is Industry vs. Inferiority?
An optimal period early in the life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces normal development.
What is the critical period?
This is the average weigh of a cloud.
What is 1 Million lbs?