psych 101-125
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- galvanic skin response
- physiological measure of skin's ability to conduct electricity; used in polygraph
- ganglia
- bundles of neurons found outside of brain and spinal cord
- Gansfield Procedure
- exp. deisgn lets people read others minds
- Gate Control Theory of Pain
- why and how a person can control amount of pain
- generalizable
- when a study can be generalized to a larger population
- genotype
- genetoc coding
- gestalt theory
- the idea that human experience is best understood when we look at the big picture
- glial cells
- neural helper cells;move neurons, feed them, cary away debris
- group therapy
- cheaper, keep members honest, other victims help
- groupthink
- individuals in a group are uncomfortable disagreeing, so a bad decision is made
- gustatory sense
- sense of taste
- habituation
- when you decrease your responsiveness to a repeated stimulus leading to boredom
- Hans Seyle's General Adaptation Response
- general reaction to stress: Alarm, Resistance, exhaustion
- harlow
- babys prefer warm mother to one with food
- Hawthorne Effect
- one effective way to increase worker productivity is pay more attention to them
- heuristics
- quick and easy strategoes we employ to make quick and easy decisions: hindsight bias, availibility, fixation, overconfidence
- Abraham Maslow
- Hierarchy of needs
- high self motivators, low self motivators
- real conscious about how they come across to people, care less about other people
- hindsight bias
- after the fact, "i knew it all along"
- histogram
- bar graph
- homeostasis
- body's balance
- Howard Gardner
- seven kinds of intelligence
- Hue
- color
- hybrid
- offspring of two different species
- Role Enactment theory; dissociation theory
- hypnotized person acting out role suggested by hynotherapist, hypnosis is a dissociation in which mind splits allowing one part to not experience pain