Reinforce This!
Claire gives her niece a sticker everytime she uses good manners. The sticker is considered what?
Reinforcer
In Developmental Psychology, developmental changes are grouped into three domains
physical, cognitive, and psychosocial
You observed your brother getting punished for breaking curfew so you learn to get home on time so you don't get in trouble.
Vicarious Conditioning
This refers to any substance that can cause malformation or negative effects on a developing fetus during prenatal development.
Teratogen
The process of detecting physical stimuli from the environment
Sensation
Students collect classroom bucks and turn them in for extra recess time.
Token Economy
This age group is reportedly the happiest and has the fewest mental health problems
60's and beyond
You can teach a dog to surf using this operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior.
Shaping
This period in prenatal development is when everything is in place; the brain continues to develop, bodily structures are refined, and the fetus grows in length and weight and accumulates fat in preparation for birth.
Fetal Period
These receptors in our eyes are responsible for our ability to see in low light conditions.
Rods
Your mom makes you rake all of the leaves in the yard because you came home an hour past your curfew.
Positive Punishment
An indulgent parenting style where there are few rules or expectations.
Permissive Parenting
Through this theory we learn that the consequences of an action determine the likelihood that the action will be performed again.
Operant Conditioning
Harlow’s findings showed that this is critical in the socio-emotional infant development.
Comforting Touch
The most important brain region involved in sexual behavior
Hypothalamus
You hear the sound of a Snapchat notification and check your phone, only to realize it was your classmate who got the notification.
Generalization
According to Erikson’s theory, adolescents face this, the most fundamental psychosocial crisis.
Identity vs Role Confusion
During the famous experiment with “Little Albert,” Albert learned to fear rats when researchers used classical conditioning and presented a...
loud sound as the unconditioned stimulus.
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Operational, and Concrete Operational.
Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development
The process through which individuals learn and internalize the behaviors, attitudes, and expectations associated with their gender.
Gender Role Socialization
This theory came from Bobo's beatdown: Children can learn and imitate behaviors simply by observing others, rather than through direct experience.
Social Learning Theory
Rooting, Moro (startle), and Grasping
Examples of inborn reflexes
Teacher says if everyone stays quiet during reading time, they will not have to do the weekend homework assignment. This is an example of...
Negative Reinforcement
The process of altering existing schemas or creating new ones in response to new information.
Accommodation
After trapping hungry cats in his puzzle box, he determined that behaviors followed by satisfying outcomes are more likely to be repeated.
Thorndike's Law of Effect