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moodster05 Psychology English 24 cards

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  1. 1Organized body of ideasSchema
  2. 2Cognitive equalibriumAbility to understand your surroundings
  3. 3Cognitive disequilibriumno longer able to explain something that's happened
  4. 4Adaptationmoving from disequilibrium to equilibrium
  5. 5Assimilationincorporating additional information into an existing schema without changing it
  6. 6Accommodationchanging an existing schema to accommodate for new information
  7. 7Sensori-motor (age and characteristics)Age 0-2
    Motor abilities
    Object permanence
    Representational thought
  8. 8Preoperational (age and characteristics)Age 2-7
    Language
    Centration
    Egocentric
    Theory of Mind (age 3.5-4.5)
  9. 9Concrete Operations (age and characteristics)Age 7-12
    Conservation
  10. 10Formal Operations (age and characteristics)Age 12+
    Abstract thought
    Think about possible outcomes
  11. 11Between ages 6-12 the brains forms new connectionsProliferation
  12. 12During adolescence the brain begins to sever unused interneural connectionsPruning
  13. 13Nucleus AccumbensDirects motivation to seek rewards
  14. 14Adolescents have tons of this floating aroundDopamine
  15. 15Hormone that mediates sexual gratification and is inhibited by dopamineProlactin
  16. 16Ability to reason speedily Declines with ageFluid Intelligence
  17. 17Accumulated knowledge and skills Stays in tact with ageCrystalline Intelligence
  18. 18Anatomical blind spotWhere the optic nerve meets the eye
  19. 19HabituationThe decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated exposure to it
  20. 20Monocular Depth CuesLinear perspective
    interposition
    relative size
    texture gradient
    shadowing
  21. 21Binocular Depth CuesRetinal disparity
    Convergence
  22. 22Emotional and physiological responsesClassical conditioning
  23. 23Used to maintain information for a short time and for acoustic rehearsalPhonological loop
  24. 24Visuospatial sketchpadused for maintaining and processing images

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