| A | B |
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| Framing | The way Infromation is presented can affect descions and judgements based off of it |
| Theory X | The belief that all people are lazy and subversient, and are only motivated by money and other materiel rewards |
| Variable-Ratio Schedule | Reinforcment of a response after a unpredictable and varying number of responses |
| Psychological Dependence | A need for a drug to alleviate certain emotions or feelings |
| Accomodation | Modifying our schemas to better accomadate new information |
| Culture | A set of idealolgies, traditions, ideas, attitudes etc. shared by a population that can be passed from generation to generation |
| Electroencephalogram | A measurement of all electrical activity in the brain |
| Savant Syndrome | An individual may have extreme aptitude in one skill but is limited in all other abillities |
| Vestibular Sense | Guided by semi-circular canals attached to the middle ear, this sense uses the head's position to monitor balance and movement |
| Predictive Validity | The mesure of whether a test's accuracy in predicting future behaviors and acheivements |
| Mood-Congruent Memory | Memories are easier to remember when one is in the same state and mood as when the memory was encoded |
| Fluid Intelligence | One's ability to think speedily, logically, and abstractly |
| Latent Content | The purpose or meaning of a dream as symbolised by the Manifest Content |
| Informational Social Influence | An overt influence resulting from one's tendency to easily accept other's opinons as truths |
| Social Exchage Theory | The idea that all behavior is self calculated to have the maxium benifit to self at the minimum cost |
| Parapsychology | Branch of psychology dealing with the paranormal an |
| Morpheme | The smallest unit of meaning in a language |
| Mirror Neurons | Frontlobe neurons that are the basis of observational learning: they fire when certain actions are performed or observed |
| Flashbulb Memory | A very clear memory of a certin event caused by the emotional significance to the person |
| Rods | Receptor cells on the retina that are very numerous and can see in low light, but only detect in black, white and grey |
