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Hindsight Bias   show
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show is the phenomenon of perceiving a relationship between variables (typically people, events, or behaviors) even when no such relationship exists.  
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Scatter Plots   show
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show the probability of some result from a statistical test occurring by chance  
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Personal Space   show
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show is a set of expectations held by society about the ways in which men and women are supposed to behave based on their gender.  
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show the branch of neuroscience that studies the biological foundations of mental phenomena  
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show is the event in which an individual fails to recognize an unexpected stimulus that is in plain sight.  
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Night Terrors   show
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show The increase in frequency, duration and depth of REM sleep after periods of sleep deprivation.  
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show an unusual experience taking place on the brink of death and recounted by a person after recovery, typically an out-of-body experience or a vision of a tunnel of light.  
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Primary Sex Characteristics   show
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Secondary sex characteristics   show
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Cross-sectional Study   show
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Longitudinal Study   show
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Place Theory   show
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show The theory that a tone produces a rate of vibration in the basilar membrane equal to its frequency, with the result that pitch can be coded by the frequency of the neural response.  
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Kinesthesis   show
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show the sense that allows an organism to sense body movement, direction, and acceleration, and to attain and maintain postural equilibrium and balance  
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Phi phenomenon   show
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Parapsychology   show
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Associative learning   show
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Higher Order Conditioning   show
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show is a mental representation of the layout of one's environment  
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Imagery   show
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Mood-congruent memory   show
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show A memory bias that occurs when misinformation affects people's reports of their own memory  
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Source Amnesia   show
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Belief Perseverance   show
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show the quality or ability of having such direct perception or quick insight.  
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show s speech during the two-word stage of language acquisition in children, which is laconic and efficient.  
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show the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or injury of the brain.  
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Linguistic determinism   show
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Factor analysis   show
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show is the ability to identify, assess, and control the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups. Controversial on whether it is actual intelligence.  
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show refers to being at risk of confirming, as self-characteristic, a negative stereotype about one's group.  
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Feel-good, do-good phenomenon   show
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Relative deprivation   show
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Self-concept   show
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show attitudes and attitude change, stereotyping and prejudice, decision-making, the self-concept, social communication and influence, and intergroup discrimination.  
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show is the theory set forth by psychologist Albert Bandura that a person's behavior both influences and is influenced by personal factors and the social environment  
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External locus of control   show
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Internal locus of control   show
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Spotlight effect   show
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show is an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of psychotherapy. It teaches them there are other approaches to do the same thing and hence bettering themselves.  
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show methods that focus on contrasting and combining results from different studies, in the hope of identifying patterns among study results, sources of disagreement among those results  
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Central route of persuasion   show
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show involves being persuaded in a manner that is not based on the arguments or the message content. For example, after reading a political debate you may decide to vote for a candidate because you like the sound of the person's voice.  
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Deindividualization   show
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show According to this theory, people may be prejudice toward a group in order to vent their anger. In essence, they use the group they dislike as their target for all of their anger.  
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show is the cognitive bias (or assumption) that a person's actions always bring morally fair and fitting consequences to that person, so that all noble actions are eventually rewarded and all evil actions are eventually punished.  
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show aggression is the result of blocking, or frustrating, a person's efforts to attain a goal.  
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show a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them.  
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show the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.  
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show in reference to people in positions of leadership or responsibility. People in these positions are expected to help others. ie. Heros  
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