Unit 6
A mental representation of the layout of one’s environment
Cognitive Map
Memory that holds approximately 7 items
Short-term memory
A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
Motivation
A test to predict a person’s future performance
Aptitude test
Underestimate the situation and overestimate the disposition
Fundamental attribution error
Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it
Latent learning
Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously declare
Explicit memory
Basic requirements to live (hierarchy of needs)
Physiological needs
Most widely used intelligence test
WAIS
Using facts and arguments to persuade someone
Central route to persuasion
Acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors
Learning
Organizing items into familiar and manageable units
Chunking
Very top of Maslow hierarchy of needs
Self-transcendence
Extent to which a test yields consistent results
Reliability
Adjusting our behavior and thinking to go with the group
Conformity
Habituation
Memory aids
Mnemonics
Deliberately socially excluding someone
Ostracism
Extent which a test measures what it’s supposed to
Validity
Loss of self-awareness and self-restraint in a group setting
Deindividuation
The reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response
Spontaneous recovery
Neural center that helps process explicit memories for storage
Hippocampus
Excessive self-love
Narcissism
Research that compares people at different ages at one time
Cross-sectional study
The world is just, and people get what they deserve
Just-world phenomenon