Social Psychology
This is an objective questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess traits.
What is a Personality Inventory?
Mental frameworks built from our past experiences; they are essentially a cognitive structure based on an individual's experiences.
What is a schema?
This part of the brain connects it to the rest of the body.
What is the brain stem?
This reflects the common idea that good is rewarded and bad is punished.
What is the just-world phenomenon?
This is the failure to notice the stimuli in our visual field due to our concentration is being focused elsewhere.
What is inattentional blindness?
This part of the brain receives tactile information from the body and has each part of the body mapped out.
What is the somatosensory cortex?
According to Freud, this part of his theory represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations.
What is the superego?
This is the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
This part of the brain has substructures that help with facial recognition, object recognition, and memory acquisition.
What is the temporal lobe?
This term is used to refer to when others’ expectations of another individual affect the actions of that individual.
What is other-imposed self-fulfilling prophecy?
When a student uses prior knowledge and experiences to interpret information in a quick and efficient manner.
What is Top-down processing?
This part of the brain controls autonomic functions such as hunger, thirst, and body temperature.
What is the hypothalamus?
The tendency to assume that the members of other groups are very similar to each other, particularly in contrast to the assumed diversity of the membership of one’s own group
What is out-group homogeneity?
This is the merging of retinal images by the brain.
What is convergence?
This part of the brain helps with voluntary movement and eye movement.
What is the reticular activating system, RAS?