Are the kids alright?
This psychologist contributed to an understanding of childhood cognitive development through the recognition of stages of development
Who is Jean Piaget?
This is learning that has persisted over time and can be retrieved
What is memory?
The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion
What is the Cannon-Bard theory?
Carl Rogers is known for developing this kind of approach to therapy
What is the humanistic approach?
This nervous system is related to our fight or flight response, excites the body and activates when we are under attack
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
In this stage of cognitive development, infants understand the world around them through their senses.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
This is the processing of information into the memory system
What is encoding?
This is the idea that a physical display of emotion can amplify the feeling of that emotion
What is facial feedback?
The type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli
What is systematic desensitization?
This nervous system is comprised of the brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
This is the ability, often gained during the concrete operational stage of development, to recognize that an object exists without seeing it
What is object permanence?
This is the tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list
What is the serial position effect?
This is someone’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
What is the feel-good, do-good phenomenon?
This is a therapy in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening with a genuine, accepting, and empathetic environment.
What is client-centered therapy?
These are bundled axons that form neural cables connecting the CNS with muscles, glands and sense organs
What are nerves?
This is the stage in which children master the concept of conservation.
What is the concrete operational stage?
This is a clear memory of an emotionally significant event
What is flashbulb memory?
This hormone is known as the stress hormone
What is cortisol?
This is surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
What is psychosurgery?
This insulates the axon of some neurons with a layer of fatty tissue which helps to speed impulses
What is the myelin sheath?
This is the ability to infer others’ mental states and develop ideas of their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts.
What is theory of mind?
This is an increase in a synapse’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation, which is believed to be a basis for learning and memory
This is the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself
What is relative deprivation?
This is a therapy in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
These neurons are within the brain and spinal cord, and they communicate internally, intervening between sensory and motor outputs
What are interneurons?