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Buddhist Psych
Final Exam Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Afflictive mental factors | mental events born from clinging |
| Alayavijnana | foundation consciousness/store consciousness |
| alien hand syndrome | can't control 1 arm, results from damage to prefrontal cortex |
| automaticity | system 1 = do without thinking |
| basic emotions | anger, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness: distinct facial features that are the same across cultures and exist in blind babies |
| body scan | systematically go through body, checking in |
| close counterfactual | something almost happened |
| compassion | the wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering |
| controlled processing | system 2 |
| counterfactual | alternative reality to real experience, distraction from current moment |
| counterfactual emotions | emotions that are essentially counterfactual, like grief and regret |
| dorsolateral prefrontal cortex | controls ability to perceive and respond to the environment effectively, damage leads to inability to orchestrate complex cognitive activities |
| dream yoga | spiritual practice that extends meditation into sleep |
| emotional contagion | tendency for 2 individuals to emotionally converge unconsciously |
| empathy | feel others' emotions but know it isn't your own |
| endowment effect | assign more value to things that you own |
| equanimity | regard every sentient being as equal |
| flow | completely engaged, lose sense of self-consciousness: depends on skill level and level of challenge |
| focusing illusion | too much focus on a single aspect of an event, extend what we're thinking about at that moment to all the time |
| hedonic treadmill | change in level of happiness but doesn't last, rise in accomplishments leads to increased expectations followed by habituation and an increased need to be happy |
| Karuna | wish to relieve others' suffering, compassion |
| loving-kindness | wishing others well |
| lucid dreaming | conscious dream |
| MBCT | mindfulness-based cognitive therapy including mindfulness of routine activities, body scan, mindfulness of breath, yoga, scheduled breathing |
| MBSR | mindfulness-based stress reduction- 8 weeks including sitting meditation, body scan, mindful yoga, walking meditation |
| mental factors | aspects of the mind that apprehend the quality of an object, color the mind |
| Metta | wishing others well, loving kindness |
| mirror neurons | in prefrontal cortex, activated when you see a motion and when you're doing it |
| non-identification with emotions | lets emotions just be an observed process, not define your being |
| pain matrix | processes and regulates pain info, activates when in pain and when see others in pain |
| planner vs. doer | 2 separate selves, alternative scheme to systems 1 and 2 |
| positive psychology | cultivate positive qualities/well-being instead of just focusing on correcting illness |
| psychophysical methods | study relationship between physical stimuli and reportable sensations, tests subjective perception |
| reality checking | monitoring of info sources to insure accurate reps of spatiotemporal context |
| REM sleep | rapid eye movement- muscle paralysis, muscle twitches, dreams |
| selecting awareness | attribute of mind where focusing on this and not that |
| simulation | generation of internal models of external reality, past or future directed |
| split brain | 2 hemispheres disconnected |
| subjective wellbeing | people's evaluations of their lives/happiness |
| synthetic happiness | created happiness |
| system 1 | intuition, knee-jerk response |
| system 2 | reasoning, controlled, effortful |
| theory of mind | ability to attribute mental states to others and to simulate others, can be separate from empathy |
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arpatrick
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