Learning
The decrease in response over time to a repetitive or constant stimulus; aka, "getting used to it"
What is habituation?
The cognitive bias that leads us to look form information that confirms our existing beliefs and ignore other information.
What is confirmation bias?
The activation of unconscious learned associations in memory
What is priming?
The ability to realize that things still exist even when we can't percieve them; the main challenge of the sensorimotor stage.
What is object permanence?
Taking away something bad to reward a desired behavior
What is negative reinforcment?
What are concepts?
Memory that is associate with a psychological or physical condition (e.g., drunkenness, mood congruence)
What is state dependent memory?
Style of parenting that is demanding and not responsive, overly restrictive, firm with no explanation, with little warmth.
What is authoritarian parenting?
Repeated presenting the conditioned stimulus (CS) without the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) to weaken the association and stop the learned behavior
What is a extinction?
What is the simulation heuristic?
According to Karl Lashley, this is where memories are stored (cut out different parts of rat brains to learn this)!
What is all over the brain?
The ability to understand that properties of objects (e.g., mass, volume) remain the same even if the form of the object changes; the main task of the concrete operational stage
What is conservation?
When you associate the taste of a food with sickness and can no longer eat it
What is taste aversion?
One of these representations is a mental copy of the information in it's original form, whereas the other uses language or verbal descriptions
What is the difference between analog and symbolic representation?
Condensing information into meaningful groups to increase the capacity of working memory
What is chunking?
Children with this attachment style that explore haphazardly, is dazed and confused by caregiver. Parents of children with this attachment style are intrusive, abusive, and behave in frightening and confusing way.
What is disorganized attachment style?
Schedule of reinforcement that causes extinction to occur more quickly.
What is continuous reinforcement?
what Charles Spearman said that intelligence was (measured one general ability)
What is (Spearman's) g-factor?
One possible reason for forgetting; information never made it to storage.
What is encoding failure?
Mary Ainsworth's task to measure attachment; series of separations from and reunions with mother.
What is the strange situation?