True or False: Memories are stored only in the hippocampus.
False
100
When reasoning, the tendency to rely too strongly on info that is readily available & ignore info that is less available.
What is the availability bias?
100
What are the LAD & the LASS?
Language Acquisition Device
Language Acquisition Support System
100
True or False: Boys are more risk takers.
True
200
What are the 3 components to the working memory?
What is the Phonological loop, central executive, visuospatial sketchpad
200
Grouping units of information together which allows for improved encoding and better recall of info, and increases the amount of information that can be remembered.
What is Chunking
200
Roughly how much of intelligence is due to genetics/environment based on heritability coefficients?
0.50, 50%
200
Infants use this to shape their behavior. Give an example.
What is Social referencing
200
What are the 3 types of attachment?
Secure, Anxious, & Avoidant
300
The information in a person's mind and the capacity to store and retrieve that information.
What is Memory
300
True or False: Elaboration helps to promote encoding.
True
300
The phenomenon where people tend to confirm (-) stereotypes for their group when they are made aware of them.
What is Stereotype threat
300
Fitting new experiences into existing schemas is known as ___________. Changing existing schemas to accommodate new experiences is known as __________.
Assimilation, Accommodation
300
The emotional bond between an infant and their primary caregiver.
H.M. suffered from temporal lobe amnesia/anterograde amnesia; leaving him unable to form new LTM's after his surgery.
400
__________ is the ability to perceive relationships among stimuli independent of practice or instruction.(Adaptability)
__________ is mental ability derived from previous experience. (General knowledge)
Fluid Intelligence, Crystallized Intelligence
400
The realm of activities that a child cannot do alone but can do in collaboration with others.
What is the zone of proximal development?
400
What did Harlow's rhesus monkey experiment reveal about infant attachment?
Harlow's research demonstrated the importance of contact comfort in attachment.
500
What is the difference between anterograde amnesia & retrograde amnesia?
With anterograde amnesia, the individual cannot form new long term memories. With retrograde amnesia, the individaul cannot retrieve old long term memories from before the incident.
500
List in order at least 7 of the 8 parts in the Information Processing Theory of Mind.
What 2 factors affect insight problems? How can you make insight problems easier to solve?
Mental Sets & Functional Fixedness. Thinking "outside-of-the-box" or practice can make insight problems easier to solve.
500
How do Piaget, Vygotsky, & the information-processing theories of cognitive development differ?
Piaget focuses on the physical environment, Vygotsky emphasized the social environment, and the information-processing theory focuses on the changes in components of "mental machinery"
500
Your aunt asks you to take care of her baby while she goes to the grocery store. When she returns home from the grocery store, her baby ignores her and cries when picked up. What kind of attachment style does your aunt's child have?