Concepts

• amnesia (retrograde & anterograde, transient global, source)
• amnesia: not real (posthypnotic & post-traumatic)
• anchors
• association theories
• atheoretical
• autism
• biotic experiments
• bounded rationality
• choice rational
• cognitive bias (confirmation, hindsight, IKEA effect, Lake Wobegone , etc.)
• cognitive distortion
• cognitive maps: bearing (vector) & landmark (sketch)
• cognitive schema (assimilation & accommodation)
• conflict (unlabeled, unresolved)
• conflict types (approach-approach, approach-avoidance, etc.)
• connectionism
• connections (S-R bonds)
• conservation
• consolidation
• constructivism
• context theory
• contiguity
• cryptomnesia
• cues: context dependent & state dependent
• decision fatigue
• default setting
• deferred imitation
• deferred incentives
• discovery learning
• dissociate fugue
• distance
• drive
• drive reduction
• drive-cue-response-reward
• drives (primary & secondary)
• effort justification
• event substitution
• expanded retrieval strategy
• factor analysis
• feature detection
• film
• fixed action pattern (FAP)
• forced choice
• forgetting rate
• forgetting theory: trace decay & interference (retrieval failure, recognition failure)
• frustration-aggression hypothesis
• gain
• gain & loss aversion
• Gestalt
• goal state
• gradients (approach & avoidance)
• hippocampus (boundary cells, grid & location)
• information processing theory
• interference (proactive & retroactive)
• intervening events
• lateral thinking
• local high
• Maslow’s hammer
• means-end analysis
• memory: declarative (semantic & episodic), implicit (procedural & muscle) & working)
• mirror neurons
• morphological analysis
• motor movements (continuous, discrete & mixed)
• observational learning (mirroring, imitating & modeling)
• operational definition
• overlearning
• permastores
• perseveration
• personal construct theory
• placebos
• post hoc ego proctor hoc
• priming
• problem situation
• problem solving (hill climbing, PDCA, OODA loop, GROW, fast and frugal)
• problem solving strategies (algorithms, heuristics & analogies)
• problem types: well-defined (well-structured) & ill-defined (ill-structured)
• puzzle boxes
• retrograde analysis
• root-cause analysis
• Rotter’s formula: behavior potential (BP) = expectations (E), reinforcement value (RV)
• satisfaction
• satisficing
• scaffolding
• schema
• serial motor movements
• shuttle box
• spatial reasoning
• stamped in, stamped out
• status quo
• stereotypes
• stupidity-misery syndrome
• subgoals
• thinking (concrete & formal operations)
• Thorndike’s laws (effect, exercise, readiness)
• time-gap
• trained mind
• transfer of training
• War of the Ghosts
• warm up trials