Abnormal Psych
Memory and Cognition
Learning
Research and Methods
Social Psych
100

A psychological disorder marked by the appearance of one or more of three key symptoms– extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.

ADHD

100

The effect that showcases that distributed study or practice yields better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice

Spacing Effect

100

The stage when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response.

Acquisition

100

Graph that allows one to directly see the relationship between two variables

Scatterplot

100

The theory that explains someone’s behavior by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition

Attribution Theory

200

A disorder is characterized by being continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

200

A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

Flashbulb Memory

200

The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses

Generalization

200

When we see an association between two variables (events, actions, ideas, etc.) when they aren't actually associated

Illusory Correlation

200

The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request

Foot-in-the-door Phenomenon

300

A psychological disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished or inappropriate emotional expression.

Schizophrenia

300

An increase in a cell’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation

Long-term potentiation (LTP)

300

An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior

Shaping

300

The use of chance procedures in psychology experiments to ensure that each participant has the same opportunity to be assigned to any given group

Random Assignment

300

The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity. 

Deindividuation

400

A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

Dissociative identity disorder (DID)

400

The effect that states that the last and first items within a list are the items that we are best able to recall

Serial Position Effect

400

The type of learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it

Latent Learning

400

The tendency, upon learning an outcome of an event—such as an experiment, a sporting event, a military decision, or a political election—to overestimate one's ability to have foreseen the outcome

Hindsight Bias

400

The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives

Groupthink
500

A psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause

Somatic Symptom Disorder

500

The effect where one incorporates misleading information into one’s memory of an event.

Misinformation Effect

500

Law that states that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely

Law of Effect

500

Group in an experiment used to establish a cause-and-effect relationship by isolating the effect of an independent variable

Control Group

500

The theory that states that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame

Scapegoat Theory

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