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Psych AP U3

Vocabulary set #2 for Mrs.Farmer's class

QuestionAnswer
bigot one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
expunged to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion
candid marked by honest sincere expression
argot the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group
negligence failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in like circumstances
appease to cause to subside
strident characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound
chaos a state of utter confusion
augment to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense
jingoism extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy
alter change, other
ego self
mega large
polis city, state
centris centered on
Sensation detection of the five senses and how the info gets to the brain
Bottom-up Processing sensory receptors register info about the environment and send it to the brain
Perception the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information
Top-down Processing constructs perceptions based on experiences and expectations
Psychophysics the study of relationships between physical characteristics of stimuli and our psychological experiences of them (physical world vs. psychological world)
Absolute Threshold the minimum stimulation needed to detect one particular stimulus 50% of the time
Signal Detection Theory we detect the pres of a daint stimul against background distractions
Subliminal Stimulation below one’s absolute threshold for conscious awareness
Priming exposing one stimulus to influence response to another
Difference Threshold the minimum difference a person can detect between two things 50% of the time
Weber’s Law difference between two stimuli must differ by a constant percentage
Sensory Adaptation diminished sensitivity due to constant stimulation
Transduction conversion of one energy form into another that the brain can use
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