When people recall events more positively than they judged them at the time they occurred.
What is rosy retrospection?
100
Which measure of variation is most affected by extreme scores?
What is range?
100
A procedural or non-declarative memory, where retention is independent of conscious recollection.
What is an implicit memory?
100
Neurons are to nervous system as hormones are to _____ system.
What is the endocrine system?
100
The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving.
What is functional fixedness?
200
When the senses become joined; as in one sensation (hearing sound) produces another (such as seeing color).
What is synaesthesia?
200
Repeating an earlier research study.
What is replication?
200
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood.
What is mood congruent memory?
200
Researchers have identified actual receptors for which skin sensation?
What is pressure?
200
The type of molecule that may be similar enough to a neurotransmitter to bind to its receptor and mimic its effects.
What is an agonist?
300
Information processing guided by higher level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations.
What is top-down processing?
300
A scatterplot showing dots all over the area in no recognizable form or direction represents _____.
What is no relationship / no correlation?
300
The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of the time. (the just noticeable difference)
What is difference threshold?
300
The nervous system made up of sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
300
Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event.
What is the misinformation effect?
400
The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.
What is retroactive interference?
400
A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.
What is an algorithm?
400
In an experiment, a gorilla jumped across a basketball court in the middle of people tossing a basketball. Participants in the experiment did not notice the gorilla and were unaware they had missed something in the viewing. This represents ___________.
What is inattentional blindness?
400
The most influential endocrine gland which regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands.
What is the pituitary gland?
400
A monocular depth cue where parallel lines, such as railroad tracks, appear to converge with distance. The more they converge, the greater their perceived distance.
What is linear perspective?
500
The brain's ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience.
What is plasticity?
500
If the just-noticeable difference for a 100 ounce weight is 10 ounces, the JND for a 50 ounce weight is ___ ounces.
What is 5 ounces?
500
The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings.
What is figure-ground?
500
The brain structure that provides a major link between the nervous system and the endocrine system.
What is the hypothalamus?
500
Alzheimer's disease is most closely linked to the deterioration of neurons that produce ____.