Vocab 21-40

Question 1

Cognitive dissonance

Answer 1

State of uneasiness in your mind (internal tension) caused by conflicting attitudes & beliefs

Question 2

Clever Hans experiment

Answer 2

Tendency to think animals are smarter than they actually are

Question 3

Classic conditioning

Answer 3

Learning involuntary behaviors by associating stimuli together

Question 4

Chunking

Answer 4

Grouping items into smaller groups makes it easier to memorize

Question 5

Personality disorders (character disorder)

Answer 5

Character flaws that interfere with a persons relationship to others, job performance, & image of themselves

Question 6

Chaining

Answer 6

Putting several learned behaviors together to make one complete whole routine

Question 7

Carol Gillian’s critique of kohlberg

Answer 7

Gilligan pointed out the male bias in Lawrence Kohlbergs moral development research

Question 8

Carl Rodgers person centered therapy

Answer 8

The reformed traditional therapy

Called his patients “clients” & not “patients”

Question 9

Cannon/Bard theory

Answer 9

Emotion and perceptions of those emotions occur simultaneously

Question 10

James-Lange theory

Answer 10

Emotion result from interpreting our psychological reactions and then deciding it’s a certain emotion

Question 11

Bystander intervention

Answer 11

The factors that influence whether you will help a stranger

• if you’re in a hurry
• if you feel competent
• if the person is like you
• if you are in a small or large group

Question 12

Broca’s Aphasia

Answer 12

Type of language disorder caused by damage to the left frontal lobe

Question 13

Brainstorming

Answer 13

Way to generate novel solutions to problems

Question 14

Blood brain barrier

Answer 14

Made up of specialized glial cells that form fatty material around blood vessels in the brain

Question 15

Blindspot

Answer 15

The region in the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye

Question 16

Binocular disparity

Answer 16

The differences between the visual images that each eye perceives because of the different angles in which each eye views the world

Question 17

Benjamin Whorf’s theory of inguistic relativism

Answer 17

Differences in language create difference in thought

Question 18

Bell curve

Answer 18

Used to measure intelligence on a bell shaped curve

Question 19

Behavior as being adapted

Answer 19

Behavior that is learned in response to a set of stimuli in an environment

Question 20

Babinsky response

Answer 20

Reflex produced by stroking the sole of the foot causing the toes to fan out

Question 21

Color blindness

Answer 21

Caused by a lack of certain photoreceptors (rods & cones) on the retina