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1 / PSYCH 207 Questions with Answers 1.Ablation Removal of cells or tissues, often through surgical means2.Affordance A perceptual property of objects, places, and
events that makes clear what actions or
behavior's on the part of the perceiver are
permitted in the interaction with the object,
place, or event
3.Age differences A possible reason for differences in performance
4.Amnesia Profound impairments in the long-term memory
5.Amygdala An area of brain tissue with extensive connections to
the olfactory system and hypothalamus, thought to be in- volved in mood, feeling, instinct, and short-term memory
6.Anchoring A decision-making heuristic in which final estimates are
heavily influenced by initial value estimates
7.Anterograde am- nesiaLack of memory for events that occur after a brain injury
8.Aphasia A disorder of language, thought to have neurological
causes, in which either language production, language reception, or both are disrupted
9.Artifact Concept pertaining to manufactured or human designed objects
10.Artificial intelli-
genceA branch of computer science concerned with
creating computers that mimic human
performance on cognitive tasks
11.Associtation A connection or link between two units or elements 2 / PSYCH 207 Questions with Answers 12.Attention Cognitive resources, mental effort, or concentration de-
voted to a cognitive process
13.Attention hy- pothesis of au-
tomatizationThe proposal that attention is needed during a learning phase of a new task 3 / PSYCH 207 Questions with Answers 14.Attenuation the- ory
15.Autobiographi-
cal memory
16.Automatic pro- cessing
17.Availability
heuristic
18.Basic level of categoriesA model of attention in which unattended perceptual events are transmitted in weakened form but not blocked completely before being processed for meaning
Memory for events and other information from ones own life
The carrying out of cognitive task with minimal resources. Typically automatic processing occurs without intention, interferes minimally with other cognitive tasks, and may not involve conscious awareness
A strategy in which one estimates the frequency or prob- ability of an event by the ease with which mental oper- ations, such as retrieval of examples or construction of examples, can be carried out
A hypothesized type of concept thought to be at a psycho- logically fundamental level of abstraction
19.Behaviourism A school of psychology that seeks to define
psychological research in terms of observable
measures, emphasizing the scientific study of
behaviour
20.Believability ef-
fect
21.Between-sub-
jects designThe tendency to draw or accept conclusions from
premis- es when the content of the conclusion makes intuitive sense, regardless of the logical necessity
A research paradigm in which different experimental sub- jects participate in different experimental conditions
22.Bias A tendency to think in a certain way or to follow certain 4 / PSYCH 207 Questions with Answers procedures regardless of the facts of the matter
23.Bilingual Describes people who are regularly faced with the task
of attending to one set of labels for objects or methods of expression while simultaneously ignoring labels from their other known language
depending on the language in which they are trying to communicate
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