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33 Cards in this Set
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The tendency to believe that after learning the outcome that you would have known it |
Hindsight bias |
It's a type of bias |
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A perceived, non-existent connection |
Illusory correlation |
Another of the 5 attributed errors |
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Our predisposition to choosing people who are like us |
Selection effect |
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The ability to infer others feelings |
Theory of mind |
It's a theory |
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Theory that your brain either blocks or allows pain signals to pass through the brain |
Gate control theory |
You know this one |
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A failure to see something due to your selective attention |
Change blindness |
Blind to _____ |
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Theory that we are influenced by our surroundings |
Social influence theory |
It's a theory |
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The minds ability to distinguish between a CS and the natural occurring US |
Discrimination |
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You remember the 1st and last things on a better than ones in the middle |
Serial position effect |
It's an effect |
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The activation, usually unconsciously, of particular associations in memory |
Priming |
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Tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with ones mood |
Mood congruent memory |
Mood congruent (theory) |
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Incorporating misleading information into ones memory of an event |
Misinformation effect |
(misattribution affect) |
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Our tendency to cling to our beliefs even after proven wrong |
Belief preservation |
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Tests that are intended to reflect what you have actually learned |
Achievement tests |
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The extent to which differences among people can be attributed to genes |
Heritability |
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A desire to accomplish great things for the sake of being great |
Intrinsic motivation |
Internal motivation |
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An emotional release |
Catharsis |
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The sense that we are worse off than those that we compare ourselves |
Relative deprivation |
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When you unconsciously switch your true feelings to their opposites in order to hide your actual feelings and keep you safe |
Reaction formation |
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The passive resignation that results from a lack of control over your own desperate |
Learned helplessness |
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Dissociation |
A split in consciousness, which allows some thought and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others |
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Facial feedback |
Your face can feed emotion |
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Free Association |
The method Freud used with his patients to unlock their hidden desires and motives |
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Rationalization |
Offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for ones actions |
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Flashbulb memories |
A strikingly clear memory of a surprising emotionally significant moment or event |
You know this |
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Social cognitive perspective |
Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between prisons and their social context |
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Gender schema theory |
A theory that children learn from their cultures what it means to be male or female than adjust behavior accordingly |
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Phi phenomenon |
An illusion of movement created when 2 or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession |
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Drive reduction theory |
Aroused state drives organisms to reduce the need |
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Projection |
Distinguishing threatening impulses by attributing them to others |
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Displacement |
Shifts impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person |
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Spacing effect |
Spacing out study/practice will improve results (more learning will occur) |
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Hidden observing |
One part of the brain still identifies that pain is occurring but divided dissociation does not recognize the pain outwardly |
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