Chapter 7
This is a mental construct consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts.
What is a Schema?
This is an active system that receives, organizes, alters, stores, and retrieves information
What is Memory?
What are physical, cognitive and psychosocial?
This is the process by which activities are started, directed, and continued so that physical or psychological needs or wants are met.
What is motivation?
This is a group’s expectation of what is appropriate and acceptable behavior for its members, how they are supposed to behave and think.
What are social norms?
This is the system of rules for combining words and phrases to form grammatically correct sentences
What is syntax?
This is the shortest form of memory.
What is sensory memory?
The argument on whether inherited characteristics or the environment has more of an impact on development.
What is nature vs. nurture?
This is the biologically determined and innate patterns of behavior that exist in both people and animals; behavior patterns that are not learned.
What are instincts?
In this famous experiment, students were made into either prisoners or guards in which they fully took on their roles. This happened so much so the experiment had to be ended early for safety reasons.
This theory of intelligence believes that there are nine types of intelligence ranging from verbal, linguistic, and mathematical to interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence
What is Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
This allows something to stay in short term memory for a longer period of time.
What is rehersal?
These are the 5 stages of death and dying.
What are the stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
This theory focuses on ones needs and has stages in the shape in a pyramid including physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem and self-actualization.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
This is a sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a person’s behavior does not correspond to that person’s attitudes or positive self-perceptions.
What is cognitive dissonance?
Mental age divided by chronological age.
What is intelligence quotient or IQ?
This is a type of long-term memory including memory for skills, procedures, habits, and conditioned responses. These memories are not conscious but are implied to exist because they affect conscious behavior.
What is Procedural/Implicit (non-declarative) memory?
This theory has 4 stages which include Sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, Concrete operational stage, and formal operational stage.
What is Jean Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development?
This theory of emotion states that a physiological reaction leads to the labeling of emotions.
What is the James-Lange theory of emotion?
This technique of persuasion is when someone asks for a large commitment and after being refused, asks for a smaller commitment.
What is door-in-the-face technique?
This form of intelligence is acquired knowledge and the ability to retrieve it.
What is Crystallized Intelligence?
This is a type of automatic encoding that occurs because an unexpected event has strong emotional associations for the person remembering it-generally results in an exceptionally clear recollection
What are flashbulb memories?
This is stage 6 of Erikson's stages of development in which a person is either decides to spend their life with a partner or by themselves.
What is Intimacy vs. Isolation?
These are the 7 universal expression of emotions.
What are happiness, surprise, sadness, fright, disgust, contempt and anger?
This experiment showed the people will listen to authority figures to the point where they may even engage in behaviors they would usually not such as hurting others.
What was the Milgram study?