distributed processing - ANSWER Accounts for the fact that your brain
constructs images even when no information is coming to your eyes,
merely by firing a network.
frames of reference - ANSWER Paradigms to enable us to organize and
understand our world, our perceptions, our experiences.
selective attention - ANSWER The focusing of consciousness on a
partial aspect of all we are capable of experiencing.
positive psychology - ANSWER The study of the healthy aspects of
human functioning that make us effective in our lives; the study of
optimal human functioning.
flourishing - ANSWER Refers to the primary goal of positive psychology
which is to help individuals live a full and meaningful life commensurate
with optimal human functioning.
epigenetics - ANSWER Examines the bridge between nature and
nurture whereby your environment and your choices influence the
expression of your genes and even the genetic code you pass to later
generations.
schema - ANSWER An equivalent term for paradigm, a way of seeing
things.
predictive coding - ANSWER A process your brain employs to protect
you from being inundated with information processing whereby it makes
forecasts about what it is seeing and changes these predictions only
when it makes an error.
, neurons - ANSWER A specialized cell that conducts impulses through
the nervous system.
functional fixedness - ANSWER Becoming locked into thinking about
using objects only in the most conventional or familiar ways.
synapse - ANSWER The space between neurons where one neuron
communicates with another.
neurogenesis - ANSWER The ability of the brain to grow new neurons
which appears to happen most readily within the hippocampus.
selective perception - ANSWER The tendency to perceive that which we
expect to be there.
neural Darwinism - ANSWER The weakening of unused synaptic
connections and the strengthening of the busiest connections.
ambiguous figures - ANSWER Images capable of being perceived in
more than one way depending on one's frame of reference, such as
optical illusions.
paradigm - ANSWER A particular way of seeing or conceptualizing
things. Also referred to as a perspective, schema, or frame.
sensation - ANSWER The process of receiving stimuli from our
surroundings.
brain reserve - ANSWER An increase in the connections between
neurons believed to help the brain become more resistant to age-related
or disease-related damage.
reframing - ANSWER The process of actively changing perspectives to
create paradigm shifts.
neuroplasticity - ANSWER The capacity of the brain to change its
internal structure by reorganizing neural pathways based on new
experiences.
constructs images even when no information is coming to your eyes,
merely by firing a network.
frames of reference - ANSWER Paradigms to enable us to organize and
understand our world, our perceptions, our experiences.
selective attention - ANSWER The focusing of consciousness on a
partial aspect of all we are capable of experiencing.
positive psychology - ANSWER The study of the healthy aspects of
human functioning that make us effective in our lives; the study of
optimal human functioning.
flourishing - ANSWER Refers to the primary goal of positive psychology
which is to help individuals live a full and meaningful life commensurate
with optimal human functioning.
epigenetics - ANSWER Examines the bridge between nature and
nurture whereby your environment and your choices influence the
expression of your genes and even the genetic code you pass to later
generations.
schema - ANSWER An equivalent term for paradigm, a way of seeing
things.
predictive coding - ANSWER A process your brain employs to protect
you from being inundated with information processing whereby it makes
forecasts about what it is seeing and changes these predictions only
when it makes an error.
, neurons - ANSWER A specialized cell that conducts impulses through
the nervous system.
functional fixedness - ANSWER Becoming locked into thinking about
using objects only in the most conventional or familiar ways.
synapse - ANSWER The space between neurons where one neuron
communicates with another.
neurogenesis - ANSWER The ability of the brain to grow new neurons
which appears to happen most readily within the hippocampus.
selective perception - ANSWER The tendency to perceive that which we
expect to be there.
neural Darwinism - ANSWER The weakening of unused synaptic
connections and the strengthening of the busiest connections.
ambiguous figures - ANSWER Images capable of being perceived in
more than one way depending on one's frame of reference, such as
optical illusions.
paradigm - ANSWER A particular way of seeing or conceptualizing
things. Also referred to as a perspective, schema, or frame.
sensation - ANSWER The process of receiving stimuli from our
surroundings.
brain reserve - ANSWER An increase in the connections between
neurons believed to help the brain become more resistant to age-related
or disease-related damage.
reframing - ANSWER The process of actively changing perspectives to
create paradigm shifts.
neuroplasticity - ANSWER The capacity of the brain to change its
internal structure by reorganizing neural pathways based on new
experiences.
