In psychodynamic psychology, the component of personality that is the largely conscious controller or decision-maker of personality
What is the Ego
100
The intensity of a stimulus that allows an organism to just barely detect it
What is Absolute Threshold
100
A pattern of knowledge in long-term memory that helps us organize information
What is Schema
100
Learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus (e.g., a tone) becomes associated with a stimulus (e.g., food) that naturally produces a behavior
What is Classical Conditioning
100
The processes that we use to make sense of, modify, interpret, and store information in STM
What is Working Memory
200
Unconscious psychological strategies used to cope with anxiety and to maintain a positive self-image
What is Defense Mechanisms
200
Just noticeable difference of a stimulus is a constant proportion of the original intensity of the stimulus
What is Weber's Law
200
A progressive neurological disease that includes loss of cognitive abilities, which affect social and occupational functioning
What is Dementia
200
The sudden understanding of the solution to a problem
What is Insight
200
The fact that learning is better when the same amount of study is spread out over periods of time than it is when it occurs closer together or at the same time
What is Spacing Effect
300
A projective measure of personality in which the respondent indicates his or her thoughts about a series of 10 symmetrical inkblots
What is Rorscach Inkblot Test
300
Visual neurons that are specialized in detecting fine detail and colors
What is Cones
300
A person’s accumulated general knowledge about the world, including semantic knowledge, vocabulary, and language
What is Crystallized Intelligence
300
Learning that occurs based on the consequences of behavior
What is Operant Conditioning
300
Explicit memory of knowledge of facts and concepts about the world
What is Semantic Memory
400
In psychodynamic psychology, the component of personality that forms the basis of our most primitive impulses
What is the Id
400
The theory of color perception that proposes that what color we see depends on the mix of the signals from the three types of cones
What is Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Color Theory
400
The ability to think and acquire information quickly and abstractly
What is Fluid Intelligence
400
Any event that weakens or decreases the likelihood of a behavior
What is a Punisher
400
The process by which we place the things that we experience into memory
What is Encoding
500
The observation that people tend to believe in descriptions of their personality that supposedly are descriptive of them but could in fact describe almost anyone.
What is the Barnum Effect
500
A theory of pitch perception that proposes that different areas of the cochlea respond to different sound frequencies
What is Place Theory of Hearing
500
The part of the self-concept that is derived from one’s group memberships
What is Social Identity
500
Learning that is not reinforced and not demonstrated until there is motivation to do so
What is Latent Learning
500
An information-processing strategy that is useful in many cases but may lead to errors when misapplied