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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Prefrontal cortex | brain area for decision making and attention |
| hippocampus | brain area that forms new memories |
| arousal | level of physiological activation |
| stress | response to perceived demands |
| neuroplasticity | Brain's ability to change |
| Selective attention | focusing on one stimulus among many |
| working memory | holding and manipulating info |
| encoding | processing information into memory and assigning meaning |
| retrieval | accessing stored memory |
| schema | mental framework for organizing info |
| heuristic | mental shortcut |
| metacognition | thinking about thinking |
| motivation | processes that direct behavior |
| intrinsic motivation | internal desire to succeed |
| normative social influence | conforming for approval |
| social facilitation | better performance on well learned tasks around others |
| locus of control | beliefs about control |
| yerkes dodson law | optimal arousal improves performance |
| hindsight bias | tendency to believe after learning outcome that one would've foreseen it |
| overconfidence | tendency to think we know more than we do |
| amygdala | neural clusters in limbic system linked to emotion |
| epigenetics | the study of how behaviors and environmental factors—such as diet, stress, and physical activity—cause reversible chemical modifications that turn genes "on" or "off" without changing the underlying DNA sequence |
| REM rebound | tendency to enter REM faster when sleep deprived |
| circadian rythm | biological clock |
| suprachiasmatic nucleus | pair of clusters in hypothalamus that controls the circadian rhythm by responding to light |
| absolute threshold | minimum stimulus energy needed to detect stimulus |
| Weber's law | principle that to be perceived as different 2 stimuli must differ by constant minimum percent |
| sensory adaptation | diminished sensitivity as consequence of constant stimulation |
| gate control theory | spine contains neurological "gate" allowing pain to pass |
| sensory interaction | principle that one sense can influence another |
| embodied cognition | influence of bodily sensations, gestures, and other states on cognitive perceptions |
| inattentional blindness | failing to see visible objects when distracted |
| change blindness | failing to notice changes we don't expect |
| gestalt | emphasizes tendency to integrate pieces into a meaningful whole |
| confirmation bias | tendency to seek out info that confirms existing views |
| framing | effecting judgments based on how an issue is presented |
| stereotype threat | self confirming that one will be evaluated based on negative stereotypes |
| theory of mind | peoples ideas about their own and others mental states |
| selection effect | seeking out those with similar characterisitics |
| habituation | decreased responsiveness with repeated stimulus |
| attrubution theory | explaining someone's behavior by crediting either personal disposition or environmental factors |
| spotlight effect | tendency to believe things are more noticeable about us |
| subjective well being | self perceived happiness used along with objective measures of well being to evaluate quality of life |
| learned helplesness | helpless feeling from not being able to avoid repeated aversive events |
| feel good do good | tendency to be helpful when in a good mood |
| relative deprivation | perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves |
| broaden and build theory | positive emotions broaden awareness helping build skills and resilience |
| diathesis stress model | the concept that genetic predispositions and environment influence psychological disorders |
| general adaptation theory | describes the stages in which the body responds to stress in stages of alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. The body cannot return to a neutral state until the stressor is removed, or exhaustion is reached. |
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