Memory
Remembering that Paris is the capital of France.
Semantic Memory
The sleep stage with the most vivid dreams.
REM
Knowing a hidden toy still exists.
Object Permanence
Baby geese following the first moving thing they see.
Imprinting
Pavlov’s dogs drooling at a bell.
Classical Conditioning
The brief afterimage of a camera flash.
Iconic Memory
Driving home on autopilot.
Minimal consciousness
Basic speech sounds like “sh” or “k.”
Phonemes
A toddler ignores mom when she leaves and returns.
Avoidant attachment
Losing your phone for missing curfew.
Negative punishment
Remembering 425-555-0198 in three groups.
Chunking
Freud’s term for a dream’s hidden meaning.
Latent Content.
The Piaget stage with logic, but only about concrete things.
Concrete operational
Kohlberg’s level focused on rules, laws, and approval.
Conventional
Slot machines pay out at unpredictable times.
variable ratio
New Spanish words block your memory of old French ones.
Retroactive interference
The logic center that quiets down during dreams.
Prefrontal cortex
A toddler learns that not every man is “Daddy.”
Accommodation
Understanding that others can believe something different than you.
Theory of mind
You carry an umbrella so you won’t get soaked.
negative reinforcement
After a crash, he can’t recall the years before it.
Retrograde Amnesia
Suppressing a thought before bed makes you dream about it.
Dream rebound.
A child says “I goed.” What is she doing?
Overgeneralizing grammar rules
Piaget: young kids judge by ___, older kids by ___.
Consequences; intentions
A cat runs at the sound of the can opener. Name the CS and CR.
CS = can opener sound; CR = running