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Development
Sensation & Perception
Learning
Memory
Anything Goes
100
The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
What is cognition
100
These are the cells for visual processing located closest to the back of the retina.
What are rods and cones
100
This is the association of two stimuli.
What is Classical Conditioning
100
This is the process of getting information into memory.
What is encoding.
100
Harlow's monkeys teach us about this concept.
What is Attachment.
200
This psychologist was most influential in shaping our understanding of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget
200
This is the process of receiving and representing stimulus energies by the nervous system.
What is sensation
200
The study of Operant Conditioning is attributed to this psychologist.
Who is B.F. Skinner
200
This is the process of getting information out of memory.
What is retrieval.
200
This part of the ear is a fluid-filled tube in which sound waves trigger nerve impulses.
What is the cochlea
300
This is when you interpret new experiences in terms of existing schemas.
What is assimilation
300
This is the minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time.
What is absolute threshold
300
This is the ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.
What is discrimination
300
This storage component of memory is limited by 7 plus or minus 2 chunks of information.
What is Working Memory (or Short-Term)
300
In Pavlov's experiments, this is what the dog's salivation was after it was triggered by the sound of a tone.
What is the conditioned response
400
According to Kohlberg, this stage involves affirmation of self-defined ethical principles.
What is postconventional morality
400
This is when you perceive objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change.
What is perceptual constancy
400
This is any stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens the response.
What is a negative reinforcer
400
This is the retention of skills and dispositions without conscious recollection.
What is implicit memory
400
This is the principle that some children are not able to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same despite changes in its shape.
What is conservation
500
These are two forms of intelligence.
What are fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence
500
This principle suggests that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
What is Gestalt principle
500
This is characterized by our ability to learn by witnessing the behavior of others.
What is Observational Learning (BANDURA)
500
This is the reason that it is difficult to recall old information after learning new information.
What is Retroactive Interference
500
Peterson and Peterson demonstrated that unrehearsed short-term memories will completely decay in this amount of time.
What is 12 seconds