Extra Crap Flashcards
Variance
like range, but better, says how spread out things are
Omission training
a specific form of punishment in which a positive event is withdrawn contingent on the occurrence of a target behavior
Ex-post-facto study
study examining how an independent variable, present prior to the study in the participants, affects a dependent variable
Kohler
insight experiments with apes
Neuroleptics
anti-psychotics
Kinefielter
genotype XXY, intersex with little side effects (and no cure) other than infertility
Episodic memory
memory of autobiographical events (times, places, associated emotions, and other contextual who, what, when, where, why knowledge) that can be explicitly stated or conjured. It is the collection of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place.
Approach-approach
choosing a good thing vs another good thing
PKU (Phenylketonuria)
is a rare inherited disorder that causes an amino acid called phenylalanine to build up in your body, can be controlled by diet
Psychogenic amnesia
also known as functional amnesia or dissociative amnesia, is a disorder characterized by abnormal memory functioning in the absence of structural brain damage or a known neurobiological cause (indicates dissociative disorder)
Somatic therapist
incorporates a person’s mind, body, spirit, and emotions in the healing process. Proponents of this type of therapy believe a person’s thoughts, attitudes, feelings, and beliefs can have an impact on physical functioning, while physical factors such as diet, exercise, and posture may positively or negatively affect a person’s mental and emotional state
Stable attribution
when people infer that an event or behavior is due to unchanging, permanent factors
Compliance strategy
Compliance refers to a response—specifically, a submission—made in reaction to a request. The request may be explicit (i.e., foot-in-the-door technique) or implicit (i.e., advertising). The target may or may not recognize that he or she is being urged to act in a particular way.
Semantic memory
a portion of long-term memory that processes ideas and concepts that are not drawn from personal experience. Semantic memory includes things that are common knowledge, such as the names of colors, the sounds of letters, the capitals of countries and other basic facts
Eidetic memory
the ability to recall images with vividness bordering on actual visual perception; total recall; also called photographic memory.
Theory X
people work for extrinsic reasons – in other words, money! This theory is linked to management and leadership, and assumes that workers are lazy, selfish, and generally sloppy at their work.
Theory Y
people are motivated for intrinsic reasons as opposed to extrinsic reasons. What this means is that they are working for reasons that go well beyond money and include reasons such as feeling satisfied with themsleves, increasing self esteem, helping others, etc.
Contralateral control
contralateral is a term that references the opposite side of something. … It is usually used in regards to the opposite side of the body from which something occurs. The hemispheres of the brain control the contralateral sides of the body
Counterbalancing
Counterbalancing is a type of experimental design in which all possible orders of presenting the variables are included. For example, if you have two groups of participants (group 1 and group 2) and two levels of an independent variable (level 1 and level 2), you would present one possible order (group 1 gets level 1 while group 2 gets level 2) first and then present the opposite order (group 1 gets level 2 while group 2 gets level 1)
Hawthorne effect
the alteration of behavior by the subjects of a study due to their awareness of being observed
Stratified sample
a sample that is drawn from a number of separate strata of the population, rather than at random from the whole population, in order that it should be representative.
Z score
indicates how many standard deviations an element is from the mean
Instrumental learning
another term for operant conditioning
Chaining
in operant conditioning, preforming a number of responses successively in order to get a reward (run through obstacle course) (link behaviors into more complex one)
