| A | B |
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| Assimilation | Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas |
| Cognition | All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |
| Framing | The way Infromation is presented can affect descions and judgements based off of it |
| Narcolepsy | A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks |
| Clinical Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders |
| Theory X | The belief that all people are lazy and subversient, and are only motivated by money and other materiel rewards |
| Illusory Correlation | The perception of a relationship where none exists |
| Psychological Dependence | A need for a drug to alleviate certain emotions or feelings |
| Alpha Waves | The relatively slow brain waves of a related awake state |
| Perceptual adaptation | In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field. |
| Savant Syndrome | An individual may have extreme aptitude in one skill but is limited in all other abillities |
| Thalamus | The brain's sensory switchboard, located on top of the brainstem |
| Punishment | An event that decreases the behavior that it follows |
| Mental Age | A measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet |
| Kinesthesis | System for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts |
| Reflex | A simple, automatic, inborn response to a sensory stimulus, such as the knee-jerk response |
| Vestibular Sense | Guided by semi-circular canals attached to the middle ear, this sense uses the head's position to monitor balance and movement |
| Neurotransmitters | Chemical messengers that traverse the synaptic gaps between neurons. |
| Mood-Congruent Memory | Memories are easier to remember when one is in the same state and mood as when the memory was encoded |
| Delta Waves | The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep |
