Sensation & Perception
This sense helps you detect light and see the world around you.
Answer: What is vision?
A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience is called this.
Answer: What is learning?
This type of memory stores facts and general knowledge.
Answer: What is semantic memory?
According to Piaget, infants develop object permanence during this stage.
Answer: What is the sensorimotor stage?
A method that collects data by asking participants a series of questions is called this.
Answer: What is a survey?
These photoreceptors are most active in dim light.
Answer: What are rods?
In operant conditioning, behavior is shaped by its ________.
Answer: What are consequences?
Bringing information from long-term memory back into awareness is called this.
Answer: What is retrieval?
Erikson described adolescence as the stage of this developmental conflict.
Answer: What is identity vs. confusion?
Mental frameworks that help organize and interpret information are called these.
Answer: What are schemata?
The process of converting physical energy (like light or sound) into neural signals is called this.
Answer: What is transduction?
Learning by watching others is known as this type of learning.
Answer: What is observational learning?
Organizing information into meaningful units to improve memory is called this.
Answer: What is chunking?
Understanding that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape demonstrates this concept.
Answer: What is conservation?
Processing guided by expectations and prior knowledge is known as this.
Answer: What is top-down processing?
This Gestalt principle explains why we see a complete image even when parts are missing.
Answer: What is closure?
When reinforcement is removed and a behavior decreases, this occurs.
Answer: What is extinction?
When old information interferes with learning new information, it is called this type of interference.
Answer: What is proactive interference?
Parents who are warm but set clear rules are using this parenting style.
Answer: What is authoritative parenting?
This ethical criticism was central to the Little Albert study.
Answer: What is causing emotional harm to a child (lack of ethical standards)?
This depth cue results from each eye receiving a slightly different image of the same object.
Answer: What is binocular disparity?
The reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response is called this.
Answer: What is spontaneous recovery?
Daily Double
This memory effect occurs when misleading information alters a person’s memory of an event.
A child who freezes or behaves inconsistently when a caregiver returns in the Strange Situation is showing this attachment style.
Answer: What is disorganized attachment?
Failing to notice a visible object because attention is directed elsewhere is known as this.
Answer: What is inattentional blindness?