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Flashcards by Alexis Vera, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alexis Vera
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| Question | Answer |
| flynn effect | the trend where test scores increase over time |
| validity | A measure of the extent to which a test actually assesses what it claims |
| kinesthetic sense | the awareness of the body's position in space, and of the movements of its various limbs |
| self serving bias | the tendency to attribute our successes to internal, personal factors, and our failures to external, situational factors |
| barnum effect | a cognitive bias that occurs when individuals believe that generic personality descriptions and statements apply to themselves |
| fundamental attribution error | the tendency people have to overemphasize personal characteristics and ignore situational factors in judging others' behavior |
| mere exposure effect | a psychological phenomenon whereby people feel a preference for people or things simply because they are familiar. |
| frequency theory | whatever the pitch of a sound wave, nerve impulses of a corresponding frequency will be sent to the auditory nerve. |
| somatosensory cortex | a region of the brain that is responsible for receiving and processing sensory information from across the body, such as touch, temperature, and pain. |
| confirmation bias | the tendency to seek out and prefer information that supports our preexisting beliefs. |
| agoraphobia | involves fearing and avoiding places or situations that might cause panic and feelings of being trapped, helpless or embarrassed. |
| an experiment | an investigation seeking to understand the relations between cause and effect. |
| correlational research | assess if a relationship exists between two variables. |
| basilar membrane | thin strip of tissue within the cochlea that contains the hair cells which serve as the sensory receptors for the auditory system |
| cocktail party effect | the ability to focus one's attention a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli |
| latent learning | the subconscious retention of information without reinforcement or motivation |
| linguistic determinism | a concept taken from the narrow field of analytic philosophy and postulates that human language limits and determines human thought patterns and knowledge. |
| aversion therapy | psychotherapy designed to cause a patient to reduce or avoid an undesirable behaviour pattern by conditioning the person to associate the behaviour with an undesirable stimulus. |
| systematic desensitization | if your child is fearful of dogs, first show him photos on the computer; then, walk with him past a dog park; then, eventually, build up to moving closer to the dogs themselves. |
| basilar membrane | thin strip of tissue within the cochlea that contains the hair cells which serve as the sensory receptors for the auditory system |
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