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| 9170178208 | Cocktail Party Effect | Phenomenon where in a group we can focus on one conversation in a large group |  | 0 |
| 9170179277 | Conditioned Stimulus | A stimulus that elicits a response only after learning has taken place |  | 1 |
| 9170179278 | Conformity | Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. |  | 2 |
| 9170179279 | Critical Period | An interval during which certain kinds of growth must occur if development is to proceed normally |  | 3 |
| 9170181584 | Deindividuation | In groups or crowds, the loss of awareness of one's own individuality; Individuals behave irrationally when there is less chance of being personally identified |  | 4 |
| 9170182693 | Divergent Thinking | Thinking that produces many solutions to the same problem |  | 5 |
| 9170182694 | Endorphins | "morphine within"--natural, opiate like neurotransmitters linked to pain control and to pleasure. |  | 6 |
| 9170184015 | Extrinsic Motivation | Motivation that involves external incentives such as rewards and punishments. |  | 7 |
| 9170184027 | Figure Ground | The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings |  | 8 |
| 9170186588 | Fluid Intelligence | One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood. |  | 9 |
| 9170186589 | Group Polarization | Tendency of group discussion to strengthen the dominant positions held by individual group members |  | 10 |
| 9170189458 | Introversion | A personality descriptor indicating the quiet and reserved nature of some individuals. |  | 11 |
| 9170191030 | James-Lange Theory of Emotion | Experience of emotion is awareness of physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli |  | 12 |
| 9170191031 | Mueller-Lyer Illusion | occurs because we rely on size cues from previous experience with corners and rooms |  | 13 |
| 9170192694 | Occipital Lope | located near the posterior region of the cerebral cortex, near the back of the skull. It is the primary visual processing center of the brain |  | 14 |
| 9170193997 | Proactive Interference | Previously held knowledge prevents successful retrieval of more newly learned information. |  | 15 |
| 9170193998 | Procedural Memory | A division of LTM that stores memories for how things are done; Memory of learned skills that does not require conscious recollection |  | 16 |
| 9170193999 | Punishment | An event that follows a response that weakens or suppresses the tendency to make that response. |  | 17 |
| 9170196600 | Refractory Period (neurons) | the time during which another stimulus given to the neuron (no matter how strong) will not lead to a second action potential |  | 18 |
| 9170196601 | Sound Localization | ability to ID location of detected sound in direction and distance |  | 19 |
| 9170198498 | Stroboscopic Motion | occurs when continuous motion is represented by a series of short or instantaneous samples |  | 20 |
| 9170201126 | Sympathetic Nervous System | The division of the autonomic nervous system that arouses the body, mobilizing its energy; "fight or flight" response |  | 21 |
| 9170201344 | Unconditioned Stimulus | The stimulus in a stimulus-response chain that is naturally occurring as opposed to learned. (food [US] --> salivation [UR]). |  | 22 |
| 9170206024 | Vestibular System | the body's system of mechanisms that maintain the body's equilibrium or sense of spatial orientation and balance in relation to gravity while standing, walking or sitting. The majority of this system is located within the mechanisms of the inner ear, namely the cochlea and semicircular canals |  | 23 |
