| A | B |
|---|
| Hindsight Bias | Tendency to exaggerate ones ability to have forseen how something would turn out after the outcome |
| End Bulbs | Little bubbles at the end of the axons which contain neurotransmitters |
| Action Potential | Neural impulse that travels down the axon |
| Endorphins | Bodies natural painkiller |
| Attribution Theory | looks at how we explain our behavior and the behavior of others |
| Fundamental attribution error | People who have a good lifestyle tend to justify why others do not due to their disposition |
| Spacing effect | We retain information better when our rehearsal is spaced over time |
| Proactive Interference | Occurs when something you learnt earlier disrupts the recall of something you experience later |
| Authoritarian | impose rules and expect obedience |
| Authoritative | Inforce rules but also explain the rules |
| Reinforcement | Anthing that serves to increase the behavior |
| Overjustification | Rewarding behavior already enjoyed may cause the behavior to lose its intrinsic interest |
| Feature detectors | Nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features in the scene, such as shape, angle or movement |
| Cocktail party effect | the ability to attend selectively to only one voice among many |
| Context effects | One stimulus can trigger different perceptions depending on context |
| Framing | How an issue is presented can affect our decisions and judgments |
| Manifest Content | The story line of your dream |
| Theory X | the belief that people are basically lazy |
| Theory Y | People are intrinsically motivated to work and are motivated by more than money, they seek self esteem and fufillment |
| Flynn effect | Performance(intelligence) as a population is increasing |
