Vocab 21-40 Flashcards
Cognitive dissonance
State of uneasiness in your mind (internal tension) caused by conflicting attitudes & beliefs
Clever Hans experiment
Tendency to think animals are smarter than they actually are
Classic conditioning
Learning involuntary behaviors by associating stimuli together
Chunking
Grouping items into smaller groups makes it easier to memorize
Personality disorders (character disorder)
Character flaws that interfere with a persons relationship to others, job performance, & image of themselves
Chaining
Putting several learned behaviors together to make one complete whole routine
Carol Gillian’s critique of kohlberg
Gilligan pointed out the male bias in Lawrence Kohlbergs moral development research
Carl Rodgers person centered therapy
The reformed traditional therapy
Called his patients “clients” & not “patients”
Cannon/Bard theory
Emotion and perceptions of those emotions occur simultaneously
James-Lange theory
Emotion result from interpreting our psychological reactions and then deciding it’s a certain emotion
Bystander intervention
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
Broca’s Aphasia
Type of language disorder caused by damage to the left frontal lobe
Brainstorming
Way to generate novel solutions to problems
Blood brain barrier
Made up of specialized glial cells that form fatty material around blood vessels in the brain
Blindspot
The region in the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye
Binocular disparity
The differences between the visual images that each eye perceives because of the different angles in which each eye views the world
Benjamin Whorf’s theory of inguistic relativism
Differences in language create difference in thought
Bell curve
Used to measure intelligence on a bell shaped curve
Behavior as being adapted
Behavior that is learned in response to a set of stimuli in an environment
Babinsky response
Reflex produced by stroking the sole of the foot causing the toes to fan out
Color blindness
Caused by a lack of certain photoreceptors (rods & cones) on the retina
