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These are agents that can reach the embryo or fetus and cause harm, the word is greek for “monster maker”
Teratogens
What are the main attachment styles (4)
secure
anxious preoccupied
dismissive avoidant
disorganized
What are some effortful processing techniques that can help you remember info? (4)
chunking - manageable
mnemonics - imagery
spacing effect - distributed
testing effect - retrieval instead of rereading
This is the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity
deindividuation
Johnny is in prison. One day the warden comes to his cell and tells him that if he maintains good behavior for 2 more weeks the warden will move him to a nicer cell. The warden is offering to remove and undesirable stimulus to encourage good behavior. What would behavioral psychologists call this?
Negative reinforcement
What was the finding of Herman Ebbinghaus’s experiment?
Forgetting is initially rapid and eventually levels off
(think ebb sounds like edge and the edge of a cliff is rapid but then it will level off at the bottom)
Mark is developing an app that rewards its users every 10 mins for logging in and pushing a button on their page. As a result, users log in and feverishly push button at 9 mins. This type of reinforcement that occurs after a fixed time period creates a choppy stop-start patterns and is known as ______?
fixed-interval schedule
This type of behavior operates on the environment
operant behavior
Harry Harlow gave baby monkeys two fake mothers in his experiment. A wire monkey that provided food and a soft comfy mother that provided comfort. What did Harlow find? (4 findings)
- The monkeys used the cloth monkey as a secure base to explore world
- the monkeys used cloth monkey as safe haven when anxious
- the importance of touch in development
- the infant monkeys preferred the clothed mother to the wire mother
What are ways to relieve the tension felt from cognitive dissonance
Avoid situations that increase dissonance and bring attitudes into line with actions
What are kohlberg’s levels of morality? (3)
- preconventional morality
- conventional morality
- postconventional morality
This researcher developed “The strange situation classification” to study attachment styles (woman)
Mary Ainsworth
This is the biological predisposition to learn certain associations
preparedness
Piaget proposed these cognitive stages of development (4)
sensorimotor
preoperational
concrete operational
formal operational
Fatima is trying to remember a new song she heard on the radio but she’s having trouble. She can’t get one of Justin Beiber’s songs out of her head. What’s worse is it’s a song that she hasn’t heard in years. What is happening to Fatima’s ability to retrieve the new song from memory?
Proactive interference
B.F. Skinner was known for ____ and his ability to guide behavior to closer and closer approximation of the behavior he desired, also known as _____.
Behaviorism, Shaping
The bystander effect says that if bystanders are present, individuals are less likely to give aid to someone in need
True
The peripheral route of persuasion is fast, uses emotion, and arousing stimuli to gain the listener’s attention and convince the listener of a position (true or false)
True
(think central = logos, peripheral = pathos)
Erikson hypothesized this was a primary developmental task that involved solidifying a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles in adolescence
formation of identity
This theory says that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame
Scapegoat theory
