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- 5. Piaget’s process in which new information changes a schema
- 10. the tendency of IQ scores to increase over generations
- 11. Piaget’s stage of development that begins around age 12 during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts
- 13. most important factors of personality
- 15. a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus
- 16. A psychiatric treatment in which induced seizures and electrical stimulation are used
- 18. a type of depth cue that depends on the use of two eyes
- 20. a binocular depth cue that measures the inward rotation of the eyes
- 23. a heuristic in which one estimates the likelihood of an event based off of their accessibility in their memory
- 26. in developmental psychology, a stage during which the nervous system is especially sensitive to certain stimuli
- 30. the unofficial norms of a group or culture about how one should express themselves
- 31. a way of thinking that requires the ability to consider many different answers and new ideas
- 32. a psychologist who developed a theory of psychosocial development
- 34. a defense mechanism in which undesirable feelings are shifted to a more acceptable object or person
- 36. an external reward that drives a behavior
- 38. thick band of neural fibers that separate the brain hemispheres
- 39. the system that controls involuntary movements of glands and internal organs
- 43. impulse that travels down axon
- 44. the minimum stimulus difference that can be detected 50% of the time
- 46. neurons, usual motor, that carry instructions form the central nervous system to the muscles and glands
- 48. In Jung’s theory, a common image that is shared in all humans as part of the species’ universal experience
- 49. break during which subsequent action potentials cannot occur
Down
- 1. social psychologist who theorized about reciprocal determinism and performed the Bobo doll experiments
- 2. section of the brain that controls the physical production of speech
- 3. Motivation theory that posits that human behavior is motivated by the need to maintain an optimal level of stimulation
- 4. phenomenon of visual perception in which a small, still light appears to a person to be moving in a dark room.
- 6. associating an unrelated stimulus with a learned stimulus, expecting a significant event
- 7. humans’ need to build relationships and feel as if they are a part of a group
- 8. procedures that guarantee a solution to a problem
- 9. Piaget’s stage of development in which children between the ages of 7-11 are able to think logically about concrete events
- 12. psychologist who helped to develop the first IQ test
- 14. minimum stimulation needed to detect a light, sound, pressure, odor, or taste 50% of the time
- 17. a way of thinking needed to provide a single correct answer
- 19. a tendency to seek out evidence for our previously held ideas
- 21. a memory technique in which one thinks about the meaning of the term
- 22. amount of information that can be retained without going to long-term memory
- 24. Piaget’s process in which new information is processed through the lens of an existing schema
- 25. a method of studying whose purpose is to find real-world solutions
- 27. process that carries the action potential along the axon by allowing positively charged sodium ions to flow into each area
- 28. a dream theory that proposes that dreams are created by random changes in neuronal activity during REM sleep
- 29. a theory of motivation in which motivation comes from the need to assuage a physiological need
- 33. constant stimulation results in diminished sensitivity
- 35. diminished response given when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus
- 37. a way that humans perceive depth in which farther away objects appear blurred
- 40. according to Freud, a semi-conscious agent that goes by the reality principle
- 41. Neo-Freudian psychologist who theorized that that behavior is driven by efforts to conquer childhood inferiority complex
- 42. a way of memorizing in which items are organized into manageable units
- 45. theorized that language is an innate human gift
- 47. psychologist who discovered that there are universal facial expressions