Stats: Developmental Psych Study Guide

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The learning stage during which a conditioned response comes to be elicited by the conditioned stimulus.	Aquisition	100%
the enduring social-emotional relationship between a child and parent or caregiver.	Attachment	100%
Parenting style where the parent is cold and rejecting; frequently degrades the child	Authoritarian	100%
Parenting style where Parent is warm, attentive and sensitive to child’s needs and interests	Authoritative	100%
Forms of learning which can be described in terms of stimuli and responses.	Behavioural Learning	100%
(7 to 11 years): child develops the abilities of irreversibility, conservation and mental operations. They can think logically about concrete events.	Concrete operational stage	100%
response elicited by a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with the unconditioned stimulus.	Conditioned Response	100%
the originally neutral stimulus that gains the power to cause the response.	Conditioned Stimulus	100%
learning by associations	Conditioning	100%
Internalize the standards of adult role models and act to maintain social order and fit in group	Conventional morality	100%
Periods of life initiated by distinct transitions in physical or psychological functioning.	developmental stages	100%
What was the three word summary of the Cognitive Theory of Development	Discontinuous stage model	100%
The ability to distinguish between two similar signals stimulus.	Discrimination	100%
Psychologist who saw human development as a sequence of psychosocial stages, defined by common problems that emerge throughout life.	Erickson	100%
Last stage: people begin to think about issues like being more accepted by peers, and abstract issues like love, fairness and our reason for existence.	Formal operational Stage	100%
biological traits and social characteristics.	Gender	100%
Similar stimuli can create a conditioned response.	Generalization	100%
Learning not to respond to the repeated presentation of a stimulus.	Habituation	100%
when a powerful attraction occurs between infants and the first moving object or individual they spend time with.	Imprinting	100%
1 month- 18/24 months	Infancy	100%
This Psychologist has a famous theory on Morals	Kohlberg	100%
Lasting change in behavior or mental process as the result of an experience.	Learning	100%
A learned preference for stimuli to which we have been previously exposed.	Mere Exposure Effect	100%
Birth- one month	neonatal	100%
Any stimulus that produces no conditioned response prior to learning.	Neutral Stimulus	100%
The knowledge that objects exist independently of one’s own actions or awareness.	Object Permanence	100%
Parenting style where the parent is warm but may spoil the child	Permissive	100%
Who created the Cognitive Theory of Development	Piaget	100%
Individual Judgement based on self-chosen principles, and moral reasoning is based on individual rights and justice	Post-conventional morality	100%
Moral code is shaped by the standards of adults and the consequences of following or breaking their rules	Pre-conventional morality	100%
Development period before birth	Prenatal	100%
(2 to 6/7 years of age): A stage marked by well-developed mental representation and the use of language.	Preoperational	100%
Mental structures that guide thinking	Schemas	100%
First Pillar of the Cognitive Theory of Development	Schemas	100%
First stage Piaget's theory (Birth to age 2): Children mostly give reflexive responses with very little thinking involved.	Sensorimotor	100%
biological traits.	Sex	100%
The response after a rest period of an extinguished conditioned response.	Spontaneous Recovery	100%
Fear of strangers	Stranger Anxiety	100%
close coordination between the gazing, vocalizing, touching and smiling of mothers and infant	Synchronicity	100%
substances from the environment that can damage the developing baby.	Teratogens	100%
The ability to infer (understand) other’s mental states, and know they may be different than our own.	Theory of Mind	100%
First stage 0-12 months	Trust vs Mistrust	100%
A response resulting from an unconditioned stimulus without prior learning.	Unconditioned Response	100%
A stimulus that automatically-without conditioning or learning- provokes a reflexive response.	Unconditioned Stimulus	100%
Parenting style where the parent is emotionally detached, withdrawn and inattentive	Uninvolved	100%
Who said: the emphasis on how the child’s mind grows through interaction with the social environment.	Vygotsky	100%
The level of how able you are to solve problems without the help of adults	Zone of Proximal Development	100%
Second Pillar of the Cognitive Theory of Development	Assimilation and accommodation	67%
changes in mental processes, rather than as changes in behavior alone	Cognitive learning	67%
A mental representation of a place.	Cognitive Map	67%
A reinforcement schedule under which all correct responses are reinforced	Continuous Reinforcement	67%
Late adulthood	Ego-Identity vs Despair	67%
The diminishing (or lessening) of a learned response, when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus.	Extinction	67%
A schedule that a rewards a learner only for the first correct response after some defined period of time.	Fixed interval schedule	67%
A type of reinforcement schedule by which some, but not all, correct responses are reinforced.	Intermittent Reinforcement	67%
rewards subjects after a certain time interval.	Interval schedule	67%
Learning that occurs but is not apparent until the learner has an incentive to demonstrate it.	Latent Learning	67%
The idea that responses that produced desirable results would be learned, or “stamped” into the organism.	Law of Effect	67%
The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.	Learned Helplessness	67%
Frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or observing another doing so.	Mirror Neurons	67%
Process of observing and imitating a specific behavior.	Modeling	67%
When a desirable event ends or is taken away after a behavior.	Negative punishment	67%
The removal of an unpleasant stimulus that increases the probability of that response happening again.	Negative Reinforcement	67%
Learning in which new responses are acquired after other’s behavior and the consequences of their behavior are observed.	Observational Learning	67%
A form of learning in which the probability of a response is changed by its consequences.	Operant Conditioning	67%
An undesirable event that follows a behavior: washing your mouth out with soap after cursing	Positive punishment	67%
A stimulus presented after a response that increases the probability of that response happening again	Positive Reinforcement	67%
something that is naturally reinforcing: food, warmth, water, pleasure	Primary Reinforcement	67%
eduction in emotional arousal and distress when they subsequently observe violent	Psychic Numbing	67%
an adverse/disliked stimulus which occurs after a behavior, and decreases the probability it will occur again.	Punishment	67%
rewards subjects after a certain number of responses.	Ratio Schedule	67%
________ is a condition in which the presentation or removal of a stimulus, that occurs after a response (behavior), strengthens that response or makes it more likely to happen again in the future.	Reinforcer	67%
something you have learned is a reward because it is paired with a primary reinforcement in the long run:	Secondary Reinforcement	67%
A technique where new behavior is produced by reinforcing responses that are similar to the desired response.	Shaping	67%
Third Pillar of the Cognitive Theory of Development	Stages of cognitive development	67%
1-3 years	Autonomy vs self-doubt	33%
6-puberty	competence vs inferiority	33%
A reinforcement schedule that rewards a response only after a defined number of correct answers.	Fixed ratio schedule	33%
Middle Adulthood	Generativity vs Stagnation	33%
Adolescence	Identity vs Role Confusion	33%
3-6 years	initiative vs guilt	33%
Early Adulthood	Intimacy vs Isolation	33%

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