Development
A child in this stage of Paiget's stages of cognitive development is most likely to lack object permanence.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
The main memory process that allows for the ability to form new movies as information (i.e. translating information from class into new memories)
What is encoding?
Bill hates to clean up after dinner. One night, he volunteers to bathe the dog before cleaning up. When he finishes with the dog and returns to the kitchen, his wife has cleaned everything up for him. Bill's wife has __________ him for bathing the dog.
What is negative reinforcement?
Daniel is studying a group of children over the next 20 years. He is conducting this kind of study.
What is a longitudinal study?
Sarah has developed a sucking schema as a way of understanding objects around her. Sarah’s behavior of sucking on a harmonica to make music is an example of this.
What is assimilation?
When you mentally picture the road between your house and school, you are relying on the component of
working memory that Baddeley referred to as this.
what is the visual spatial sketchpad?
Adding something desirable in order to decrease a behavior.
What is positive punishment?
For several weeks, Allen had to clean the men’s restroom at the restaurant where he worked. The task always made him nauseated. He has since gone on to better things, but still cannot walk by the door to a men’s restroom without becoming slightly queasy. For Allen, the door to the men’s room has become a(n) _____.
What is a conditioned stimulus?
16-year old Brenda’s parents are political conservatives, while she identifies more with liberal political views. When asked her political orientation, Brenda seems uncertain and does not respond. Brenda is dealing with the _____ crisis.
What is identity versus role confusion?
When Clara recalled letters from a list after 60 seconds had passed, she mistakenly recalled an “E” instead of a “P,” and a “C” instead of a “T.” Her errors indicate that the letters had been encoded ____.
What is phonemically?
______ leads to behaviors that will persist longer than behavior learned through continuous reinforcement.
What is partial reinforcement?
Talbot looked up the phone number for a local restaurant and silently repeated it to himself as he dialed to make reservations. He used this method to temporarily store the restaurant's phone number in his short-term memory.
What is rehearsal?
A child with this attachment type is most likely to have a temper tantrum when their father leaves the room.
What is insecure-anxious/ambivalent attachment?
Amad is watching fireflies at night. Firefly "trails" (or lights) are an example of this type of memory.
Iconic memory
Julie is expected to cut the lawn weekly. Her parents only give her money once in a while after she cuts the lawn. Julie is being conditioned using a _____ schedule of reinforcement.
Partial
Ken’s mouth waters every time he hears the ice cream truck’s familiar song in the distance. One day, a slightly different song is heard in the distance and Ken’s mouth waters. Ken’s behavior illustrates this concept.
What is stimulus generalization?
Erikson would argue that this type of parent is likely to inhibit a child's autonomy and initiative.
What is authoritarian?
A lawyer want to be sure that the jury remembers one significant fact, so he leaves it until last in his closing review. The lawyer is relying on this effect.
What is the recency effect?
Whenever five-year-old Claire goes to the dentist, she becomes anxious and cries. Since she was not afraid of the dentist on her first visit, her fear was a learned behavior. This is the UCS.
The pain from getting her teeth claim.
Camille remembered the meaning of the word “ilk” as being a type or kind of people. She used this of the type of memory to recall this definition.
What is semantic memory?