Learning Cognition Neuroscience People of Psychology Smorgasbord
100
What is learning?
A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience.
100
What is the 3-box model?
The memory model including encoding, storage, and retrieval.
100
What is the endocrine system?
The body's slow chemical communication system.
100
What is the id, ego, and superego?
Sigmund Freud's 3 parts of personality.
100
What is projection?
Taking negative feelings and projecting them onto another person, thing, or situation.
200
What is latent learning?
Learning that becomes obvious only once a reward is given for it.
200
What is an algorithm?
Step by step procedure to guarantee a solution.
200
What are endorphins?
The body's natural pain killer.
200
Who is Carl Jung?
Believed unconscious had two parts: personal and collective.
200
What is heritability?
The measure of the percentage of the traits that is inherited.
300
Who is John Watson?
Father of behaviorism and creator of Baby Albert experiment.
300
What are the stages of language acquisition?
Holographic stage, one-word stage, and telegraphic stage.
300
What is the thyroid gland?
DAILY DOUBLE: Gland that regulates metabolism.
300
Who is Hippocrates?
Came up with first biotheory of personality, and that it is determined by humors.
300
What are the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operation, and formal operation stages?
Piaget's stages of Cognitive Development.
400
What is the Garcia Effect?
DAILY DOUBLE: Humans and animals are biologically prepared to make certain connections more easily than others.
400
Who is Charles Spearman?
Person that came up with Factor analysis and the g factor.
400
What is aphasia?
Language disturbance.
400
Who is Albert Bandura?
"Personality is created by the interactions of a person's traits, environment, and person's behavior."
400
What is the zygote, embryo, and fetus?
Three stages of prenatal development: 40-week gestation.
500
What are neuromodulators?
Part of the brain that reshape neural circuits to help animals adapt.
500
What is psychometrics?
The study of test making.
500
What is the angular gyrus?
Transforms visual info into auditory code.
500
Who is Gordon Alport?
Described people with cardinal, central, and secondary dispositions.
500
What is empiricism?
Knowledge/learning comes from experience, therefore, science should rely on observation and experimentation.






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