Personality
A stable pattern of behavior, feelings, and thoughts.
What is personality?
A form of conditioning where a novel stimulus is presented before a reflexive, unconditioned response to produce a conditioned response in reaction to the stimulus.
What is classical conditioning?
Minimizing Harm, Informed Consent, and Anonymity
What are the APA Ethical Guidelines?
The brain cortex associated with personality and logical reasoning.
A way of describing development as a process where milestones are reached followed by periods of time when little development occurs.
What is a discontinuous process?
A belief that one's actions directly influence success or failure.
What is internal locus of control?
A form of conditioning in which reinforcements and punishments are presented immediately after a behavior to increase or decrease the frequency of the behavior.
What is operant conditioning?
Research that does not apply to a large population of people.
What is poor generalizability?
The part of the nerve that receives chemical impulses from other nerves.
What are dendrites?
Objects exist even when you cannot see them. A Piagetian developmental milestones.
What is object permanence?
The redirection of aggressive impulses towards a safer target.
What is displacement?
When a behavior stops occurring as a result of learning.
What is extinction?
What is naturalistic observation?
The division of the nervous system that controls breathing and other non-voluntary body functions.
What is the autonomic nervous system (ANS)?
An Eriksonian stage when children are learning how to do things (like potty training) that build their independence from their parents.
Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt
When different forms of the same test produce similar results.
What is parallel form reliability?
The ability to react differently to similar stimuli. For example, having a fear reaction to wolves but not husky dogs.
What is stimulus discrimination?
The first step of any scientific research process.
What is an empirical question?
The tendency of specific brain function to occur in the right or the left hemisphere of the brain.
What is lateralization?
Parents that explain rules and emotionally support their children, but have high expectations.
What are authoritative parents?
The ability to wait for a larger reinforcer when presented with a lesser reinforcer.
What is delay of gratification?
The stages of observational learning.
What are attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation?
A sampling method where every member of a population has an equal chance of being selected for an experimental group.
What is random sampling?
The neurotransmitter associated with the fight or flight response.
What is norepinephrine?
A Piagetian stage where children are learning how to walk and use their hands.
What is the sensorimotor stage?