| A | B |
|---|
| Hypothalamus | Regulates hunger |
| Infant Temperament | Emotional responses/reactivity |
| Arousal theory | Motivation theory that explains our desire for challenges |
| Drive reduction theory | Motivation theory that explains our desire to maintain homeostasis |
| Yerkes-Dodson Law | There's a tipping point for how much arousal is too much (moderate is best) |
| Maslow | Hierarchy of needs/motives |
| James-Lange theory of emotion | Emotion follows our physiological responses |
| Cannon-Bard theory of emotion | Emotion and physiological response happen simultaneously |
| Schacter-Singer | Two factor theory of emotion (arousal and label) |
| Feel good-do good phenomenon | Tendency to do good when you already are happy |
| Adaptation-level phenomenon | Tendency to judge stimuli and situations relative to past experiences |
| Stress appraisal | How we perceive and respond to stressors |
| Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome Model | Alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
| Securely attached infants | Consistent, responsive caregivers |
| Type A personality | Competitive, easily angered, stressed |
| Type B personality | Calm, relaxed |
| Formal Operational (Piaget) | Abstract thought, Mature and moral reasoning |
| Cell differentiation | Begins at the zygote stage |
| Concrete Operational (Piaget) | Conservation, logical thinking and mathematical transformations |
| Conservation | properties of mass, volume and number remain the same despite form changes |
| Positive Emotions | Based in Left Frontal Lobe |
| Accommodation | Learning to adapt current schema to new information |
| Assimilation | Using our existing schema to process new information (all 4 legged animals are puppies!0 |
| Secure attachment response (most common) | Mild anxiety when parent leaves |
| habituation | result of repeated stimulation to which we become used to |
| Norepinephrine and epinephrine | Adrenal gland released- fight or flight |
| Preoperational Stage (Piaget) | Pretend play and egocentrism |
| Post-conventional moral reasoning | Ethical reasoning for right and wrong |
| Pre-conventional reasoning | Doing the right thing to avoid punishment or gain rewards |
| Conventional reasoning | Doing the right thing to gain approval and maintain order |
| Needs and desires that affect our behaviors | Motivation |
| Infantile amnesia | Inability to remember things before age 3 |
| Erikson | Social development |
| Kohlberg | Moral development |
| Piaget | Cognitive development |
| Gender-typing | acquiring roles associated with male or female |
| Survival reflexes | What infants are born with- rooting, Babinski, etc |
| Newborn senses | Sight is the last to fully develop |
| longitudinal study | same people/subjects over time |
| cross sectional study | different people/subjects at the same time |
| Harry Harlow | Wire monkey showed importance of touch |
| sensorimotor (Piaget) | learn object permanence |
| Erikson- Adolescence | Identity vs. Role Confusion |
| Fetal | Longest stage prenatal |
| Erikson- Young adult | intimacy vs. isolation |
| Wear and tear theory of aging | gradual breaking down of cognitive and physical abilities |
| Chunking | memorizing things by lumping them together |
| +/- 7 | The number of items in short term memory storage |
| Tabula Rasa | Blank slate- 100% Nurture |
| Authoritative parenting | best style- |
| Long-term potentiation | Synaptic changes that help form memories |
| Semantic encoding | attach meaning- best way to remember |
| acoustic encoding | just hear |
| amygdala | emotion center (memory) |
| context effects | remember things in the place you learned them |
| Ebbinghaus | Memory "dad" forgetting curve and rehearsal |
| heuristic | simple thinking strategy based on experience or recent information |
| Confrimation bias | inability/unwillingness to see a problem from a different way |
| Metabolic rate | Energy expended, adjusts to food intake |
| Authoritarian parenting | Strict with no explanation |
| egocentrism | preoperational stage- can't see another's perspective |
| (Optimum) Arousal theory | Sometimes we do things for the challenge/thrill |
| Norepinephrine | Levels vary in bi-polar disorder |
| Compulsion | acting on your obsessions |
| Medical Model of disorders | Connected to genetics, brain structure and biochemistry |
| Schizophrenia | Psychotic disorder |
| Double blind procedures | Attempt to eliminate the placebo effect on researchers and subjects |
| Antidepressants | Treatment for OCD |
| ECT | Electroconvulsive Therapy- used for severe depression |
