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  1. 5. Conditioning: type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli
  2. 7. Perspective: Objects appear blurred and faint from a distance
  3. 10. Rules: norms on how to properly express emotions and act in public
  4. 11. period: the period shortly after birth when an organism’s exposure to certain stimuli produces proper development
  5. 14. Research: A scientific method of study that strives towards solving an issue affecting an individual or group
  6. 15. the component of the personality that is represented by a conscious, decision making process - operates on reality principle
  7. 16. Bias: tendency to seek and create information that verifies existing beliefs even if current information indicates that the original belief was incorrect
  8. 18. Threshold: The minimum amount of stimulus energy required to sense a certain stimulus 50% of the time.
  9. 19. operations: Piaget’s stage of cognitive development - theory that children (age 6-11) gain mental operations that enable them to think logically
  10. 21. A physician and psychotherapist who advocated for human well-being and establishing positive changes/impacts to the world.
  11. 22. five: Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism
  12. 23. Thinking: when a person tries to find a single correct answer to a problem
  13. 25. Developed the first intelligence test and believed that intelligence was complex and could not be fully captured by a single measure
  14. 28. developmental psychologist who is known for his psychosocial theory
  15. 29. Reward: type of behavior driven by outside sources, rewards or other incentives
  16. 32. callosum: bridge of fibers passing information between the two hemispheres
  17. 33. area: part of brain that helps control language expression
  18. 36. A rule that guides one towards solving a problem.
  19. 37. taking out one’s anger on a person or object that is not the cause of the offense
  20. 38. type of psychiatric treatment that involves inducing seizures
  21. 43. synthesis theory: Explains why we dream and suggests that dreams form due to physiological processes in the brain.
  22. 44. Psychologist of observational learning, known for his bobo doll experiments and his concept of self-efficacy
  23. 45. Cues: a depth cue, such as retinal disparity, that depends on the use of two eyes
  24. 47. This deals with sensation and perception and is a process where our eye’s lens changes shape to focus objects that are in the retina.
  25. 48. argued that we were all born with an innate knowledge of grammar that serves as the basis of knowledge
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  1. 1. Cue: Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory
  2. 2. where we take in new information and interpret our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas
  3. 3. Effect: the increase in IQ scores over time
  4. 4. response: learned response to a stimulus that was previously neutral or meaningless
  5. 6. Threshold: minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of the time
  6. 8. Our ability to adjust to and accept new things or changes that come our way
  7. 9. psychologist that realized the relationship between facial expressions and emotions
  8. 12. Refractory Period: The period during action potential where a stimulus is sent to a neuron which prevents the neuron from becoming excited and firing.
  9. 13. theory: The idea that people are driven to perform actions that bring them physiological arousal
  10. 17. Neurons: type of conducting cells that carry information from the central nervous system to the muscles and organs
  11. 20. Rehearsal: memory technique that involves thinking about the meaning of a term to be remembered
  12. 24. gradual weakening of a conditioned response
  13. 26. Represent patterns and images that are part of the collective unconscious
  14. 27. sodium gates open and let sodium into the axon, causing the axon to become omore positive on the inside
  15. 30. the extent to which the eyes move inwards while looking at an object
  16. 31. Thinking: solving a problem with multiple possible solutions
  17. 34. needs: One’s desire to form relationships and feel a sense of belonging
  18. 35. Reduction: behaviors that are driven by the motivation to fulfill biological needs
  19. 36. Effect: phenomenon of visual perception in which a stationary, small point of light appears to move in an otherwise dark or featureless environment
  20. 39. of STM: How much we can remember in our short term memory?
  21. 40. NS: body processes that take place without conscious effort
  22. 41. Operations: the fourth stage of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development; increase in one’s ability to think about abstract concepts and develop egocentrism
  23. 42. Potential: A neural impulse or short electrical charge which moves down an axon.
  24. 46. Organizing items into familiar, manageable chunks, often occurs automatically.