Psych Midterm Review

part of the neuron the recieves the message

this is people's ideas about their own and others' mental states

clinging to beliefs and ignoring evidence that proves otherwise

after buying 4 meals at a restaurant, you get the 5th free. what type of reinforcement schedule

Words, events, places, and emotions that triggerour memory of the past are called what?

The Harlows' studies of attachment in monkeys showed that

after about 8 months of age, infants show distress when face with a new baby sitter. this is

the one-word stage of speech development is usually reached at about

from the 1920s to the 1960s, the primary focus of psychology was on... 

Phineas Gage's injury illustrated that damage to the frontal lobe can alter our ____

psychological terms for taking info in, retaining it, and later getting it back out are 

Which is the correct sequence of stages in Piaget's theory of cognitive development?

tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and ignore it if it doesn't

field of psychology that emphasized the individual's potential for personal growth

To correctly string words together to form sentences is called?

his famous Bobo doll experiment demonstrated that children learn by observing others behavior

chemical messengers made by the endocrine glands that travel through the bloodstream

monkeys raised w/ fake mothers suggest emotional bonds are mainly from what type ofinteraction

part of the neuron that passes message from the cell body to the terminal branches

During which stage of cognitive development do children begin to show object permanence?

in an experiment, this is the variable whose effect is being studied

What did Noam Chomsky attributed children's ability to pick up language so readily to?

Which type of memory has an essentially unlimited capacity?

Which is the correct order of stages of prenatal development?

Which phrase best describes a “Skinner Box”?

the central nervous system is made up of 

nervous system that conects the central nervous system to the rest of the body

hippocampus damage usually won't impact learning new skills .This is an example of

which is the best way to separate the effects of genes and environment in research is to study

the body's chemical communication system

the process of forming mental images as we encode information in memory is called

Noam Chomsky argued that all languages share a __

Skimming complex material yields little long-term retention because it inhibits 

neurons that carry outgoing info from the central nervous system to muscles & glands

level of stimulation needed to trigger a neural response

conservation is learned by children during this stage

rehearsal, the conscious repetition of information you want to remember , is part of 

Animals can learns associations between events by which process?

somaticpart of the peripheral nervous system that control glands & muscles of internal organs

Which lobe of the brain lags behind other lobes during adolescence?

Newborns have been observed to show the greatest visual interest in type of image?

children learn many behaviors by imitating others. this type of learning is called

Noam Chomksy suggested that all human languages share a common what?

Research shows adolescents are most likely to beinfluenced by their parents with respect to

the tendency to recall experiences consistent with our current emotions is called 

neurotransmitters linked to pain control and pleasure

parents who use the ___ style of parenting tend to have children with high self esteem

this is a mental image of a layout of one's environment

learning by imitating others' behavior is called __ learning. the researcher known for this is

politicians know how an issue is presented can affect our judgments. they known the power of

junction between axon terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of another

punishment is a controversial way of controlling behavior because

type of learning associated with BF Skinner

Part of cerebral cortex that directs muscle movements involved in speech is known as the what?

the tendency to recall best the first and last items on a list is known as 

when a conditioned stimulus is presented w/out an unconditioned stimulus, __ will soon happen

What was true about a child’s mind according to Piaget?

asked to remember 3 consonants,those in a study counted aloud backward from 100 by 3s toprevent

the cerebellum plays an important role in forming and storing implicit memories created by

this is a framework that organizes and interprets information

if a pregnant woman used artificial sweetners that harm the fetus, what would they sweetner be

Which of Kohlbergs levels of morality is basedon avoiding punishment & gaining concrete rewards

a neural basis for learning and memory is LTP, which refers to 

gland that regulates blood sugar levels in the body

field of psychology that focused on behavior without reference to mental processes

Damage to what brain area will usuallycause a person to lose the ability to understand language

in fantis is Latin for 

a cognitive map is a 

a major obstacle to problem solving is fixation which is

According to Erikson, teens who suffer role confusion have not yet done what?

According to Piaget, the ability to reason abstractly is characteristic of the stage of

research method that shows relationships between events and how well one predicts anoth

in Pavlovs exp, the tone was a _ stimulus; after paired w/ meat , it became a(n) _ stimulus

The human genome is best defined as

gland that triggers our fight or flight response

fatty protective layer of a neuron that increase action potential

Piaget held that egocentrism is characteristic of the

nervous system composed of the brain and spinal cord

In preconventional morality, the person

part of the neuron that protects the axon

gland that helps prepare body for sleep by secreting melatonin

part of autonomic nervous system that arouses body and prepares it for action

learning is defined as a relatively permanent behavior change due to

By avoiding back-to-back study times for Spanish & French vocab you can minimize what problem?

learning is best defined as 

in Piaget's theory, this is the  child's difficulty in taking another's point of view

gland that affects metabolism

The ability to comprehend speech is what type of language?

Whose stage theory of moral development was based on how people reasoned about ethical dilemmas

process in which the sending neuron absorbs excess neurotransmitters left in the synaptic gap

the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters sounds

implicit or unconscious memories are formed and stored in the 

across the world, babies first words are often

Watson and Rayner's study of Little Albert demonstrated what about specific fears?

sometimes we puzzle over a problem and then suddenly the solution comes to us in a flash of ___

stage of sleep where dreaming occurs

endocrine system's control gland, secretes growth hormones

The hippocampus plays a critical role in which process?

memories of facts and personal events that can consciously be retrieved are 

The theorist who suggested that securely attached children develop an attitude of basic trust i

memory test that most effectively reveals Joe(55) still remembers many  high school classmates?

the ability to think abstractly is called __ intelligence. This ability generally __ with age.

Our inability to remember info presented in the seconds before we fall asleep is likely due to 

neurotransmitter that enables learning and memory

our short term memory capacity is about...