A response is emitted in the presence of stimulus that is reinforced and not in the presence of unreinforced stimuli

Is a stimulus such as food , water or sex that requires no learning to become pleasurable

Is any stimulus that has required its reinforcing power through, are learned

Refers to the presentation of stimulus that increases the probability that a behavior will occur again

Is a consequence that occurs after a behavior decreases the chance that behavior will occur again

Is a mental disorder that involves easting inedible objects that can result poisoning

Is a stimulus that increases the likelihood that a response will occur again

Presenting aversive stimulus after a response that decreases the chances that response will occur.

Refers to a child refusing to follow directions, obey commands by a parent or caregiver

Removes reinforcing stimuli after an undesirable response. This removal decreases the undesired responses will occur

Refers to removing a reinforcing stimulus after a response

Refers to the reduction of response when it is no longer followed by reinforcer

Refers to a temporary recovery in the rate pf responding

Means that an animal or person emits the same response to somilar stimuli

Is the tendency for some stimulus but not others to elicit a conditioned response

Emphasized the importance of observation, imitation and self-rewàrd in the development and learning of social skills

Four process of social cognitive theory

Ability to retain information through three processes:encoding, storing and retrieving

Are not copies but representation of the world that vary in accuracy and are subject to error and bias

Refers to making mental representations of information so that it can be placed into our memories

The process of placing encoded information into relatively permanent mental storage for later call

The process of getting or recalling information that has been stored for a long period of time

involves identifying previously learned information with the help of external cues

involves retrieving previously learned information with the aid of very few external cues.

Arrangement of nodes in a certain order

Are memory files that contain related information organized around a specific topic or recovery

Says that we restpre related ideas in separate categories or files called nodes

Inability to recall, retrieve, or recognized information that was stored in long term memory

Is a mental process that gides emotionally threatening or anxiety - produncing information in the unconscious

Refers to better recall at the presented beginning of information

Better recall at the beginning and end of body info.

The practice of intentionally repeating or rehearsing information so that can be store in long term memory

An active system that allows people to retain information

The process of making mental presentation of information so that it can be placed into our memories

Memory that is not unconsciously known

A type of declarative memory that involves facts, knowledge, concepts and language rules

Memory that is consciously known

Transfer information from short term to long term memory without any effort and usually without any awareness

Involves the transfer of information from short twrm to long term memory by working hard to repeat the information

An encoding technique that creates associations between bunber-word rhymes and items to be memorized

Is the person's ability to adopt to the environment and learn from experience

a subarea of psychology that concerned with developing psychological tests that assess individual 's abilities, skills, beliefs and personality traits

measures or quantifies cognitive abilities or factors that are thought to be involved in intellectual performance

Says that intelligence has a general mental ability factor, g, that represents what different cognitive tasks have in common

Founder of General Intelligence Theory

Theory says that there are at least nine different kinds of intelligence

Theory Says yhat intelligence can be divided into three different kinds of reasoning processes: logical thinking, crearive thinking abd ability to learn from experience, practical thinking to adopt the environment

Founder of Triarchic Theory

Founder of Multiple Intelligence Theory

Contained items arranged in order of increasing difficulty. These items measured vocabulary, memory, common knowledge and other cognitive abilities

Founder of Binet - Simon Intelligence Scale

A revision of Binet - Simon Intelligence Scale that adds some test items and translation into English

Formula of Calculating IQ score

Two Characteristics of Tests

Have utems that are organized into various subtests

Means that the test measures what it supposed to be measured

Refers to consistency

Is a statistical arrangement of scores that resembles a bell - shaped curve

Intelligence tests do not measure innate abilities or natural intelligence rather they measure individual's cognitive abilities from heredity and environment

Means the wording of the questions and experience on which the questions are based are more familiar to members of the social group than to others

Intelligence Tests by themselves should be used to label people

Are a fixed set of rules that if followed correctly, will eventually lead to a solution.

Involves searching for some rule, plan or stategy that results in reaching a certain goal that is currently out of reach

Are rules of thumb or clever and creative mental shourtcuts acquired through past experience that reduce the no. of operations and allow one to solve problems easily and quickly

Various physiological and psychological factors that cause us to act in a specific way at a particular time

states we aim to fulfill our basic needs which includes to feel autonomous, competent and related to others

The persistent negative emotional state that occurs when there is a disconnect between a person's biological sex and gended identity

which were formerly called sex roles are the traditional or stereotypical attitudes and personality traits that society designates as masculine or femine

a set of beluefs, values, and expectations that subtly encourages sexual activity in men but discourages same behavior in women

Women are primarily bearers and homemakers while men primarily providers and protectors

Refers to the presence of HIV antibodies which is believed to cause AIDS

Is persistent delay or absence of orgasm after being aroused and excited

A life- threatening condition that is pressent when a person is HIV positive

Involved cutting away the female's external genetalia

is a personality test in which participants are ask to look pictures of people in ambiguous situations and to make up stories about what the characters are thinking i'm feeling and what the outcome will be

refers to desire the set challenging goals and to persist pursuing those goals in the face of obstacles and setbacks.

is a serious eating disorder characterized by refusing to eat and not maintaining weight at 85% of what is expected, having an intense fear of being fat, missing at least 3 consecutive menstrual cycles

is characterized by a minimum of two binge- eating episodes per week for at least three months, fear of overeating; vomiting

Also called Transexualism which a person desires to be a member of other sex or uncomfortable with the assigned one.

Play anrole in developing sexual or gender identity role or Sexual orientation

The actual wording of a sentence as it is spoken

says that you form a concept of an object by making a mental list of essential characteristics

combination of a long lasting distinctive behavior that typify how we react and adopt to ther people and situations

Learning without awareness

Distinctive pattern of speaking in which a child learns articles prepositions and parts of verbs

Strategy for finding similarity between new situations and old familiar situations

Is an organized attempt to describe and explain how personalities develop and why personalities differ

Emphasizes the importance of early childhood experiences, unconscious or repressed thoughts that we cannot voluntary access, and the conflicts of conscious and unconscious forxes influences our thoughts

a combination of long lasting distinctive behavior, thought, that typify how we react and adapt to other people and situations

Changes in your personality caused by mental illness

Personality change refers to the different forms of change in various aspect of personality.

is a Freudian in which clients are encouraged to talk about any thoughts or images that enters their head the assumption is that this kind of free flowing uncensored talking

a Freudian Tchnique analyzing dreams based on the assumption that dreams contain underlying hidden meanings

are mistakes or slips of the tongue that we make in everyday speech

occurs when a person feels nervous for uneasy about situations

alzheimer's disease this creates plaques in the brain that cut off nutrients to brain neurons

first 18 months, a time when infants pleasure's seeking is centered on the mouth

a time when the infants pressure seeking is centered on the anus and its functions of elimination 18 months to 3 years

a time when the child's pleasure seeking is centered on the genitals. 3-6 years old

is a process in which a child competes with the parent of the same sex for the affections and pleasures of the parent of the opposite sex