Sensation & Perception
We process sensory input by using higher level thinking (memories, past experiences, expectations..)
Top Down Processing
Part of the brain that consolidates new memories (If you saw one on campus you would never forget!)
Hippocampus
Three main "measures of Central Tendency.."
Mean, Mode and Median
I studied monkeys and learned that comfort is more important than food when it comes to attachment
Harlow
The process of putting info into the memory system.
Encoding
This group of psychologists said we tend to perceive the whole rather than the parts...
Gestalt
Studied by Gazzaniga, this phenomenon found that people whose corpus callosum had been severed had hemispheres that acted independently - and one could not communicate with the other.
Split-Brain Theory
If a test measures what it is supposed to measure, it is considered ___________.
Valid
Piaget's 3rd stage- where a child masters conservation and understand simple logic
Concrete Operational
We can hold about this many things in our short term memory...
7
Tendency to group together objects that are near one another
Proximity
A tumor on this part of the brain might cause severe rage or fear
Amygdala
If a test has results that are consistent, it is considered ________.
Reliable
Integrity vs ________; the conflict at the "Old Age" stage according to Erikson
Despair
This model for memory - includes sensory, short term and long term memory
Atkinson-Shiffrin Model
I come up behind you and say "Boo!" - this is the reason you may jump the first time, but will respond less with repeated exposure.
Habituation
Another term for sensory neurons (neurons taking information TO the brain)
Afferent Neurons
The standard deviation for IQ is ___ pts.
15
I questioned the validity of Kohlberg's study; "Only boys....really?"
Gilligan
Being able to remember things at the end of a list
Recency effect
Type of processing when our brain registers sensory input...but without conscious awareness.
Subliminal
The inability (due to injury or disease) to make or understand language
aphasia
If men's shoe size goes up at the same rate as his height... this would be considered a
Positive Correlation
I identified a "Zone of Proximal Development" where children can develop skills with help- but not yet on their own.
Vygotsky
A type of encoding that uses the meaning of words.
Semantic