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Psychological Concepts in 7 +/- Words
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ABA Design: treatment introduced, treatment off, treatment on again.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Accommodation: this information does not fit; I'll adjust the structure
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Action Potential: being too positive got me fired.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Animal Cognition: more than mere associations.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Animal Personality: from bold to shy, it's how they roll.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Anthropomorphism: angels, demons, sheep, snakes: they all feel remorse.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Asch's Conformity Experiments: whatever they say goes.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Attention: Watching whatever's playing at the Cartesian Theatre.
-Chris Westbury
Auto-shaping: following the waitress around.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Availability Heuristic: readily accessible information in memory makes judgment.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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Bandura, Albert: huge social psychologist from small Albertan sausage town.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Behavioural Bliss Play: mine is 8 hours work, 16 hours play.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Behaviourism: you are what you do.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Behaviorism: Action justifies belief.
-Chris Westbury
Bestiality: how centaurs are made.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Brain: gets your thinking done.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Brood Parasitism: putting your eggs in someone else's basket.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Bystander Effect: so many people, so little help.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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Category Perception: how our brains call all ducks a duck.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Clever Hans: counting horse; Mr. Ed meets Miss Cleo.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Cognition: Appreciative computer.
-Definition randomly generated by the computer program JanusNode at 8:43:18 PM on Monday, November 28, 1994; contributed by Chris Westbury
Cognitive Dissonance: I eat doughnuts, and eating doughnuts increases my LDL.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Cognitive psychology: you are what you think.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Colour Constancy: day or night, the grass looks green.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Conditioned Taste Aversion: can't eat anymore pizza – blame the tequila.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Conditioned Inhibition: what you thought was going to happen doesn't.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Contour: same until 4th note; American anthem, 3 blind mice.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Cross-cultural Psychology: Art of finding differences between Martian and Venusian
- Ken Ito
Crossing-over: let's exchange information – odd, our numbers are so similar.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
CS-(conditioned inhibitor): what you thought was going to happen won't.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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Dennett, Dan: 'Nothing complicated enough to be interesting has an essence.'
-Edited quote from Dennett's 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea'; Contributed by Chris Westbury
Dishabituation: honk, honk, honk, BOOM! honk, jump, honk, honk, honk.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Displaced Aggression: another failed exam, another hole in the wall.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Double-blind Study: research done with both eyes shut.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Drug Tolerance: when it just doesn't work as like it use to.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
DSM IV: Today, this is crazy.
-Johwanna Alleyne
Dualism: beasts slave to stimuli, man rules with mind.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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Episodic Memory: March 22, 1994 - stung by a bee at home.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
ERP: If not N100, N400, or P600, then noise.
-Chris Westbury
Evolution: because a backwards dog can't explain it all.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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fMRI: Pretty pictures of oxygen uptake. What's the subtraction?
- Elena Nicoladis
Formaldehyde: crosslinked proteins keep you stiff.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Freud, Sigmund: It turns out that 'neurology' is a dirty word.
-Chris Westbury
Freudian Slip: think one thing, say another.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Functionalism: Whatever thinks like a duck is a duck.
-Chris Westbury
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Gestalt Psychology: WHOLE > W+H+O+L+E.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Glial Cells: more than mere glue.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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Habituation: horn, jump, horn, jump, horn, jump, horn, nothing.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Humanistic Psychology: you are what you feel.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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Imprinting: a goose's "mother" isn't always a goose.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Inattentional blindness: not seeing the gorilla.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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Jung, Carl: Psyche as mere flesh? Have you never lived?
-Chris Westbury
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Landmark Navigation: left at subway, right at firestation, next to Timmy's.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Learned Helplessness: it's no use, nothing I do makes any difference.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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Matching Law: I'll ask for as much as I can get.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Meehl, Paul: The math makes more sense than you do.
-Chris Westbury
Methodological solipsism: Fodor exists, but possibly no one else does.
-Chris Westbury
Mirror Neuron: in the brain, monkey see = monkey do.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Mnemonic Device: My Name Evokes Memory Often; Normally Includes Creative Device.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Modal Action Pattern: everyone's the same, once you start, you can't stop!
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Musical Tension: All of us notes are the same distance apart.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Myelinated Axon: being fatter makes me faster.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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Negative Contrast Affect: This is great? My old one was way better!
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Nissl Stain: cell exposure, masked axons and dendrites; the cell feels blue.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Non-linearity: What goes up might come down.
-Chris Westbury
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Octave Generalization: how Barney and kids sing the same note.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Ontogenetic Ritualization: social phenomenon similar/"superior" to associate learning without generalization
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Operant Response: press the button, get in the elevator.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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Pavlov, Ivan: bell rings, dog drools, Nobel Prize.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Photosynthesis: CO2 plus H2O – that's the way plants will grow!
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Piaget, Jean: Kant wrong: Rational thought emerges from action and perception.
- Elena Nicoladis
Pineal Gland: I'm not your seat, I make melatonin!
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Placebo: sugar heals.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Premak Principle: will work if fun follows but not the reverse.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Prospective Memory: 6 remain; 1,2,3,4,5,6.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Psychoanalysis: "The mental illness it purports to cure".
-Karl Kraus; contributed by Chris Westbury
Psycholinguistics: Studying single letters now. Single words were too complicated.
-Chris Westbury
Psychology as a Natural Science: The Meaning of Life – A Thermodynamic Singularity.
To read full article, click here.
- Charles Beck
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Recursion: See definition of 'Recursion'.
-Old geek joke; contributed by Chris Westbury
Reductionism: Ask a physicist.
-Chris Westbury
REM sleep: "everybody hurts" band + catching z's
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Repression: You don't remember that you don't remember.
-Karsten Loepelmann
Retrospective memory: 6 remain; 6,5,4,3,2,1.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Rorschach Test: What's in the ink?
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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Saltatory Conduction: jumping along is a fast way to travel.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Sensations: Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touch, seeing dead people?
-Karsten Loepelmann
Sexual Dimorphism: pink is for girls, blue is for boys.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Stanford Prison Experiment: 1971 experiment now out on DVD.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Statistics: Things are the same or different, probably.
-Chris Westbury
Stimulus Control: I've only got eyes for you.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Stroop Task: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
-Johwanna Alleyne
Stroop Test: green in purple's clothing.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Supernormal Stimuli: bigger is better... even if it's just not normal.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Synaptic Cleft: neither presynaptic nor postsynaptic.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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Timbre: pitch and amplitude's leftovers.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Tinbergen, Nikolaas: ultimate or proximate, that mechanism is supernormal.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Transcendent Difference: princess>flower>pea, therefore princess>pea.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
Transfer-of-Control (experiment): do as my state does when it appears.
-Chris Sturdy lab (Avey, Avis, Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Sturdy)
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Visual Illusions: Don't believe everything that you see.
-Karsten Loepelmann
von Frisch, Karl: Honey! I discovered a beeutiful dance!
- Lisa Smithson
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Language is a game played without rules.
-Chris Westbury
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