Parts of the Brain
The Environment
I Forget
Setting the Stage
"P"sychology
100

This system includes the amygdala, hypothalamus, and basal ganglia. 

What is the limbic system?

100

This is a culture where personal values are better valued, and it consists of more casual relationships

What is an Individualist Culture?

100

This memory holds information for the shortest amount of time

What is sensory memory?

100

This speech phase includes adding verbs to nouns and usually occurs by 18 months.  

What is two-word telegraphic speech?

100

The unconscious activation of associations in memory

What is priming?


200

It helps the body maintain homeostasis

What is the hypothalamus?

200

People will seek out peers with similar interests and attitudes

What is the Selection Effect?

200

This type of memory includes information about time, frequency, and space and is usually encoded without the person's conciousness.

What is an implicit memory?

200

In Kohlbergs Levels of Moral Development, this stage includes doing things to avoid punishment or gain reward

What is Preconventional?
200

These are the smallest units of sound

What are phonemes?

300

Named after a German neurologist, this area in the brain comprehends language.

What is Wernicke's Area?


300

This is the difference in traits that can be attributed to genes. For example, genes contribute to 79% of the variability in height

What is Heritability?

300

These are memory tricks and aids that use vivid imagery or organizational techniques, like ROYGBIV

What are mnemonics? 

300
This stage by Piaget includes the development of the idea that the volume of an object doesn't change even when in a different container.

What is the Concrete Operational Stage?

300

This phenomenon creates the illusion of movement

What is the Phi Phenomenon?

400

Its association areas process mathematical and spatial reasoning

What is the parietal lobe?


400

This is the process of altering schemas to better fit new information, and the process of adjusting the lens to let in light

What is accommodation?

400

The incorporation of false into one’s memory, as demonstrated by Loftus' Lost in the Mall experiment

What is the Misinformation Effect?

400

This is orderly sequence of biological growth which is uninfluenced by environment

What is Maturation?
400

This psychologist researched how associations are created between two unrelated stimuli.

Who is Pavlov?

500

Signals travel from the olfactory nerve to this part of the brain

What is the temporal lobe?

500

This theory states that children learn gender identity through observing others and imitating and by reward/punishment

What is Bandura's Social Learning theory

500

This is when you can't remember new information and only can remember old information

What is anterograde amnesia?

500

This is the conflict in Erikson's psychosocial development stage from 40-60 years

Generativity vs. stagnation

500

Hypothesized by an English biologist in the 1850s, this term can help explain the mechanisms of human sexuality and the existence of the brainstem in different organisms.

What is natural selection?