Row 1
You walk into the produce section of the grocery store, and your eyes catch the light waves reflecting off the display of apples. The photoreceptors in your eyes detect this light and turn it into electrical signals.
Sensation (taking in the information)
You're sitting in a quiet classroom while someone slowly turns up the volume of a speaker. At first, you can't hear anything, but eventually, it becomes just loud enough that you can hear the faint tone.
Absolute Threshold
You are lying in bed reading your psychology textbook on your laptop. Your eyes grow heavy, thoughts start to wander, then your body suddenly twitches violently, waking you right back up for a second.
Stage 1
Bonus: Hypnagogic Hallucinations
A child becomes extremely distressed when their caregiver leaves. When the caregiver returns, the child wants to be held but simultaneously resists being comforted.
Ambivalent/anxious attachment style
You're napping in one of the library study rooms. If you were hooked up to a sleep monitor, your brain activity would show a steady, relaxed rhythm that is suddenly interrupted by a rapid, tightly packed burst of sharp electrical spikes.
Stage 2
Bonus: Sleep Spindles
A 3-year-old watches their mother put a toy inside a box. The mother leaves and the child correctly remembers that the toy still exists even though they cant see it.
What concept of Piaget did the child complete?
Object Permanence
Bonus: sensorimotor stage
You're completely focused on a conversation when someone across the room says your name. Even though you weren't consciously listening to that conversation, you immediately notice your name.
What's the phenomenon?
Cocktail Party Effect
Your brain receives the electrical signals, organizes the patterns of light and interprets them so you recognize you are looking at a pile of crisp, red apples.
Perception (making it make sense)
Before an exam, your professor is reading you an article that repeatedly uses the words: Doctor, Nurse, Hospital, and Medicine. Later on, you recognize the word "patient" really quickly.
Priming
You walk into a bakery and smell all the different types of pastries being made. After about 10 minutes of perusing the counter to decide what you want, you don't smell the pastries anymore, even though they are right in front of you.
Sensory Adaptation
As a student you see the math equation 27x14 written on the board. Which conscious system is being used?
System 2 (analytical and slow, deliberate effort)
A 4-year-old believes that everyone else sees and understands the world exactly as they do and has a hard time understanding another person's perspective.
According to Piaget, what stage and concept is happening?
Egocentrism in the Preoperational phase
A person is holding a 10-pound weight. Their friend gradually adds more weight, but they don't notice a difference until the weight reaches 11 pounds. Later on, the person is now holding a 50-pound weight, and this time, they don't notice a difference until the weight reaches approximately 55 pounds.
Weber's Law.
A teenage says "I don't know if I want to be a doctor anymore. Maybe I want to be an artist. Or a teacher. I just don't know.
Who's theory and what is it?
Erickson's Identity vs. Role confusion
You're driving home when a child suddenly runs into the street. You immediately slam on the breaks without calculating the child's distance, your reaction time, or the speed of the car.
System 1 (rapid, automatic processing)
You look at a logo that consists of several incomplete lines that, when viewed together, form a complete shape. Even though portions of the shapes are missing, you automatically perceive it as a whole.
Closure
You are driving your normal route home to visit your family for the weekend. Halfway through your trip, you reach a full roadblock on your normal route, and your GPS reroutes you on a route you are not at all familiar with.
Bottom up processing.
Someone takes a substance that dramatically alters their perception, causing them to see things that aren't there.
What category of psychoactive drug does this describe?
Hallucinogen
A toddler barely reacts when his mom leaves the room. When she returns, the toddler doesn't seek them out much and seems relatively indifferent.
Avoidant Attachment Style
A 5-year-old spends hours creating imaginary games and wants to plan activities for the entire family to play. When adults criticize their ideas, they become worried they have done something wrong.
Whose theory best describes what is happening?
Erickson's Initiative vs. Guilt