Memory Lane
The process of getting information into memory.
Encoding
A consequence that strengthens the behavior it follows.
Reinforcement
This is the most frequently occurring score in a data set.
Mode
This perspective looks at natural selection’s influence on behavior and mental processes.
Evolutionary perspective
Adjusting your behavior or thinking to match a group standard is called this.
Conformity
This amnesia involves difficulty forming new memories after brain damage.
Anterograde amnesia
Learning by forming associations between two stimuli is called this.
Classical conditioning
This measure is the middle score when the numbers are arranged in order.
Median
This perspective emphasizes observable actions and the ways they are learned.
Behavioral perspective
The idea that people are less likely to help when others are present.
Bystander effect
The brief sensory memory of visual stimuli is called this.
Iconic memory
Learning that occurs by observing and imitating others.
Social learning
A graph that shows the frequency distribution of a set of data, often forming a bell-shaped curve.
Normal distribution
This perspective focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
Cognitive perspective
A technique where you first make a small request to increase the chances someone will later agree to a larger request.
Foot-in-the-door technique
When misleading information alters a person's memory of an event, it is called this effect.
Misinformation effect
In classical conditioning, this term refers to the diminishing of a conditioned response.
Extinction
The formula to calculate IQ using mental and chronological age.
(MA / CA) x 100
This psychological perspective focuses on how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts.
Psychodynamic perspective
When the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides realistic appraisal of alternatives.
Groupthink
The tendency to remember items at the beginning of a list is known as this effect.
Primacy effect
The tendency of learned behaviors to drift back toward instinctual behaviors over time.
Instinctive drift
The percentage of people that score between 85 and 115 on an IQ Test
68%
This perspective examines how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures.
Sociocultural perspective
The tendency to overestimate personal traits and underestimate situational factors when explaining others' behavior.
Fundamental attribution error