Sensation
This term describes the minimum level of stimulation needed for a stimulus to be detected at least 50% of the time.
What is the absolute threshold?
This effect describes how people can focus on one conversation in a noisy room while still noticing when their name is mentioned.
What is the cocktail party effect?
This psychometric principle ensures that a test is administered under the same conditions, with consistent procedures, allowing for fair comparisons across test-takers.
What is standardization?
This parenting style is characterized by high demands and low responsiveness, with caregivers enforcing strict rules and expectations without providing much warmth or flexibility.
What is authoritarian parenting?
This theory suggests that people engage in behaviors to lessen internal tension caused by unmet physiological needs, aiming to return to a balanced state.
What is drive-reduction theory?
This is the only sense not processed first in the thalamus.
What is smell?
This Gestalt principle explains why we perceive elements that are close to each other as belonging to the same group.
What is proximity?
If a test does not produce consistent results when taken multiple times, it is lacking this key psychometric principle.
What is reliability?
Exposure to traumatic events in early life, known as these, can impact relationships and long-term development, with sociocultural differences influencing their definition and effects.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
This theory argues that motivation is driven by the need for novel and varied experiences.
What is sensation-seeking theory?
According to this theory, blue, green, and red cones are used to detect various wavelengths.
What is the trichromatic theory
According to Gestalt psychology, this principle explains why we tend to perceive incomplete figures as whole by mentally filling in missing parts.
What is closure?
This term, proposed by Charles Spearman, refers to a single underlying intelligence factor that influences cognitive performance across different tasks.
What is the g factor (general intelligence)?
This form of adolescent egocentrism leads teenagers to believe that they are constantly being watched and judged by others, often resulting in heightened self-consciousness.
What is the imaginary audience?
This theory posits that people are motivated by a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic factors, with a focus on the role of rewards in driving behavior.
What is self-determination theory?
Place theory, frequency theory, and volley theory all attempt to explain how we perceive this aspect of sound.
What is pitch?
This depth cue occurs when parallel lines appear to meet as they recede into the distance.
What is linear perspective?
This phenomenon describes the worldwide increase in IQ scores over time, likely due to factors like improved education, healthcare, and nutrition.
What is the Flynn Effect?
This attachment style, often observed in infants, is characterized by distress when a caregiver leaves and comfort upon their return.
What is secure attachment?
This theory suggests that people are driven by the need to resolve problems that arise from making choices, such as approach-approach, avoidance-avoidance, and approach-avoidance.
What is Lewin's motivational conflicts theory?
This is the name for the taste of fat.
What is oleogustus?
This binocular depth cue relies on the brain merging the slightly different images from each eye to create depth perception
What is convergence?
A test is considered this if it can help the test-taker understand how well they will perform on a similar task in the future.
What is predictive validity?
In Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, this system involves the connections and interactions between the different groups in an individual's microsystem, like the relationship between family and school.
What is the mesosystem?
These are all parts of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
What are physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization?