Neurons and Nonsense
The likelihood for you to develop a disease based on it running in your family
What is genetic predisposition
Your best mental image or example of a category
What is, Prototypes
The ability to distinguish the difference between a learned stimulus and stimuli that has no conditioning effect
What is, Stimulus Discrimination
A person's way or style of explaining events
What is, Explanatory Style
The concept of the body's adaptive responses to stress in three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
What is, General Adaptation Syndrome
The connecting "bridge" of neural fibers between your brain hemispheres
What is Corpus Callosum
The idea that testing yourself on known information and retrieving it enhances your memory better than simply rereading information
What is, Testing Effect
The tendency for animals to revert to instinctive behaviors which interfere with conditioned behaviors and learning
What is, Instinctive Drift
What is, Social Facilitation
A system used by the World Health Organization for classifying psychological disorders
What is, International Classification of Mental Disorders (ICD)
The hemispheres of the brain control the opposite side of the body
What is Contralateral Hemispheric Organization
The observed rise in standardized intelligence test scores over time
Learning the consequences for actions through observing others either be rewarded or punished for that action
What is, Vicarious Conditioning
The perception of people outside your own group to be all the same as each other but recognizing your own group to be different and individual
What is, Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
A type of amnesia involving flight from one's home or identity in which someone may forget their original identity
What is, Dissociative Amnesia
The theory that dreams make sense of your brains random neural activity while sleeping
What is, Activation-Synthesis
The memory model suggests that information flows through a series of storage systems
What is, Multi-store Model
The principle that behaviors that receive rewards will most likely increase and behaviors that receive punishment will most likely decrease
What is, The Law of Effect
The tendency to lack restraint of certain impulses without considering the consequences, often seen in high sensation-seekers
What is, Disinhibition
The disorder in which a person experiences symptoms of intense emotional reactions when upset, including screaming, shouting uncontrollably, trembling, and other extreme reactions
What is, Ataque de Nervios
A neurotransmitter involved in muscle contraction, learning and memory, known as a "muscle mover"
What is, Acetycholine
The memory that uses your past knowledge and expectations to fill in missing detail "gaps" of your memories
What is, Constructive Memory
The study of meaning or the set of rules by which we derive meaning from words, sentences, and morphemes
What is, Semantics
The theory that proposes exhibiting happiness predisposes us to think clearer and more openly, allowing us to consider solutions or "the big picture" that may have been overlooked beforehand
What is, Broaden-and-Build Theory of Emotion
A type of therapy that takes a cognitive-behavioral approach, emphasizing the psychosocial aspects of treatment and focusing on the synthesis of opposites
"balance focused therapy"
What is, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)