Learning and Memory?
Increasing the likelihood that a certain response will occur
Reinforcement
The brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life
Neuroplasticity
Stable, long-term characteristics of a person that influence behavior
Personality
Subconscious biases that lead us to associate certain groups with positive or negative attributes
Implicit bias
Type of therapy that says way we think about a situation can affect our feelings and behavior
Cognitive behavior therapy (also acceptable: CBT)
Better long-term retention with smaller blocks of studying over a longer period of time
Spacing Effect
Characteristic of the brain that refers to how one side of the body is controlled by the opposite hemisphere of the brain
Contralateralization
Affective responses characterized by changes in behavior, experience, or physiology
Emotions
Beliefs and attitudes at the conscious level that we can directly self-report
Explicit bias
Therapy that focuses on resolving interpersonal problems to treat mood disorders
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (also acceptable: IPT)
Method of rewarding successive approximations of desired behavior
Shaping
The part of the brain that controls voluntary and involuntary motor movements
Cerebellum
Big 5 personality trait related to negative emotionality
Neuroticism
Postponing immediate satisfaction for sake of long-term consequences
Delayed gratification
Therapy microskill that involves mirroring or labeling a client's emotional state
Reflect affect
The process of transforming a variable from an abstract concept to a specific definition
Operationalizing
Theory that says language influences or determines our thoughts
Sapir-Wharf (Also acceptable: Linguistic Relativity)
Statistical test for difference between two means
T-test
Social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group
Conformity
Technique that involves examining and revising a negative automatic thought
Finding that attempting to retrieve information from memory leads to better learning than just repeating
Testing Effect
Perceptual illusion that demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception
McGurk Effect
Theory that says emotions are not hardwired but are interpretations of our internal experiences and environment
Theory of Constructed Emotion
Excessive tendency to seek concurrence among group members
Groupthink
Theory that explains abnormal psychology as an interaction between biological and environmental factors
Diathesis-stress model