Psychology Test #2 Review

The process of reciting or practicing material over and over.

Encoding of information that requires work, attention, and repetition.

Jean Piaget developed the theory of...

The second stage of memory formation otherwise known as solidifying information.

Which is a type of sensory memory having to do with the short-term memory of sounds?

What are the mental frameworks formed from experiences that help us interpret & store concepts experiences & behaviors?

The inability to remember events that occur after an injury or the onset of a disease.

Which of the following is not a symptom of Alzheimer's disease?

Which brain waves are characteristic of non-REM stage N3 sleep (deep sleep)?

A method devised to help us remember information such as a rhyme or an acronym.

Which brain waves are characteristic of being relaxed and drowsy?

Narcotics or opioids affect the central nervous system in all of the following ways except:

Part of long-term memory based on previous experience such as procedural skills.

Heavy marijuana use in teens is associated with all but which of the following?

A problem with memory that occurs when memories are implanted in our minds.

A sleep disorder characterized by brief pauses in breathing during sleep.

In 1958, Lawrence Kohlberg developed which theory?

The knowledge that we have gained from experience and learning, education, and practice.

The part of memory that holds a limited amount of information for a brief period of time.

This is Piaget's 2 to 7-year-old stage where children use pretend and are egocentric.

The predictable way of how recall steadily declines over time.

An inability to recall events that happened before the onset of disease or injury.

Which bodily process does not vary on a circadian cycle?

The unconscious act of keeping threatening thoughts or feelings out of consciousness.

The law of conservation is learned during which stage?

In which of Piaget's stages are children able to do mental operations but not think abstractly?

Mindfulness training has been shown to improve all but which of the following?

The inability to retrieve some information that once was stored.

Which brain waves are characteristic of being awake and alert?

Which term correctly defines one's thinking to only be centered around your own point of view?

Which of the following is NOT a stage from Kohlberg's theory?

Disruption of memory because previously learned information interferes with new learning.

The attachment style where child shows no distress when left & ignores mother when she returns.

Tendency for children to give inanimate objects characteristics of being alive.

The part of memory required to attend to and solve a problem at hand.

A sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and weakness in facial muscles.

What is the conflict during Erikson's Young Adulthood stage of personality development?

Which brain waves are characteristic of non-REM sleep stage N1 (light sleep)?

Disruption of our memory because new information causes us to forget previous information.

A memory of a real event that was encoded, stored, but not retrieved for a long period.

The prenatal stage when all of the major organs form.

Which of the following drugs is not a stimulant?

Which is not one of the primary areas of identity formation during Erikson's adolescence stage?