| A | B |
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| Bulimia Nervosa | An eating disorder characterized by overeating, followed by vomiting, fasting or excessive exercise. |
| content validity | the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest ( liking driving test that samples driving tasks) |
| validity | the extend to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to do. |
| savant syndrom | a condition in which a person limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill. |
| linguistic determinism | whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think. |
| framing | the way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments. |
| serial position effect | our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list. |
| extrinsic motivation | the desire to performe a behaviour due to promised rewards or threats of punishment. |
| cognitive map | a mental representation of the layout of one's environment. |
| fixed-interval schedule | a schedule of reinforcement that reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed. |
| variable-interval schedule | a schedule of reinforcement that reinforces a response at unpredictable time intervals. |
| shaping | a conditioning procedure in which reinforces guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of a desired goal. |
| amphetamines | drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and mood changes |
| dissociation | a split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others. |
| manifest content | according to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream. |
| perceptual adaptation | in vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field. |
| phi phenomenon | an illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession. |
| visual capture | the tendency for vision to dominate the other senses. |
| acuity | the sharpness of vision. |
| autism | a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, and social interaction. |
