Retrieval Grids #1-#3 Flashcards
Social Facilitation
performance on a task improves when others are watching
Soloman Asch
person responsible for the conformity study involving the length of lines
representatives heuristic
occurs when we estimate the probability of an event based on how similar it is to a prototype in our mind
conversion disorder
stress converts itself into some physical ailment without biological explanation
somatoform disorders
physical symptoms have no biological explanation other than stress
4D’s in terms of disorders
- distress
- deviant
- dysfunction
- dangerous
etiology
term used to discuss the causes of a disorder
william wundt
father of psychology
misinformation effect
recall of an event you witness is altered by misleading info
effortful processing
type of processing that requires attention and effort
linguistic relativity hypothesis
theory that says the language we speak determines out thoughts
G. Stanley Hall
person responsible for bringing psychology to the US
syntax
the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences
Noam Chonsky
believes humans possess a language acquisition device
inattentional blindness
term that describes when we fail to see things happening right in front of us
delta wave
brain wave pattern during N-REM stage 3 sleep
feature detectors
neurons in occipital lobe that detect shapes, angles and movement
4 brain parts of the limbic system
- hippocampus
- amygdala
- thalamus
- hippocampus
John Watson
psychologist responsible for the Baby Albert experiement
afferent neurons
neurons that carry message from the senses to the brain
mirror neurons
neurons that allow us to feel empathy, imitate others
pineal glands
the gland that secretes melatonin
ventromedial hypothesis
each eye projects image on slightly different locations on retina
