Psych Midterm Review

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

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

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

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

type of learning associated with BF Skinner

The ability to comprehend speech is what type of language?

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

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

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

Noam Chomsky argued that all languages share a __

a cognitive map is a 

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

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

The Harlows' studies of attachment in monkeys showed that

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

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

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

In preconventional morality, the person

fatty protective layer of a neuron that increase action potential

stage of sleep where dreaming occurs

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

a major obstacle to problem solving is fixation which is

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

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

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

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

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

part of the neuron the recieves the message

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

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

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

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

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

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

clinging to beliefs and ignoring evidence that proves otherwise

level of stimulation needed to trigger a neural response

gland that affects metabolism

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

Which type of memory has an essentially unlimited capacity?

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

To correctly string words together to form sentences is called?

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

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

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

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

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

Piaget held that egocentrism is characteristic of the

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

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

implicit or unconscious memories are formed and stored in the 

endocrine system's control gland, secretes growth hormones

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

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

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

Animals can learns associations between events by which process?

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

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

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

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

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

neurotransmitter that enables learning and memory

nervous system composed of the brain and spinal cord

conservation is learned by children during this stage

the body's chemical communication system

Which is the correct order of stages of prenatal development?

gland that regulates blood sugar levels in the body

punishment is a controversial way of controlling behavior because

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

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

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

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

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

Which phrase best describes a “Skinner Box”?

gland that helps prepare body for sleep by secreting melatonin

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

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

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

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

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

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

across the world, babies first words are often

in fantis is Latin for 

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

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

The hippocampus plays a critical role in which process?

learning is best defined as 

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

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

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

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

the central nervous system is made up of 

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

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

gland that triggers our fight or flight response

part of the neuron that protects the axon

learning is defined as a relatively permanent behavior change due to

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

neurotransmitters linked to pain control and pleasure

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

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

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

The human genome is best defined as

our short term memory capacity is about...

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

this is a framework that organizes and interprets information