Classical & Operant Conditioning
This is a type of learning in which an animal or human learns to associate two stimuli with each other.
What is Classical Conditioning?
An involuntary muscle response that occurs when a baby's check or mouth is stoked.
What is the rooting reflex?
The belief that your experiences are unique and others can't understand.
What is adolescent egocentrism?
The time between adolescence and adulthood.
What is emerging adulthood?
A system of symbols, and rules used to communicate ideas, thoughts, and emotions.
What is language?
These are the 4 components of classical conditioning.
What are unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response?
This experiment shows an infant's ability to perceive depth.
What is the visual cliff experiment?
Stories of their life that are idealized & special that make them feel invincible.
What is personal fable?
Cultural expectations about the timing of life events.
What is a social clock?
The smallest unit of meaning in a language.
This is the reappearance after a pause of an extinguished conditioned response.
What is spontaneous recovery?
A type of attachment in which the child is upset when the the parent leaves but when the parent returns makes every effort to touch caregiver and returns to play.
What is secure attachment?
A component of the identity development theory in which one is committed after exploring options.
What is identity achievement?
Decreased mobility, flexibility, reaction time. Reduced sensory acuity.
What are physical changes in adulthood?
A subset of grammar that focuses on the order of words in a sentence.
What is syntax?
The tendency to respond to stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus.
What is stimulus generalization?
A type of insecure attachment in which the child may cry when the parent leaves but when the parent returns they may seek comfort but then freeze or fall.
What is disorganized?
An identity development theory component in which there is no commitment or exploration.
What is identity diffusion?
Accumulated knowledge that increases with age.
What is crystalized intelligence?
An idea that suggests all humans share an innate ability to learn grammar regardless of the language.
What is universal grammar?
This is the idea that behaviors followed by reinforcement are likely to be repeated and behaviors followed by punishment are less likely to be repeated.
What is the Law of Effect?
An aspect of personality concerned with emotional dispositions and reactions. Specifically the speed and intensity of reactions. It is related to how children attach to caregivers.
What is temperament?
A component to the identity development theory in which there is commitment without exploration.
What is identity foreclosure?
A leading cause of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
Theorized the idea of universal grammar.
Who is Noam Chomsky?