Process of getting information into memory
What is encoding?
part of the eye that focuses light toward the retina
What is the lens?
smallest unit of sound
What are phonemes?
These are the three main parenting styles and what they are like
What are authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive?
In classical conditioning, triggers a response without needing to be learned
What is unconditioned stimulus?
Recall decreases rapidly at first but then plateaus in this curve
What is the (Ebbinghaus) forgetting curve?
These cells are located only on the fovea and allow us to see color
What are cones?
Rules in language that allow communication
what is grammar?
Shared cultural expectations of age-appropriate milestones
What is the social clock?
In operant conditioning, taking away something bad to increase behavior
What is negative reinforcement?
Before the age of three this part of the brain is forming which causes infantile amnesia
What is the hippocampus?
This theory of color vision explains why we see after images
What is opponent process theory?
Stage of language defined by using exclusively vowel sounds
What is the cooing stage?
The smallest part of ecological systems theory (beyond the individual) it looks at immediate environment interactions
What is the microsystem?
A reinforcement schedule defined by a changing number of responses required for reinforcement to occur (Think slot machines)
What are variable ratio schedules?
Seeing earlier information prepares you to remember something later on
What is priming?
The process of the lens changing shape to focus images on the retina
What is accommodation?
Grammar mistake when children overuse semantic rules. I go-ed to the park
What is overregularization?
Erikson Stage occurring from ages 3-6. Children learn to carryout plans and be creative
What is initiative vs guilt?
Encoding that requires understanding the meaning
What is semantic encoding?
This memory type is all about remembering what to do in the future. EX. Remembering to pick up the milk
What is Prospective Memory?
These cells create optic nerves
What are Ganglion Cells?
Rules for making words into sentences
What is syntax?
Part of Marcia's identity theory where an individual has no commitment or exploration of their identity. They are drifting
What is Identity Diffusion?
Field of psychology and education that creates tests
What is psychometrics?