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