Final Review Flashcards
What is an emblem?
Gestures that have very precise meanings known within an ethnic, cultural, or sub-cultural group.
What is chunking?
A process by which small individual pieces of a set of information are bound together to create a meaningful whole later on in memory.
What is Occam’s Razor?
When presented with two equally possible explanations for a phenomenon, choose the simpler of the two.
What are display rules?
Cross-cultural guidelines for how and when to express emotions.
What is confirmation bias?
The tendency to seek out and prefer information that supports our preexisting beliefs.
What is opponent-process theory?
Theory that we perceive colours in terms of three pairs of opponent colours: either red and green, blue and yellow, or black and white.
What is the Pegword method?
A mnemonic technique used to help people hold information in working memory.
What is long-term potentiation?
Gradual strengthening of the connections among neurons from repetitive stimulation.
