psych

Question 1

Heuristic

Answer 1

a mental representation you have for something (like a cat or dog) (drew an animal) Based on past experience.

Question 2

Concept

Answer 2

categories (where trash goes) ideas that represent a category of objects.

Question 3

Formal Concepts

Answer 3

Concepts that are identified by specific rule or features

Question 4

Natural Concepts

Answer 4

Concepts that people form as a result from an experience

Question 5

What Causes Amnesia

Answer 5

head and brain injuries, certain drugs, alcohol, traumatic events, or conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Question 6

Prototype

Answer 6

a concept that closely matches the defining
characteristics of that concept(Robiin in a bird species)

Question 7

Schemas

Answer 7

act of throwing out the trash
For example, when a child is young, they may develop a schema for a dog. They know a dog walks on four legs, is hairy, and has a tail. When the child goes to the zoo for the first time and sees a tiger, they may initially think the tiger is a dog as well

Question 8

Scripts

Answer 8

a kind of schema that involves a familiar sequence of
activities

Question 9

Insight

Answer 9

Sudden perception on how to solve a problem

Question 10

Functional Fixedness

Answer 10

a block to problem solving that
comes from thinking about objects only in terms of their
typical functions

Question 11

Mental set

Answer 11

the tendency for people to persist in using
problem-solving patterns that have worked for them in the
past

Question 12

Confirmation Bias

Answer 12

the tendency to search for evidence
that fits one’s beliefs while ignoring any evidence that
does not fit those beliefs

Question 13

What is singers theory (written)

Answer 13

how your body will react in a time of arousal or stimulus (dog attacks you, your body will send adrenaline

Question 14

Spearman’s Theory

Answer 14

Test for general Intelligence

Question 15

Latent Learning

Answer 15

(incidental Learning) no reason why or explanation it just happens EX(One morning Ravi’s dad has to leave early for a meeting, so he can’t drive Ravi to school. Instead, Ravi follows the same route on his bike that his dad would have taken in the car. )

Question 16

Intrinsic Motivation

Answer 16

Doing somethings because you want to do it for yourself ( want to eat right to perform well)

Question 17

Extrinsic Motivation

Answer 17

Doing things because of a external factor ( good Grades because of parents )

Question 18

what are the 4 things babies do

Answer 18

Latching, Grasping, Sucking, Feeting

Question 19

Latching (baby)

Answer 19

give baby something and it will hold on to it (Breast feeding)

Question 20

Grasping(baby)

Answer 20

(if you drop a baby it will grasp in the air to grab onto something

Question 21

Sucking(baby)

Answer 21

Putting everything in a babies mouth helps them learn what a thing is by the roof of their mouth

Question 22

Feeting/stepping (baby)

Answer 22

happens when you hold the baby upright with his/her feet touching a flat surface.

Question 23

Systematic Processing (written)

Answer 23

a step by step approach used to study behavior to find a solution. (a step by step experiment)

Question 24

Divergent thinkers

Answer 24

multiple solutions to the same problem (more creative)(higher IQ)

Question 25

Pi(age)t

Answer 25

(1)(0-2 years) sensorimotor intelligence, (2) (3-5 years) pre-operational thinking, (3) concrete operational thinking(6-9 years), and (4) formal operational thinking(12+ years)-Complex thinking.

Question 26

Alfred Binet

Answer 26

intelligence(test) can be defined by the comparison of the performance of children at the same idea

Question 27

Homestasis

Answer 27

psychological and physiological balance achieved when one’s needs and desires have been met.