| A | B |
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| Hindsight Bias | I knew it all along phenomenon. Tendency to exaggerate ones ability to have foreseen how something would turn out after learning the outcome. |
| Cerebellum | it coordinates voluntary movement. All lower brain functions require no conscious effort. |
| Informational Social influence | we tend to accept others opinions, especially when we admire them. |
| Normative Social influence | we are sensitive to social norms and tend to comply so we do not stand out. |
| Hierarchies | organizing information in order of importantance, or board to narrow subjects, or into groups. |
| Imprinting | A baby instantly creates the neural networks needed to remember their cargivers smell, and sound. |
| FAS | Alchol reaches the fetus through the bloodstream and depresses CNS function causing mental retardation and physical abnormalities. |
| Cross-sectional Studies | people of various ages are tested at the same time. Studies on intelligence have shown that intelligence declines with age. |
| Generalization | Once a response has been conditioned to a certain Condtion Stimulus other similar stimuli created the same Condtion Response. |
| Weber's Law | The difference threshold is not a constant amount, instead it is a proportion of the stimulus. |
| Place Theory | States that the place on the basilar membrane where the most hair cells vibrate determines pitch. Problem- low pitched sounds seem to affect hair cells all over tyhe basilar membrane. |
| Depth Perception | Is the ability to see objects in three dimension. It seems that by the time we are mobile, we have the ability to perceive depth. |
| Circadian Phyths | Is our biological clock which regulates our 24/25 hour cycle. Thinking and memory is at its best during the peak of our circadian rhythm. |
| Insomnia | Persistent problem in falling and staying asleep. Drugs are only quick fixes beacuse their side effects are so great. |
| Narcolepsy | Sleep attacks where suffers at any given time can lapse into REM sleep, usally lasting about 5 mintues. |
| Manifest Content | The story line of your dreams. |
| Latent Content | The symbolism behind the manifest content. Freud believed that the latent content of our dreams is symbolic of our unconscious drives and wishes that would be threatening if expressed directly and in most cases they can be traced back to erotic desires. |
| Age Regression | Recalling childhood events while under hypnosis. Individuals do become childlike but what really happens is that they act like how they believe a child that age would act. |
| Algorithms | Computers. this is when we follow a step by step procedure that guarantees success. (long process) |
| Heurististics | Mental shortcut. Using a rule of thumb strategy to find a solution. Much faster but more prone to mistakes. |
