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| Structuralism | Focused on the structure of the mind. An introspective school of psychology. |
| Developmental Psychologists | Study changes across a lifetime. |
| Wording Effect | When the question can lead the subject to respond in a particular way. |
| Encoding | Getting information into our long term memories. |
| Mnemonics | Memory aids that help us organize information for easier retrieval through the use of Imagery or games. |
| Mood Congruent Memories | The tendency to be able to recall memories consisted with our moods (eg. Sad memories are more easily found when depressed). |
| Positive Transfer | When new information helps you remember old information. |
| Preoperational Stage | Ages 3-6/7 years. children posses language but cannot make logical links. Lack conservation. |
| Pre-conventional Morality | When we are at a stage of mental development where we are self interested, we act to gain rewards or avoid punishment. |
| Dementia | A substantial loss of brain cells. |
| Fixed-Ratio Schedules | reinforce behavior after a set amount of responses. Highly reinforcing (eg. paycheck after 20 shirts sewn). |
| Absolute Thresholds | The minimum amount of stimulation required to detect a stimuli 50% of the time. |
| Psychological Dependance | When a user depends on a drug as a way of relieving negative emotions, prevalent with stress relieving drugs. |
| Manifest Content | Freud's name for the story line of our dreams. |
| ALPHA waves | Slow brain waves characteristic of a relaxed awake state. |
| Conciousness | Our awareness of ourselves and our Environment. Enables us to reflect and plan. |
| Anorexia Nervosa | An eating disorder characterized by the person depriving their bodies of a lack of food because even though they are unhealthily skinny they perceive themselves as obese. |
| Near Death Experience | Seemingly uniform reports of a tunnel and feeling of euphoria when near death. |
| Circadian Rhythm | Our body's synchronization with the day's 24 hour cycle, how we feel tired as it gets dark ect... |
| REM Sleep | The Stage of sleep closest to Consciousness. |
