the area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and processes body touch and movement sensations
What is the sensory cortex?
100
the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language.
What is semantics?
100
encoding that requires attention and conscious effort
What is effortful processing?
100
the perception that you control your own fate
What is internal locus of control?
100
the defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness
What is repression?
200
the portion of the cerebral cortex lying roughly above the ears
What is the temporal lobes?
200
the stage at about 4 months when an infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language
What is the babbling stage?
200
the tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice
What is the spacing effect?
200
overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders
What is the spotlight effect?
200
the defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated
What is regression?
300
the lima bean sized neural clusters in the limbic system; linked to emotion
What is the amygdala?
300
early speech when a child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs
What is telegraphic speech?
300
organizing items into familiar, manageable units
What is chunking?
300
according to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential
What is self-actualization?
300
defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful memories
What is denial?
400
the brain's sensory switchboard located on the top of the brainstem
What is the thalamus?
400
the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
What is syntax?
400
the tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list
What is the serial position effect?
400
according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person
What is unconditional positive regard?
400
psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people re-channel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities
What is sublimation?
500
the term for the brain's ability to modify itself after some types of damage
What is plasticity?
500
in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning
What is a morpheme?
500
when new learning disrupts the ability to recall old information
What is retroactive interference?
500
the most widely used projective test, a set of inkblots, designed to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations
What is the Rorschach inkblot test?
500
the defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites. People express feelings that are the opposite of their anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings.