Intro To Psych Exam 2

___ is most likely to be criticized for extending the definition of intelligence to a broader range of talents?

If you can effectively identify the best possible answers to the multiple-choice exam, then this is the action of

Storage is to encoding as ____ is to ______

If you want to teach your cat to come on command, it would be ideal to use _____

If you received a paycheck of $400 for an 40 hour work week, the paycheck was a(n)

Ebbinghaus' retention curve best illustrates the value of

Automatic processing and effortful processing are the two types of

Extinction occurs when a ______ is no longer paired with a ______

Which is true of adolescence in contemporary industrialized societies, as compared with previous centuries

decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation

Some believe mice develop mental representations of mazes they have explores. This representation is known as

in classical conditioning, the unlearned, natural occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus

Intrinsic motivation is thought to be an important component of

An increase in a cell's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation; a neural basis for learning and memory

While testing 100s of different spices for a unique Italian dish, my Nonna best illustrates a problem-solving approach

The motor development sequence of rolling over at 3 months, crawl at 6 months, and walk at 12 months is largely due to

Which stage is associated with the individual's sense of morality is tied to personal and societal relationships

The average bathroom reflooring project ended up costing about twice as much as homeowners expect. This illustrates

Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period

Your heart may race when you are taking the exam but not playing Quiz. This best illustrates the adaptive value of

An authoritative parent would

Authoritarian parents are likely to have children who

Modifying long-term memories in light of current knowledge and expectations. This illustrates

A critical period is an optimal period during which

According to Erikson, trust is to infancy as identity is to

If you comprehend if adding 5 apples to 3 apples equals 8, then 5 apples subtracted from 8 equals to 3, this indicates

an innately reinforcing stimulus, such as one that satisfies a biological need

the neural storage of a long-term memory

in operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of reponses

Much of what we sense we never notice. This refers to

Focused thinking that hinders creative problem solving is related to

biological predisposition to learn associations that have survival value

In classical condin., an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with US, triggers a conditioned response

a study in which people of difference ages are compared with one another

What is an agent or factor which causes malformation of an embryo

A conscious memory of the name of the the planet you are on is a(n)

time of natural cessation of menstruation; biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce decline

Prosocial behavior is

According to Haidt's Social Intuitionist Model is mainly focused on ___________

Reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior

A failure to practice important motor skills can result in a loss of agility because unused neural connections ______

The original Atkinson and Shiffrin memory model focused on how we

What is the study and development of systems for improving and assisting the memory

learning that certain events occur together; events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequences

the brain area involved in language comprehension and expression is

The inability to form new memories is

Bandura's experiments indicate that ____ is important in the process of learning

Gardner argued for the existence of ___ intelligences, which he believed are ____

Damage to the _____ can potentially inhibit a person's ability to form new memories

In a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning, may be a word or a part of a word

learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events

Brainstorming sessions that encourages others to suggest new and unusual solutions to a problem are designed to avoid

What is the following closes definition to developmental psychology?

Proactive interference is

Modeling is most closely related to

5 year old Sam mistakenly believes that his father would like to receive a toy car as a Christmas present illustrates

If you believe that language impacts the way human's think, your belief refers to as

Aphasia is usually caused by damage in the ______

Exceptionally clear memories of emotionally significant events are called

Habituation refers to the

You easily remember the telephone reservation number by referring to 1-8-7-7 KARS 4 KIDS. You are using this member aid

After watching so many episodes of the Office, you mistakenly recalled that you have actually visited Dunder Mifflin

Encoding verbal information semantically involves

explicit memory of personally experienced events; one of our two conscious memory systems

A child saying "go car" is a representation of

tendency of learned behavior to gradually revert to biologically predisposed patterns

A person develops an awareness that things continue to exist even when they are not perceived during the ______ stage

in operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses

When taking an multiple-choice question exam, it is assessing your _____ of course material

the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement

learning that occurs bit is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it

Some middle-aged adults describe themselves as ___ simultaneously supporting aging parents and emerging adult children

People are quicker to identify a horse as a mammal than a dolphin as a mammal because a horse closely resembles it

This psychologists designed the strange situation experiment to examine children's attachment differences?

Interpreting new experiences in terms of existing schemas refers to

Mirror neurons are neurons in the brain that

A mental shortcut; fast but not always accurate

What is a zygote?