Memory & Thinking
This type of memory can hold information for a few seconds to a couple of minutes and is often compared to a computer's RAM.
What is short-term memory?
This term refers to adjusting one's behavior or thinking to match those of others.
What is conformity?
This term refers to a positive or negative response to an environmental stimulus.
What is emotion?
This test, known for its use of ambiguous black images, is designed to uncover underlying thoughts and feelings.
What is the Rorschach inkblot test?
This term refers to a mental disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, loss, and hopelessness.
What is depression?
This type of memory is responsible for storing factual knowledge and information, like knowing that Paris is the capital of France
What is semantic memory?
This phenomenon describes the decreased likelihood of helping a stranger in an emergency situation when other people are present.
What is the bystander effect/apathy?
This term refers to the ability to understand and manage one's own emotions, as well as recognize and influence the emotions of others.
What is emotional intelligence?
This personality trait, part of the Big Five model, involves being organized, diligent, and responsible.
What is conscientiousness?
This term describes an irrational and intense fear of specific objects or situations.
What is a phobia?
This effect, named after a famous psychologist, describes the tendency to better remember information presented at the beginning of a list.
This concept explains why we are more likely to attribute our own behavior to situational factors but others' behavior to their personality.
What is fundamental attribution error?
This term describes motivation that comes from within an individual rather than from external rewards.
What is intrinsic motivation?
According to psychoanalytic theory, the structure of personality is made up of these three elements.
What is the id, the ego and the superego?
This type of therapy focuses on changing maladaptive thought patterns.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
This term describes a mental shortcut that allows people to solve problems and make judgments quickly and efficiently but can lead to systematic errors or biases.
What is a heuristic?
This theory suggests that we reduce discomfort by changing our attitudes or behaviors to be more consistent with each other.
What is cognitive dissonance theory?
This theory, proposed by Abraham Maslow, categorizes human needs into a five tier pyramid.
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
These are unconscious strategies whereby people protect themselves from anxious thoughts or feelings.
What are defense mechanisms?
This severe mental disorder is characterized by disturbances in thinking, perception, and behavior, such as delusions and hallucinations.
What is schizophrenia?
This phenomenon occurs when old information interferes with the recall of new information.
What is proactive interference?
This is a process where people lose their sense of socialized individual identity and resort to unsocialized and anti-social behavior.
What is deindividuation?
This hypothesis refers to the idea that our facial expressions can influence and even generate emotions.
What is facial feedback?
This concept, proposed by Albert Bandura, states that personality is shaped by the interaction between an individual's traits, their environment, and their behavior.
What is reciprocal determinism?
This disorder is characterized by alternating periods of depression and mania.
What is bipolar disorder?