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Operant Conditioning
Memory
Prenatal Stages
Lifespan Development
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This law states the rewarded actions will be repeated.
What is Thorndike's Law of Effect?
100
This part of memory holds 5-9 items
What is short term memory?
100
A zygote is formed during this stage.
What is conception?
100
This person developed a stage theory that describes how children develop cognitively.
Who is Jean Piaget?
100
An organized way of thinking about the world. It involves routines, stereotypes, and expectations.
What is a schema?
200
Doing something and receiving a desired outcome.
What is positive reinforcement?
200
This type of long term memory involves memories for skilled performance and habits.
What is procedural memory?
200
Cell layers differentiate at this stage.
What is the germinal stage?
200
These are the basis for interacting with the world during the sensorimotor stage
What are reflexes?
200
Seeing someone rewarded for doing something, which makes you more likely to do the same thing.
What is vicarious reinforcement?
300
Doing something and having something aversive removed.
What is negative reinforcement?
300
This part of long term memory involves abstract and general knowledge.
What is semantic memory?
300
This stage is characterized by rapid growth and maturation.
What is the fetal stage?
300
The idea that an object still exists even when it is out of view. This develops during the sensorimotor stage.
What is object permanence?
300
This style of parenting is high in control and high in warmth.
What is authoritative?
400
The presentation of an aversive stimulus to eliminate undesirable behavior.
What is punishment?
400
This part of long term memory involves memory for specific times and days from your past.
What is episodic memory?
400
These are agents that alter normal development.
What are teratogens?
400
Heightened self-awareness and self-importance.
What is egocentricism?
400
These are the predictors of a successful marriage
What are age, homogamy, marital equity, and religiosity?
500
Seeing someone get punished for doing something, which makes you less likely to do the same thing.
What is vicarious punishment?
500
This principle states that memory is improved when cues available at the time a memory was made is also available at the time of retrieval.
What is encoding specificity?
500
This is critical with regard to the specific damage a teratogen causes.
What is timing?
500
Changing a schema to incorporate new information
What is assimilation?
500
The tendency of an animal to revert back to its instinctual behavior.
What is instinctual drift?