Memory
This is the encoding of details like time, space, frequency, and the meaning of words.
What is automatic processing?
This refers to the way sensory information is organized, interpreted, and consciously experienced.
This is the study of how workers interact with the tools of work and how to design those tools to optimize workers’ productivity, safety, and health.
What is human factors psychology?
This is a research design in which data-gathering is administered repeatedly over an extended period of time.
what is Longitudinal research?
These skills focus on the muscles in our fingers, toes, and eyes, and enable coordination of small actions (e.g., grasping a toy, writing with a pencil, and using a spoon).
What are fine motor skills?
This paradigm says that after exposure to additional and possibly inaccurate information, a person may misremember the original event.
What is the misinformation effect paradigm?
We often don’t perceive stimuli that remain relatively constant over prolonged periods of time.
What is sensory adaptation?
This is the subfield of psychology devoted to understanding the importance of psychological influences on health, illness, and how people respond when they become ill.
What is health psychology?
This is a number from -1 to +1 that indicates the strength and direction of the relationship between variables.
What is a correlation coefficient?
In this attachment style, the attachment figure is used as a secure base to explore the environment and is sought out in times of stress.
What is secure attachment?
There are two types of interference, proactive: when old information hinders the recall of newly learned information and this type.
Retroactive interference happens when information learned more recently hinders the recall of older information.
This is is the failure to notice something that is completely visible because the person was actively attending to something else and did not pay attention to other things.
What is inattentional blindness?
This is a state marked by relatively low levels of physical activity and reduced sensory awareness that is distinct from periods of rest that occur during wakefulness.
What is sleep?
The most basic experimental design involves two groups: the control group and this group.
What is the experimental group?
This term refers to innate traits that influence how one thinks, behaves, and reacts with the environment.
What is temperament?
This type of memory is an exceptionally clear recollection of an important event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
This viewpoint says brain creates a perception that is more than simply the sum of available sensory inputs, and it does so in predictable ways.
What is Gestalt psychology?
This is a very small space between two neurons and is an important site where communication between neurons occurs.
This effect occurs when people's expectations or beliefs influence or determine their experience in a given situation.
What is the placebo effect?
In this state, children understand concrete events and analogies logically and can perform arithmetical operations.
What is Piaget's concrete operational stage?
These memories are those we consciously try to remember, recall, and report.
What are explicit memories?
These vision cues rely on the use of both eyes.
What are binocular cues?
This theory sees intelligence as comprised of three parts: practical, creative, and analytical intelligence.
What is the triarchic theory of intelligence?
This variable is what the researcher measures to see how much effect the independent variable had.
What is the dependent variable?
In this process, we learn by watching others and then imitating, or modeling, what they do or say.
What is observational learning?