The Ones I Got Wrong - Psych

Accommodation

The tendency to see stimuli in terms of preexisting schemas.

Illusory correlation

Perceiving a relationship where one does not exist.

Social facilitation

The improved performance on tasks when others are present.

The foot-in-the-door technique

A technique suggesting that saying yes to a small request (a small shock) makes it more likely that someone will agree with a future, larger request (a strong shock).

The door-in-the-face technique

A technique suggesting that declining a big request makes it more likely that someone will say yes to a future, smaller request.

Anchoring

A heuristic where one starts with a reference point and makes judgments from that point.

Incentive theory

A theory stating that outside factors drive people’s behavior.

Assimilation

Forcing objects to fit existing schemas rather than adapting schemas to fit the new information.

Neurotransmitter most closely related to Parkinson’s

Parkinson’s disease is linked to low levels or falling levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine.

Sympathetic nervous system

Fight or flight.

Parasympathetic nervous system

Rest and digest.

Self-efficacy

One’s sense of competence in a specific domain.

Flynn Effect

A theory suggesting that each succeeding generation tends to have a higher IQ score than the previous one.

Lewis Terman’s studies of gifted children indicated that:

they generally demonstrate above-average emotional stability and social satisfaction in adulthood.

Cross-sequential

A type of research design combining longitudinal and cross-sectional designs.

Cross-sectional

A type of research design in which you collect data from many different individuals at a single point in time

Rods

Responsible for non-color vision.

Cones

Responsible for color vision.

Perceptual expectancy

A predisposition to perceive things in a certain way.

The Yerkes-Dodson law

A law stating that performance is highest at moderate levels of arousal.