Sensa & Percep
__________ is the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment.
What is sensation?
Biological growth process, __________, leading to orderly changes in behavior, mostly independent of experience.
What is maturation?
An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior in a given group is a _________.
What is a norm?
A generalized belief about a group of people, or _________, is sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized.
What is a stereotype?
An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting is their _________.
What is personality?
The process by which our brain organizes and interprets sensory information, transforming it into meaningful objects and events is ___________.
What is perception?
The __________ is every external influence, from prenatal nutrition to social support in later life.
What is environment?
A __________ is a perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas.
What is a conflict?
_________ is adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
What is conformity?
According to Freud, our __________ is a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Contemporary psychologists say it is information processing of which we are unaware.
What is the unconscious?
The minimum stimulus, or __________, needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
The genetic transfer of characteristics from parents to off-spring is __________.
What is heredity?
The ability to see objects in three dimensions, __________, allows us to judge distance.
What is depth perception?
A __________ is an unjustifiable and usually negative attitude toward a group and its members.
What is prejudice?
A characteristic pattern of behavior, or __________, is a tendency to feel and act in a certain way.
What is a trait?
__________ is reduced sensitivity in response to constant stimulation.
What is sensory adaptation?
A period early in life when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences is needed for proper development is known as a ___________.
What is a critical period?
__________ is when conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
What are dissociative disorders?
Unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members is __________.
What is discrimination?
According to Maslow, __________ is the motivation to fulfill our potential.
What is self-actualization?
The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts is __________.
What is kinesthetic?
__________ is adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information.
What is accommodation?
The sense of body movement and position, ___________, is also the sense of balance.
What is vestibular sense?
A person shows _________ when they have an unselfish concern for the welfare of others.
What is altruism?
Our __________ is all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, “Who am I?”
What is self-concept?