Memory
This type of memory temporarily holds information such as a phone number you just heard.
Short term memory
When you attribute a memory to someone/something else, you cannot remember where you heard it
Source amnesia
When a child's temperment is random and they cannot stick to a certain schedule, they are ....
Difficult
Learning that involves associating two stimuli.
Classical conditioning
The variable that is manipulated by the researcher.
Independent variable
The memory technique that involves grouping items into meaningful units.
Chunking
According to cue-dependent forgetting, memory recall improves when it matches the original learning environment.
Context dependent memory
This term refers to the emotional bond between an infant and caregiver.
Attachment
In operant conditioning, a behavior followed by a reward is this...
Reinforced/ reinforcement
This research method involves observing behavior without manipulating variables.
NATURALISTIC OBSERVATION
The process of getting information into memory is called this.
Encoding
This occurs when a person recalls false details about an event after receiving misleading information.
Misinformation effect
When looking at a two glasses filled with water, a baby assumes that the taller glass has more water. The baby lacks....
Conservation
The learning process that occurs by watching others.
Observational learning/ social learning/ social learning theory
This research design follows the same participants over a long period of time.
Longitudinal design
The phenomenon where recall is best for the first and last items in a list
Serial position effect
This type of amnesia involves loss of memories from the past.
Retrograde amnesia
According to Piaget, children in this stage begin to think logically about concrete events.
Concrete operational stage
The gradual weakening of a conditioned response when the UCS is no longer present.
Extinction
This research design studies different age groups at the same point in time.
Cross sectional design
This memory stores facts, definitions, and general knowledge.
Semantic memory
Forgetting that occurs when old memories interfere with new learning.
Proactive interference
According to Erikson, adolescents struggle with development of this in their teen years.
Identity
A reinforcement schedule where reinforcement occurs after a set number of responses.
Fixed ratio schedule
This term refers to the extent to which a study measures what it claims to measure.
Validity