Consciousness
Development
Learning
Memory & Language
Thinking & Intelligence
100
This highly focused, altered state of consciousness occurs when awareness of self and time diminishes due to complete absorption in an enjoyable activity (e.g., sports).

Flow

100
This sense is the poorest at birth, and doesn't function similarly to adults until age 1 year.

Vision

100

This type of observational learning occurs when you imitate a behavior that was previously observed.

Modeling

100

This type of memory stores nonverbal information about how to perform an action or behavior.

Procedural Memory

100

These collections of ideas, prior knowledge, and experiences help organize information and guide thought and behavior.

Schemas

200

This stage of sleep involves beta waves, eye movements, paralyzed motor systems, and dreaming.

REM Sleep

200
This period of physical growth in prenatal development is most important for development of the spinal cord, brain, and internal organs.

Embryonic Period

200

Taking away a teenager's phone when they stay out past curfew is an example of this type of operant conditioning consequence.

Negative Punishment

200

This type of rehearsal involves using working memory processes to repeat information over and over again, resulting in shallow encoding of auditory information.

Maintenance Rehearsal

200

This type of psychometric test of intelligence is designed to test the person's ability to learn and predict their future performance, such as the SAT and GRE.

Aptitude Test

300

This class of psychoactive drugs works on endorphins and produces pain reduction, euphoria, and relaxation.

Opioids

300

This stage from Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning is when moral reasoning is based on societal laws and the approval of others.

Conventional Level

300

This process in classical conditioning occurs when a previously extinguished conditioned response reemerges when the conditioned stimulus is presented again after a pause.

Spontaneous Recovery

300

This theory of language development emphasizes the importance of infant-directed speech and being immersed in language.

Social Interactionist

300

This theory of how we organize concepts into categories says that concepts are organized based on the single "most typical" member of the category.

Prototype Model

400

This type of attentional processing in the Two-Track Mind theory is fast and does not require a lot of mental resources, but involves less awareness of details.

Automatic Processing

400
According to Piaget, this stage of cognitive development is when children first understand the Law of Conservation and are no longer limited by egocentrism.

Concrete Operational

400

This type of non-associative learning occurs when you are more easily scared by normal noises after watching a scary movie alone at night.

Sensitization

400

This type of memory distortion occurs when we misremember the time, place, person, or circumstances involved with a memory.

Misattribution

400

This obstacle to problem-solving is the tendency to think of things based on their usual functions, such as in the Two Strings Problem.

Functional Fixedness

500

This theory of consciousness says that no one specific brain region is responsible for general awareness, and instead the brain regions that process information also produce awareness of that information.

Global Workspace Model

500

According to Erikson, this major crisis of middle adulthood is resolved when a person gains a sense that they are leaving behind a positive legacy and caring for future generations.

Generativity vs. Stagnation

500

This principle in operant conditioning says that a more valued activity can be used to reinforce the performance of a less valued activity.

Premack Principle

500

This problem in language comprehension occurs when the "same" sound is produced very differently by different people and in different contexts.

Lack of Invariance Problem

500

This theory says that there are eight different types of intelligence that are entirely independent of each other: musical, bodily-kinesthetic, linguistic, mathematical-logical, spatial, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and naturalistic.

Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences