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| 321143925 | Spotlight effect | overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us). | |
| 321143926 | Self-serving bias | a readiness to perceive oneself favorably | |
| 321143927 | Object Permanence | the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived | |
| 321143928 | Conservation | the principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects | |
| 321143931 | Functional fixedness | the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving | |
| 321143932 | Representative heuristic | judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevant information | |
| 321143933 | Availability heuristic | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common | |
| 321143936 | Proactive interference | (Forward acting interference) disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information | |
| 321143937 | Retroactive interference | (Backward acting interference) disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information | |
| 321143938 | Misinformation effect | incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event | |
| 321143939 | Source amnesia | attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined | |
| 321143940 | Hypnosis | a social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings thoughts or behaviors will spontaneously occur | |
| 321143941 | Opiates | opium and its derivatives, (such as morphine and heroin); they depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety | |
| 321143942 | Hallucinogens | psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, that distort perception and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input | |
| 321143943 | Absolute threshold | minimal amount of energy required to produce any sensation, 50 percent of the time | |
| 321143944 | Difference threshold | Just Noticeable Difference (JND); the smallest change in stimulation that you can detect 50% of the time; differs from one person to the other (and from moment to moment); tells us the flexibility of sensory systems | |
| 321143947 | Sensory adaptation | Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation. | |
| 321143949 | Hindsight Bias | The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it | |
| 321143950 | Double Blind Procedure | An experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo. Commonly used in drug-evaluation studies | |
| 322359049 | Random Assignment | Assigning participants to experimental and control conditions by chance ,thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups |
