Psychology terms

Here are 31 words you are to define for general psychology

 

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1. Positive reinforcement (with an example)

2. Negative reinforcement (with an example)

3. Positive punishment (with an example)

4. Negative punishment (with an example)

5. B.F. Skinner (three bullet points about him)

6. Unconditioned stimulus (with an example; the example can include the response to 7,8,9)

7. Unconditioned response (with an example)

8. Conditioned stimulus (with an example)

9. Conditioned response (with an example)

10. Procedural memory

11. Semantic memory

12. Episodic memory

13. Limbic system

14. Amygdala

15. Frontal lobes

16. Occipital lobes

17. Temporal lobes

18. Parietal lobes

19. Corpus callosum

20. Phineas Gage (3 bullet points)

21. REM sleep

22. Extinction in operant conditioning

23. Extinction in classical conditioning

24. The Forgetting Curve

25. The benefits of self-testing

26. Interleaving

27. What are the three stages of memory?

28. Psychology

29. Independent variable

30. Dependent variable

31. Measures of Central Tendency

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