Methodical procedure that will definitely work, but may take a LONG time.
What are Algorithms?
100
The contribution psychologists make to behavioral medicine.
What is Health Psychology?
100
Getting information into the memory system
What is Encoding?
200
The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system.
What is sensory memory?
200
Memory for items at the end of a list.
What is Recency Effect?
200
Tendency to think of objects only in terms of their usual function.
What is Functional Fixedness?
200
Looks at how our behaviors and mental processes influence.
What is Behavioral Medicine?
200
Type of processing that is superficial and leads to poorer recall.
What is Shallow Processing?
300
Activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten.
What is short-term memory?
300
Tendency to recall best the items at the beginning and end of a list.
What is Serial Position Effect?
300
Using “rules of thumb” or educated guesses to find solutions.
What is Heuristics?
300
People with this type of personality are more vulnerable to stress.
What is Type A Personality?
300
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units.
What is Chunking?
400
The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences.
What is long-term memory?
400
Memory tricks that combine imagery with organizational devices
What are Mnemonic Devices?
400
Tendency to approach a problem in a way that has worked in the past.
What is Set Effect?
400
Branch of behavioral medicine focused on how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes influence the immune system.
What is Psychoneuroimmunology?
400
Explanation for phenomenon where retrieval is best if it occurs in the same situation in which encoding occurred.
What is Context Effect?
500
Forgetting as a result of physical or psychological trauma that occurs after the traumatic incident.
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
500
What you've learned in the past interferes with the retrieval of new information.
What is Proactive Interference?
500
Judging the likelihood of something in terms of how well it seems to represent, or match, a particular prototype.
What is Representativeness Heuristic?
500
Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
500
An increase in a cell’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation.