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DevelopmentWhat is maturation?What are some examples of physical abilities controlled by maturation?How is memory early in life influenced by maturation?What three cognitive skills are controlled by maturation, according to Piaget?What are the stages of cognitive maturation, and how do they match up with those three cognitive skills,according to Piaget?What is object permanence, and when does it develop?What does it mean that young children are “egocentric”?What is a schema?What are assimilation and accommodation, and what do they have to do with schemas?What does current psychological research indicate about Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?What are the secondary sex characteristics that develop in adolescence?What is myelination, and what does it have to do with cognition in adolescence?Roughly what ages correspond to “early” and “middle” adulthood, and what physical and cognitive changes happen then?Roughly what ages correspond to “late” adulthood, and what physical and cognitive changes happen then?What are Erikson’s 8 stages of social development, and what ages define each stage?What “social” skills does a newborn infant have?Define secure attachment and the two types of insecure attachment.What factors lead to secure attachment?What is the effect of attachment on outcomes across the life span?When does self-awareness typically develop?Define the three parenting styles discussed in class in terms of strictness and responsiveness.What are individualism and collectivism, and what do they have to do with parenting styles?Name one factor that predicts a successful, long-lasting marriage.Why are older adults as happy or happier than younger adults, despite decline in several aspects of their lives?Sensation and PerceptionDefine sensation and perception.What are bottom-up and top-down processing?In what ways is sensation limited?What are rods and cones, and what do they do?What is the biological pathway, from start to finish, by which visual information enters the eye and is processed by the brain?What are the two ways by which color is processed in the brain?What are feature detectors, and what kinds of things do they detect?What’s the benefit of attention in processing sensory data?What is the cocktail party effect?What is inattentional blindness, and what implications does it have for “multitasking”?What four properties of the visual world does the brain have to construct?What four visual cues does your brain use to determine what is a form?What are the two binocular depth cues, and how do they allow the brain to represent the world in 3D?What are some examples of monocular depth cues?What are two cues your brain uses to represent motion?What are context effects and schema effects on perception?’LearningDefine learning.What is classical conditioning? Explain the process of classical conditioning using the terms unconditioned stimulus (UCS), unconditioned response (UCR), conditioned stimulus (CS), and conditioned response (CR).What specifically did Pavlov condition in his experiments with dogs (use the terms listed above)?What specifically did Watson condition in his experiments with Little Albert (use the terms listed above)?How is classical conditioning used in psychotherapy?How is classical conditioning used in advertising?What is the Law of Effect?What is operant conditioning?What is shaping?Define the terms reinforcement and punishment in terms of operant conditioning.Give examples of positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, and negative punishment.What is extinction?Define reinforcement schedules, and list common types. Which is most resistant to extinction?What is behaviorism?What are three ways cognitive processes can influence conditioning?What are two ways biological forces can influence conditioning?What is social learning?What happened in the Bobo Doll experiments?Give some examples of social learning in everyday


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