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| Manifest Content | According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream. |
| REM Rebound | The tendancy for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprevation (created by repeated awakenings during REM sleep) |
| Narcolepsy | A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times. |
| Operant Conditioning | Type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher. |
| Mirror Neurons | Frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so. The brain's mirroring of another's action may enable imitation, language learning, and empathy. |
| Deindividuation | Loss of self-awareness and self-restraint in group situations; act differently in a group because liability of actions are on the group, not the individual. |
| Bottom-Up Processing | Analysis that begins with the senses receptors and works up to the brains integration of sensory information. |
| Figure Ground | The organization of the visual field into objects (figure) that stand out from the surroundings (ground). |
| PHI Phenomenon | Lights that appear to move when adjacent lights blink on and off in succession. |
| Frequency Theory | The rate of nerve impulses travelling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone. |
| Gate Control Theory | The spinal cord contains neuralogical "gates" that block pain signals to the brain. |
| Kinesthesis | The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts. |
| Accomodation | The eyes change in curvature to focus on near or far objects on the retina. |
| Parallel Processing | Processing several things at once, such as colour, motion, form, and depth. |
| Subliminal | Below one's absolute threshold for conscious awareness. |
| Webers Law | The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage rather than a constant minimum amount. |
| Hue | The dimension of colour, determined by wavelength. |
| Fundamental Attribution Error | Tendency for observers of people's behaviour to underestimate the impact of situations and overestimate impact of personal disposition. |
| Foot In The Door Phenomenon | Tendency when people agree to a small favour, they will be more likely to comply to a larger one after. |
| Normative Social Influence | Influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval. |
