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Behaviorist who studied classical conditioning in dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Close bond that an infant forms with a specific caregiver.
What is attachment?
Idea that human behavior is a product of genetics AND environmental factors.
What is nature vs. nurture?
The brain's ability to adapt in response to environmental input.
What is plasticity?
The substance developed in the brain to improve speed and efficiency of information transfer.
What is myelin?
Psychologist who designed a theory of cognitive development with four distinct stages.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Extent to which genes are responsible for differences among groups of similar people.
What is heritability?
Pathway focused on how people with the same initial experience can develop different later outcomes.
What is multifinality?
Capacity to withstand or recover from challenges that threaten wellbeing.
What is resilience?
Name for the finding that IQ scores have steadily increased over the past several decades.
What is the Flynn Effect?
Psychologist who developed the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
Definition for a variable based on how a researcher plans on measuring it.
What is an operational definition?
Theory of love characterized by three main components.
What is Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love?
The ability to think about one's own thinking.
What is metacognition?
Type of reinforcement schedule used by a slot machine.
What is variable ratio?
Psychologist who developed the Ecological Systems theory.
Who is Urie Bronfenbrenner?
DAILY DOUBLE! Wear and tear on the body as a result of repeated and/or chronic stress.
What is allostatic load?
Idea that language influences cognitive development and how we understand the world.
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
Cognitive tasks that allow us to plan, focus our attention, solve problems, and juggle multiple tasks.
What is executive function (EF)?
List the six "basic" emotions.
What is anger, fear, disgust, surprise, happiness, and sadness?
Psychologist who developed the Two Factor Theory of Emotion.
Who is Daniel Schacter?
Term used to describe how infants transition from universal listeners to native listeners in their first year of life.
What is perceptual narrowing?
Personality traits included in the Five-Factor model.
What is openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism?
A unique feature of the human language that allows us to create endless combinations of meaning.
The name of the law that describes the how different degrees of cortisol affect daily functioning.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law?