From Seconds to a Lifetime
Miller (1965) proposed this amount of information can be held in short-term memory.
7 +/- 2
The distance an infant can see at birth.
One foot
The type of cells that guide neurons into place during fetal brain development.
Glial
A factor aside from evidence that affects how people make attributions.
Biases
The Stanford Prison Experiment exemplifies this state where a person loses their sense of self when they are in a group.
Deindividuation
A filled delay bumps information out of short-term memory, eliminating this.
The recency effect
An attachment style that is exhibited by goslings but not humans.
Imprinting
Another name for an engram.
Memory trace
The name for a situation in which a person attributes behaviors to internal qualities instead of situation influences.
Fundamental Attribution Error
In the Quizmaster study, this person was observed to have the least amount of knowledge.
Contestant
The process by which memories are made more permanent over time.
Consolidation
An infants’ reliance on others’ facial expressions as a source of info.
Social referencing
The brain loci of short-term memory.
Frontal cortex
A car commercial highlighting the mileage, engine size, and towing capacity of a vehicle appeals to this route to persuasion.
Central
This effect reveals pseudo object permanence for infants in the sensorimotor stage.
A-not-B effect
The three components of working memory.
Executive control, phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad
The space in which accomplishments are just beyond what the child can do on their own.
Zone of Proximal Development
The name for a rough wiring diagram of the brain’s circuits designated by genetic information.
Protomap
This type of influence highlights people’s desire to be liked or not appear foolish.
Normative
The percentage of participants who obeyed the experimenter in the Milgram (1963) experiment until the end.
65%
Incongruity defined with respect to the immediate context is referred to as this kind of effect.
Von Restorff Effect
Children in this Piaget stage cannot represent two dimensions simultaneously.
Preoperational period
The first step in moving information to long-term memory.
Encoding
A teacher awards stars to students for answering questions, encouraging them to participate, exemplifying this type of conditioning.
Operant
Studies on this ability reveal that infants understand other people’s intentions.
Theory of Mind