Memory
A temporary storage system that processes incoming sensory memory.
What is, short-term memory?
State marked by relatively low levels of physical activity and reduced sensory awareness that is distinct from periods of rest that occur during wakefulness.
What is sleep?
This person developed Psychoanalytic theory.
Who is, Freud?
The two major subdivisions of the nervous system.
What is the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system?
The domain of lifespan development that examines learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.
What is cognitive development?
The act of getting information out of memory storage and back to conscious awareness.
What is retrieval?
Clearing the mind in order to achieve a state of relaxed awareness and focus.
What is meditation?
This person developed the Hierarchy of Needs.
Who is Maslow?
Cells in the nervous system that act as interconnected information processors, which are essential for all the tasks of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
The second stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
What is the preoperational stage?
Describes the effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to the creation of false memories.
What is suggestibility?
Physiological dependence, which occurs when a person requires more and more drug to achieve effects that were previously experienced at a lower dose.
What is tolerance?
This person is often considered the "father of behaviorism".
Who is Watson?
This connects the brain and spinal cord to the muscles, organs and senses in the periphery of the body.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
Type of parenting style that gives children reasonable demands and consistent limits, expresses warmth and affection, and listens to the child's point of view.
What is, authoritative parenting style?
Continuous storage of information.
What is, long-term memory?
Cocaine and amphetamines are some example of this class of drugs.
What are, stimulants?
This person increased our understanding of operant conditioning.
Who is Skinner?
Surface of the brain that is associated with our highest mental capabilities.
What is the cerebral cortex?
Process proposed by Erikson in which social tasks are mastered as humans move through eight stages of life from infancy to adulthood.
What is psychosocial development?
Memories we consciously try to remember and recall.
What are explicit memories?
A transitional phase of sleep that occurs between wakefulness and sleep, the period during which we drift off to sleep.
What is, stage 1 sleep?
This person developed "client-centered therapy ".
Who was Rogers?
The region of the brain, in the left hemisphere, that is esse5fkr language production.
What is Broca's area?
Type of attachment which is characterized by the child's tendency to show clingy behavior and rejection of the parent when he/she attempts to interact with the child.
What is resistant attachment?