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?