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Psychology Exam #2 Test

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Conventional moral development
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Polygenetic characteristics
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Cue dependent
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Explicit vs. implicit memories
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Maintenance rehearsal
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Elizabeth Kubler Ross
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Memory decay
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Myelin sheath
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Encoding failure
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Social smiles
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Parenting styles
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Repression vs, Supression
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Sensory memory
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Attachment styles
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Working memory
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Accomodation vs. Assimilation
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Hippocampus
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Affectional needs
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Piaget's stages
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Left hemisphere
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Language, speech, writing (small details)
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Smiling elicited by social stimuli, such as seeing a parent's face.
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Fading or weakening of memories
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Personal traits or physical properties that are influenced by many genes working in combination.
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Fatty layer coating some axons
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Stimuli associated memory-a cue is needed to retrieve the memory
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Failure to store sufficient information to form a useful memory.
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Another name for short-term memory, especially as it is used for thinking and problem solving.
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A part of the limbic system associated with strong memories. (Think of a hippo being on campus)
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Silently repeating or mentally reviewing information to hold it in short-term memory.
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Secure-stable and positive emotional bond. Avoidant-anxious emotional bond marked by a tendency to avoid reunion with a parent or caregiver. Ambivalent-anxious emotional bond marked by both a desire to be with a parent and some resistance to reunite.
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Modification of existing mental patterns to fit new demands (mental schemes are changed to accommodate new information) vs. Application of existing mental patterns to new situations (new situation assimilated to existing mental schemes)
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Emotional needs for love and attention
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Unconsciously pushing unwanted memories out of awareness. vs. Conscious effort to put something out of mind or keep it from awareness.
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The first, normally unconscious, stage of memory, which holds an exact record of incoming information for a few seconds or less.
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Sensorimotor(0-2)sensory input and motor rspns become coordinated Preoperational(2-7)begin to use language and think symbolically Concrete operational(7-11)Concepts of time, space, volume, numbers Formal operational(11-up)abstract, theoretical, hypothe
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Moral thinking based on a desire to please others or to follow accepted rules or values.
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Thanatologist-specialist who studies emotional and behavioral reactions to death and dying.
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Authoritarian-enforce rigid rules and demand strict obedience to authority. Overly permissive-give little guidance, allow too much freedom, or do not require child to take responsibility. Authoritative-firm and consistent guidance with love/affection.
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Memory that a person is aware of having; consciously retrieved. vs. Memory that a person does know exists; retrieved unconsciously.
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Active mental system for receiving, encoding, storing, organizing, altering, and retrieving information.
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A network within the medulla and brainstem; associated with attention, alertness, and some reflexes.
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The structure that connects the brain with the spinal cord and controls vital life functions.
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Could be from disuse
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Memory influenced by one's physical state at the time of learning and at the time or retrieval. Improved memory occurs when the two states match.
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Mental ability to change the shape or form of a substance (such as clay or water) and perceive it as the volume staying the same.
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Process of adjusting instruction so that it is responsive to a beginner's behavior and supports the beginner's efforts to understand a problem or gain a mental skill.
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A term usually applied to the side of a person's brain that produces language.
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Portion of the cerebral cortex in which vision registers in the brain.
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Area of the cortex that include the sites in which body sensations register.

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