Memory
Storage of brief sensory events like sights, sounds, and tastes.
What is sensory memory?
The smallest unit of meaning in a language.
What are morphemes?
Abysmal conditions in asylums and the discovery of drugs like Thorazine led to _________.
What is deinstitutionalization?
When we compare ourselves to someone who is doing better than us and feel motivated, we are making a ____________ social comparison.
What is an upward social comparison?
When I recall my trip to LA and drinking an overpriced Hailey Bieber smoothie, this is an example of ______ memory.
Loss of memory for events that occurred prior to trauma.
What is retrograde amnesia?
Basing estimates of frequency or probability on the ease of which examples come to mind.
What is the availability heuristic?
A perspective on mental illness that states that someone has to have both an underlying vulnerability, and a stressor in order to develop a psychological disorder.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
When we judge others’ behaviour, we overestimate the impact of their traits like intelligence or personality.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
What is the Monday Morning Quarterback?
The transfer of memories from STM to LTM.
What is memory consolidation?
The more prototypical a crime is, the more people tend to believe it. This is a consequence of the ________.
What is the representativeness heuristic?
The tendency of people to alter their behaviour as a result of group pressure.
What is conformity?
Difficulty conceptualizing that an object typically used for one purpose can be used for another.
What is functional fixedness?
When learning something new interferes with something you’ve previously learned.
What is retroactive interference?
What the judge considers an appropriate sentence may be influenced by what is recommended by the Crown prosecutor. This is an example of ______.
What is anchoring?
Unfit to stand trial
Adhering to instructions from those of higher authority.
What is obedience?
Brief, intense episodes of extreme fear characterized by sweating, dizziness, lightheadedness etc.
What is a panic attack?
Where post-event information alters or becomes incorporated into the original memory.
What is the misinformation effect?
The view that we represent all thinking linguistically.
What is linguistic determinism?
Someone with this psychological disorder may be referred to as psychotic.
What is schizophrenia?
What is the norm of reciprocity?
If a person is suffering from a mental disorder at the time they committed a crime, they may be found ______.