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Social facilitation |
The tendency to do better on simple tasks in the presence of other people |
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Adaptation level phenomenon |
Emotions and sensations are relative and quick to change |
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Relative deprivation principle |
Being deprived of something to which one believes to be entitled to |
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Phi phenomenon |
Optical illusion of perceiving continuous motion between separate objects viewed in rapid succession |
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Belief perseverance |
Cling to ones initial belief even after receiving new information that contradicts their belief |
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Functional fixedness |
A bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used |
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Sensory adaptation |
Sensing a sudden stimulus |
If one rests ones hand in a table one immediately feels the table surface on ones skin |
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Testoserone |
A steroid hormone linked to more physical aggression |
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Insomnia |
Inability to sleep |
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Narcolepsy |
To fall asleep whenever in relaxing surroundings |
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Mere exposure effect |
People tend to develop a preference for things because they are familiar with them |
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Context effect |
Influence of environmental factors on ones perception of a stimulus |
Guy ignore man sitting on the side of the road without any concern, man is actually in need of assistance |
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Activation synthesis |
As the body and brain cycles through the day and night chemicals that activate the nerves of the brainstem shift and change |
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Long term potentiation |
A persistent increase in synaptic strength following high frequency stimulation of a chemical synapse |
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Representative heuristic |
Used when making judgement about the probability of an event under uncertainty |
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Availability heuristic |
Mental shortcut the relies on immediate examples that come to a given persons mind when evaluating a specific topic |
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Cataract |
When the lens becomes cloudy and you cannot see well |
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Reciprocal determination |
A persons behavior both influences and is influenced by personal factors and the social environment |
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Framing effect |
People react to a particular choice in different ways depending on how it is presented |
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Encoding |
Process of getting information into memory |
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Shaping |
A method of training by which successive approximations toward a desired target behavior are reinforced |
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Latent learning |
A form of learning that is not immediately expressed in an overt response. It occurs without any obvious reinforcement of the behavior |
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Explicit memory |
Factual |
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Implicit |
Skills |
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Pre conventinal |
Moral code is based on the standards if adults and the consequences of following or breaking the rules |
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Conventional morality |
We begun to internalize the moral standards of valued adult role models |
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Post conventional morality |
Morals based on self chosen principals and moral reasons |
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Delayed reinforcement |
A time delay between the desired response of an organism and the delivery if reward |
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Gender scheme theory |
How sex linked characteristics are maintained and transmitted to other members of a culture |
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Object permanence |
The understanding that object still exist even if they cannot be seen |
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Broca's area |
Production of speech |
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Wernickies area |
Comprehension of language |
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Angular Gyrus |
Involves in a number of processes related to language, number processing and spatial cognition, memory retrieval, attention. |
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Comets sexual response cycle |
Excitement-> plateau-> Orgasm-> Resolution |
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Barnum effect |
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Spotlight effect |
When everything is about you |
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Volley theory |
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Fixed ratio |
Predictable. Your behavior |
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Fixed interval |
Predictable. Time/another person behavior |
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Variable ratio |
Unpredictable. Your behavior |
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Variable interval |
Unpredictable. Time/another persons behavior |
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