people who base their moral reasoning on the norms of society are operating in which stage of moral development?
What is conventional moral reasoning?
100
the field in which pychologists study how people grow and change throughout the life span
What is developmental pyschology?
100
behaviorists believe that heredity is less important to development than .....
What is the environment?
100
Behavior modification in which a person sets goals and creates a system of awards to encourage the desired behavior
What is a personal contract?
200
the process by which we recollect prior experiences and informtion, and skills learned in the past
What is memory?
200
People who make decisions based on the consequences of their behavior
What is pre-conventional moral reasoning?
200
form of development is concerned with how people’s thought processes evolve, or change over
What is cognitive development?
200
Behaviorists believe in continous development, rather than development through what
What are stages?
200
What kind of learning remains hidden till it is needed?
What is latent?
300
How long is information retained in short term memory
What is 10-12 seconds?
300
People who make decisions based on their personal values
What is post-conventional moral reasoning?
300
a stage or point in development during which a person is best suited to learn a specific skill or behavior pattern
What is a critical period?
300
Behaviorists believe that people develop continously, learning certain behaviors when they reach what is called a ......
What is a critical period?
300
Actions in which organisms display responses that were distinguished earlier
What is spontaneous recovery?
400
the organization of items into familiar units
What is chunking?
400
An adolescent who is lost, not trying to find or commit to any set of beliefs or values is in what status of identity develeopment according to James Marcia
What is diffusion?
400
a motor-development stage in infancy that comes before sitting, crawling or walking
What is rolling?
400
a type of study psychologists use to study development by studying the same people for a long period of time
What is longitudinal method?
400
Reinforcement that occurs every single time the same behavior occurs
What is continuous reinforcement?
500
the easiest of the three basic memory tasks
What is recognition?
500
An adolescent who is actively exploring and searching for values and beliefs, but is not yet ready to commit to anything in particular
What is moratorium?
500
value or worth that people attach to themselves
What is self-esteem?
500
When pychologists study many people at the same age