Top 100 Terms Part 2 Flashcards
What is prospective memory?
Remembering to perform a task at the original time you intended to do that task
What is social loafing?
When an individual puts forth less effort while working in a group than when they are individual
What is the neuron firing process?
Dendrites receive chemical messages and it helps the neuron fire and the electrical signal makes its way down the axon and the axon terminal and in there is neuro transmitters that are released
What is the importance of myelin?
Creates faster action potential
What is it called when a neuron is firing?
Action potential
What is it called when a neuron is resting?
Resting potential
What is acetylcholine?
Stimulates muscle contraction
What is dopamine?
Seeks out pleasure
What is serotonin?
Regulates our moods
What is endorphins?
Reduces pain
What are display rules?
Cultural rules/norms that distinguish how one should express emotions
What is groupthink?
When individuals in a group censor their beliefs in order to preserve the harmony of the group
What is cognitive dissonance?
Mental strain that results from holding two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes
What is a schema?
The different categories that we organize information into in our brains
What is a self-fulfiling prophecy?
Expectation about a situation that impacts an individual’s behavior in such a way that leads to those expectation becoming a reality
What are the big five personality traits?
OCEAN
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
What are cross sectional studies?
Looks at different groups of people at the same time
What are longitudinal studies?
Where a researcher studies the same group of participants year after year after year
What are the downsides of longitudinal studies?
It takes long and thus costs more
What are the downsides of cross sectional studies?
You’re not studying the same group of participants
What are context dependent memories?
Tendency to retrieve memories that correspond to the physical setting we’re in
What are mood congruent memories?
Tendency to retrieve memories that correspond to the mood we’re in
What are state dependent memories?
Tendency to retrieve memories that correspond to the state (sleepy, awake, etc.) we’re in
What is encoding failure (three stage processing model)?
Inputs (inputs hitting senses) -> sensory memory (identifies what inputs are important) -> working memory (5-9 pieces of information are taken) -(encoding)-> long term memory
What is procedural memory?
Muscle memory
What is episodic memory?
Memory of events
What is semantic memory?
Memory of facts
What is mass practice?
Cramming
What is distributed practice?
Spacing out studying for short intervals over a period of time
What is a fixed ratio?
Organism knows when the reinforcement will occur after a number of instances
What is a fixed interval?
Organism knows when the reinforcement will occur after a certain amount of time
What is a variable ratio?
Organism doesn’t know when the reinforcement occurs but they must do the behavior to get it;
Ex: slot machine
What is a variable interval?
Organism doesn’t know when the reinforcement occurs but they do not have to do it to get the reinforcement;
Ex: a surfer waiting for a perfect wave
What is convergent thinking?
Finding one best solution
What is divergent thinking?
Finding creative or multiple solutions