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55 terms not in our textbook that we still need to know for the AP Exam

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Hindsight bias   thinking after an event has occurred that the event was more predictable than it actually was  
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illusory correlation   perceiving a relationship between variables even when none exists  
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scatter plots   a graph displaying data of two variables, an independent and a dependent variable  
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statistical significance   the probability that an event is not due to just chance alone  
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personal space   the space around a person which they claim as theirs; the closer a person allows someone else to come, the more intimate the relationship between these people  
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gender role   social and behavioral roles that are deemed appropriate for men and women to take on  
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cognitive neuroscience   study of how the psychological and cognitive functions are caused by the brain  
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inattentional blindness   failing to recognize an unexpected stimulus that is within the line of sight; not attributed to a vision problem but instead an attention problem  
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night terrors   a sever nightmare; a person quickly wakes up in a terrified state; a psychological disorder  
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REM rebound   after sleep deprivation, a person will enter REM sleep much faster, will have increased frequency and depth of REM sleep  
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Near-death experience   a personal experience of feeling dead, often accompanied by feeling weightless, seeing a white light, and detachment from one’s body  
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Primary sex characteristics   any part of the body involved in reproduction  
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Secondary sex characteristics   features that develop during sexual maturity and help distinguish between the sexes but are not part of the reproductive system  
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Cross-sectional study   data collection from a population gathered at one specific point in time  
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Longitudinal study   collects data from the same individuals over a long period of time  
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Place theory   a theory regarding auditory perception that states that our perception of sounds depends on where in the basilar membrane each component frequency vibrates  
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Frequency theory   the rate of the pulse traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency heard, we only experience the vibrations on the auditory nerve  
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Kinesthesis   the ability to feel movements and positions of the limb and body  
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Vestibular sense   located in the inner ear, the sense that helps us maintain balance and orientation  
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Phi phenomenon   perceiving continuous movement seemingly created by rapidly changing images  
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Parapsychology   field of psychology dealing with paranormal and psychic activity  
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Associative learning   process by which an association is created between stimuli or a behavior and a stimulus  
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Higher order conditioning   classical conditioning taken one step further  
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Cognitive map   a mental layout of one’s environment created in your mind to ease cognitive processing  
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Imagery   formation of mental images, visualizing something with your mind  
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Mood-congruent memory   a memory process that retrieves memories that match one’s mood  
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Misinformation effect   incorporating false information gathered after an event that your mind incorporates into its memory and believes to be true  
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Source amnesia   retaining information, but not being able to recall information about how/who/what/when/where/why you learned it  
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Belief perseverance   remaining steadfast in your beliefs even in the face of contradictory evidence  
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Intuition   the ability to understand something without the need for conscious reasoning of inference about the subject  
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Telegraphic speech   speech during the two word stage of language acquisition, very compressed and telegram like  
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Aphasia   disturbance in comprehension and production of language  
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Linguistic determinism   language limits and determines human thought  
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Factor analysis   used to determine which factors cause most of the variance in data from many possible variables  
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Emotional intelligence   ability to identify, assess, and control emotions of oneself and others  
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Stereotype threat   the threat that a person may confirm a negative stereotype about the group they belong to  
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Feel-good, do-good phenomenon   you are more likely to do good when you are in a good mood  
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Relative deprivation   being deprived of something the one feels they are entitled to have  
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Self-concept   a collection of beliefs about oneself  
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Social cognitive perception   how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people  
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Reciprocal determinism   behavior is both influenced by and influences personal factors and the environment  
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External locus of control   belief that events are beyond your control, fate or chance  
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Internal locus of control   belief that events are within one’s control and are due to ability, effort, attitude  
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Spotlight effect   overestimating the extent to which an audience is observing oneself when in a spotlight or other similar situation  
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Eclectic approach   drawing from several different sources, theories, ideas  
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Meta-analysis   a study of studies, comparing and contrasting different study results to see if common themes are present  
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Central route of persuasion   focuses on using facts and arguments to persuade an audience  
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Peripheral route of persuasion   using means other than facts and arguments to persuade, such as attire, sound of voice, fancy visual aids  
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Deindividualization   the loss of a persons sense of individuality, losing of self awareness  
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Scapegoat theory   groups that one does not like and is prejudiced against become scapegoats for this person to vent on  
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Just-world phenomenon   belief that the world is just and that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get  
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Frustration-aggression principle   aggression is the result of frustration  
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Mere exposure effect   people develop a preference for things simply because they are familiar with them  
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Self-disclosure   a person revealing themselves to another person, varies in breadth and depth of disclosure  
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Social-responsibility norm   people have an obligation to benefit society, norm that people will help those dependent upon them  
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