Social Psychology
The tendency for observers, when analyzing others’ behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate instead the impact of personal disposition.
Fundamental Attribution Error
This is the number of different intelligences Howard Gardner came up with in his Multiple Intelligences theory.
Eight
These are the three primary colors of LIGHT. The retina produces different colors from these three color receptors.
Blue, Red, and Green
The minimum stimulus energy needed to detect a particular stimulus half of the time.
Absolute Threshold
True or False? All psychopaths are violent.
False
When people are influenced by incidental cues. In the situation someone buys a product because their favorite athlete advertises it in a commercial.
Peripheral Route Persuasion
This is the kind of intelligence that Robert Sternberg argued is used for academic purposes, problem-solving, and by schools to predict grades/success.
Analytical Intelligence
Retinal receptor cells that detect fine detail, and give color sensations. We primarily use this in a well-lit room.
Cones
Conversion of one form of energy into another.
Transduction
The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.
Deindividuation
The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request. I.e. American POWs during the Korean War.
Foot-In-The-Door Phenomenon
A test designed to predict a person’s future performance. I.e. SAT, ACT.
Aptitude Test
A ring of muscle tissue that controls the size of the pupil opening.
The iris
Information processing that constructs perceptions from the sensory input by drawing on our experiences and expectations. I.e. Doctor's note.
Top-Down Processing
Psychopaths exhibit lower brain wave activity in this region. This part of the brain is responsible for feeling fear, disgust, anger, and building empathy.
Amygdala
This researcher conducted his famous unethical experiment on the subject of obedience. The experiment involved pressuring the participant into administering fake electric shocks to another individual for answering a question wrong.
Stanley Milgram
Mental Age/Chronological Age x 100
Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
A coiled, bony-filled tube in the inner ear that picks up the sound vibrations from the middle ear and triggers nerve impulses.
The Cochlea
We inherently organize stimuli according to coherent groups such as proximity, similarity, and continuation. These are _______ principles.
Gestalt
Adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. When everyone answers the question with the same answer which prompts the last person to answer the same way, although that last person may have initially answered differently.
Conformity
The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent. I.e. Your favorite subject is physics, but write psychology in a paper for a better grade in my class.
Cognitive Dissonance
1.Perceiving emotions
2.Understanding emotions
3.Managing emotions
4.Using emotions to enable adaptive or creative thinking
These are the four components of this kind of intelligence.
Emotional Intelligence
These are the five basic tastes;
1. Sweet
2. Salty
3. Sour
4. Bitter
5. ______
Umami
Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change. I.e. Seeing two balls with different backgrounds, one the size as a brick, the other the size of a tunnel.
Perceptual Constancy
1. Standardization
2. Reliability
3. Validity
These are the three principles of _____ construction.
Test