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The person who said “a cigar is just a cigar”
Who is Freud?
100
An individual's incorporation of new information into existing knowledge
What is assimilation?
100
Part of the brain at the top of the spinal cord
What is the brain stem?
100
A method of recording neural activity that is detected by electrodes.
What is an EEG?
100
Thinking about thinking
What is metacognition?
200
A brief change in electrical voltage that occurs between the outside and inside of an axon when a neuron is stimulated
What is action potential?
200
An individual's behavioral style and characteristic way of responding (biological basis).
What is temperament?
200
A detailed rich description of an individual being treated or studies.
What is a case study?
200
Feeling more positive toward something simply because you've encountered it before
What is the familiarity effect?
200
Blocking or distorting unwanted memories
What is repression?
300
From the Latin for "about a day," these body rhythms govern cycles of wakefulness and sleep.
What are circadian rhythms?
300
Learning in which a certain action is reinforced or punished, resulting in corresponding increases and decreases in occurrence
What is operant conditioning?
300
The smallest difference in 2 stimuli that a person can detect
What is the difference threshold (or JND)?
300
A rule of thumb that guides actions or problem solving
What is a heuristic?
300
The distress that children develop around 6 months when their primary caregiver leaves
What is separation anxiety?
400
You have vertigo and here's why. Your inner ear, or loop-shaped structures, which help maintain balance, are inflamed
What are semicircular canals?
400
Applying conditioning to teach new behaviors or eliminate bad behaviors.
What is behavior modification?
400
Methods used by the ego to prevent unwanted ideas from entering the consciousness.
What are defense mechanisms?
400
Increasing your liking for something you've worked hard for
What is justification of effort?
400
Successive approximations of a desired response are reinforced in order to teach complex behaviors
What is shaping?
500
Part of a person which consists of unconscious drives
What is the id?
500
A field of psychology that emphasizes observable behavior that can be directly measured
What is behaviorism?
500
A mental category that groups objects, relations, or ideas as having common properties
What is a concept?
500
Specialization of the 2 brain hemispheres
What is lateralization?
500
A condition in which stimulation of one sense evokes another
What is synesthesia?
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