Cognitive Psy Vocab Flashcards
Unconscious mental process influencing judgment and decisions.
Differs from conscious processing in that it is faster, more automated, but less flexible.
Like “RAPID COGNITION”
ADAPTIVE UNCONSCIOUS
State of having inconsistent, incongruous thoughts relating to a decision.
Triggered when a person’s fervid beliefs clash with new contradictory evidence.
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
Lose the ability to maintain normal psychological defenses.
May result in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
Can be decompensated or decompensating.
CMPR to PSYCHOSIS.
DECOMPENSATE
Coded language meaning one thing to the public but with a different, more ominous, resonance for a targeted subgroup.
DOG-WHISTLING
Enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves.
Learning through self trial and error.
CMPR to AUTODIDACTIC
HEURISTIC
Psychological manipulation used to sew the seeds of doubt in a targeted individual.
Cause to question: memory, perception, or judgment.
May evoke COGNITIVE DISSONANCE or low self esteem.
GASLIGHTING
Informal: act obsessive-compulsive (OCD)
Nature of physical or mental disease.
PATHOLOGICAL
Ability to deny responsibility due to lack of evidence of participation.
May be willfully ignorant.
PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY
Severe mental disorder resulting in impaired contact with reality.
PSYCHOSIS
The ability to make snap judgments.
Uses the ADAPTIVE UNCONSCIOUS.
Like: instinct, intuition, or a hunch.
RAPID COGNITIVE
Lack of resources THOUGHT necessary to maintain the quality of life as members of a particular socioeconomic group.
RELATIVE DEPRIVATION THEORY
Occurs when income falls below a level adequate to maintain food and shelter.
Abject (def: to a max degree negatively) poverty.
Not a perceived measure of comparison like RELATIVE DEPRIVATION THEORY.
ABSOLUTE DEPRIVATION
Finding patterns in narrow windows of experience.
THIN-SLICING
System rejects a “true” null hypothesis.
Aka - FALSE POSITIVE
(System returns a “false” rejection of a “positive” or proper user - locking him out of his account.)
TYPE 1 ERROR
System accepts a “false” null hypothesis.
Aka a FALSE NEGATIVE.
System “falsely” authorizes a “negative” or improper user.
TYPE 2 ERROR
Default position that there is no difference between two measured phenomena (or two samples from the same population).
Assumed to be true until evidence (statistical significance) indicates otherwise.
(E.g. presumed innocent)
Used in inferential statistics.
Often denoted: H\/0
NULL HYPOTHESIS
Statement being tested against the NULL HYPOTHESIS.
Denoted: H\/A
ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS
A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as the starting point for further investigation.
HYPOTHESIS
Strives for immediate gratification of all desires, wants, and needs, and if not satisfied results in anxiety and tension.
Only components of personality present from birth.
Entirely unconscious and includes instinctive and primitive behaviors.
Driven by the “Pleasure Principle”
FREUD: The ID
Strives to satisfy the ID’s desires in a realistic and socially appropriate way by weighing the cost-benefits of an action instead of reacting impulsively.
Functions in the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious mind.
Functions based on the “Reality Principle”
FREUD: The EGO
Holds the internalized standards and ideals that we acquire from our parents and society (our sense of right and wrong).
Provides guidelines for making judgments.
Emerges at around age five.
Works to suppress the unacceptable urges of the ID and to make the EGO act upon idealistic standards rather than realistic principles.
Present in the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.
FREUD: The SUPEREGO
Phenomenon leads to a maladaptive personality.
An individual with an overly dominant ID might become impulsive, uncontrollable, or criminal.
An individual with an overly dominant SUPEREGO might lead to a personality that is extremely moralistic and judgmental (SANCTIMONIOUS and SELF-RIGHTEOUS) not accepting anyone that they perceive as “bad” or “immoral”.
FREUD: PERSONALITY IMBALANCE
Abstract principle that autonomous beings (or “agents”) have the capacity to act independently and make their ow free choices to achieve their intentions.
HAVE OR TAKE AGENCY
The Big 5 personality traits discovered and coined by Robert McCrae.
OCEAN
O-Openness to new ideas C-Conscientious E-Extrovert/introvert (middle: ambivert) A-Agreeableness N-Neuroticism
Extreme preoccupation with one’s feelings and desires.
Extremely egotistical.
OR:
A theory that the self can know nothing but its own modifications, an the self is the only existing thing.
SOLIPSISM
Obsessively checking online media for anticipated bad news.
DOOMSCROLLING
Practice of publicly expressing sentiments intended to demonstrate one good character or moral correctness.
VIRTUE SIGNALING
A massive amount of rapidly growing and circulating information consisting of a confusing combination of fact, falsehood, rumor and opinion.
INFODEMIC
