Cognition
A problem solving technique that always results in the correct answer.
What is an algorithm?
The hippocampus is critical for this type of memory.
What is explicit memory?
External agents that cause birth defects are called this.
What are teratogens?
Freud’s pleasure principle is associated with this part of personality.
What is the Id?
Dr. Moen may be falling prey to this if she only pays attention to Taylor Swift news that is positive and praises the singer.
What is confirmation bias?
Only thinking of objects in terms of their typical function
What is functional fixedness?
When retrieval is easier because the context matches encoding, it’s called this.
What is encoding specificity?
Piaget’s term for fitting new info into existing schemas.
What is assimilation?
Universal, shared memories about opposing idea, such as goodness vs. darkness.
What are achetypes?
Rehearsal keeps information active in this type of memory.
What is working memory (short-term memory)?
When someone assumes that plane crashes happen more often than car crashes, because it's easier to think of examples of plane crashes.
What is the availability heuristic?
When older information interferes with new learning, it’s called this.
What is proactive interference?
Piaget’s stage where object permanence develops.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
The personality trait related to being creative, artistic, curious, and imaginative.
What is Openness?
Memories for facts and general information.
What is semantic memory?
IQ is calculated using this formula.
What is (mental age ÷ chronological age) × 100?
This memory process is most likely to happen during sleep.
What is consolidation?
Parenting styles differ on these two dimensions
What are responsiveness and demand?
The least scientifically valid way to assess personality.
What are projective tests?
The brain region that develops last in adolescence.
What is the frontal lobe?
A driving test asking questions from a driver's ed manual is an example of this.
What is test validity?
Patient H.M. suffered from this type of amnesia.
What is anterograde amnesia?
What is attachment?
The personality trait related to being calm, secure, relaxed, and stable.
What is neuroticism?
The part of personality that is responsible for conscience formation, according to Freud.
What is the Super Ego?