What is roughly equated with recognition or knowing?
100
Biological Variables
What variables refer to material characteristics of the body and brain that serve to motivate behavior?
100
Social Psychology
What is the branch of psychology concerned with how we interact with others and social phenomena influence us?
100
Perception
What is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment?
100
Cognitive Functions
What is a group of mental processes that includes attention, memory producing and understanding language, learning, reasoning, problem solving, and decision making?
200
Chameleon effect
What is the nonconscious mimicry of the postures, mannerisms, facial expressions, and other behaviors of one’s interaction partners?
200
Psychological Variables
What variables refer to motives and are studied indirectly through measurable indicators?
200
Social Interactions
What helps form our self-concept and perception, according to social psychologists?
200
The perceptual systems of the brain
What enables individuals to see the world around them as stable, even though the sensory information may be incomplete and rapidly varying?
200
Introspection
What is the process of examining the inner feelings of an individual?
300
Dichotic Listening
What is the technique whereby conflicting information is simultaneously presented to the two ears of a subject?
300
Incentives
What are the external stimuli that motivate or induce behavior to occur?
300
Expectation Confirmation
What is the phenomenon in which we ignore unexpected attributes and look for supporting evidence to confirm preexisting beliefs?
300
Sensory modalities
What are the different kinds of sensation such as warmth, sound, and taste?
300
William James
Who was known for his textbook Principles of Psychology?
400
Empericism
What is the philosophical belief that sensory experience is the basis of all knowledge?
400
Incentive Value
What value refers to the attractiveness of an incentive and is based on objective properties like the number or the amount?
400
Social Representations
What are socially shared beliefs?
400
Transduction
What is the process of converting sensory information into neural activity?
400
Aristotle
Who is the first scientist to draw attention the the inner workings of the mind?
500
Habituation
What is the decreased tendency to respond to a stimulus that results from prolonged exposure to that stimulus?
500
Melioration
What term refers to a shift toward an activity that is more lucrative or provides a greater rate of reinforcement?
500
Debriefing
What is the post-experimental explanation of a study to its participants called?
500
Ambiguity
What is the term used to define an object/s having more than one meaning or interpretation?
500
Jean Piaget
Who is the psychologist who studied his own children for the development of his theory of cognitive development?