Psy Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Term that describes the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.

• intuition
• cognitive
• insufficient
• variation

This term means: not enough; inadequate

• apparent
• intuition
• enhance
• insufficient

This term means: a series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions.

• cognitive
• insufficient
• intuition
• Scientific Method

This term means: to improve

• biases
• enhance
• vary
• Values

This is term for the controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input; includes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

• multiply determined
• Repressed memories
• extrasensory perception (ESP)
• extraversion

This term means: having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding.

• cognitive biases
• cognitive
• objective
• intuition

These are obstacles in thinking that lead to systematic errors in our decision making and interfere with our rational thinking.

• cognitive biases
• biases
• Motivational Biases
• cognitive

These are beliefs that are distorted by wishful thinking and revolves around how our social perceptions can be impacted by our hopes, needs, wishes and preferences.

• Motivational Biases
• cognitive biases
• biases
• hindsight bias

The term for beliefs that are not founded by known facts about something, someone or about a particular group of individuals. For example- that women are weak (despite many being very strong). another is that obese people are lazy (when their weight may be due to any of a range of factors, including disease and genetics).

• vary
• biases
• Facts
• Values

This term means: capable of being shaped or changed.

• malleable
• Values
• enhance
• objective