Physical growth and development of the body, especially the brain and nervous system.
What is maturation?
100
Vision you see out of the sides of your eyes.
What is peripheral vision?
100
Any event which increases the probability that a response will occur again.
What is reinforcement?
100
The set of rules for making sounds into words and words into sentences.
What is grammar?
200
This is the type of experiment in which neither the tester nor the subject knows which subjects are receiving drugs and which are receiving no drugs.
What is a double-blind experiment?
200
The rapid and early learning of permanent behavior patterns.
What is imprinting?
200
Information surrounding a stimulus.
What is context?
200
The type of learning that involves repetition and memorization.
What is rote learning?
200
Occurs when incoming information is changed into a usable form.
What is encoding?
300
This means that a test subject has an equal chance of being a member either of the experimental group or the control group.
What is random assignment?
300
This is another word for "smell," as in "sense of smell."
What is olfactory?
300
Learned desires for attention and approval from other people.
What are social reinforcers?
300
Type of thinking in which many possibilities are developed from one starting point.
What is divergent thinking?
400
This refers to results that would occur very rarely by chance alone.
A type of bias in which respondents give answers that are polite and socially acceptable.
What is courtesy bias?
400
A lack of or withholding of normal stimulation, nutrition, comfort or love.
What is deprivation?
400
Three dimensional vision.
What is stereoscopic vision?
400
The gradual molding of responses to desired patterns.
What is shaping?
400
Basic speech sounds.
What is phonemes?
500
This refers to results that would occur very rarely by chance alone.
What is statistical significance?
500
TYpe of infants who have formed an anxious emotional bond.
What is insecure-avoidant?
500
Another word for relative motion, like when you move your head and your physical surroundings seem to move a great distance.
What is motion parallax?
500
Occurs when we observe another person's emotional reactions to a stimulus and then learn how to respond to it ourselves.
What is vicarious classical conditioning?
500
The name for the effect that occurs when the bodily state that exists during learning is a strong cue for later memory.