positive transference. in psychoanalysis, a patient's transfer onto the analyst or therapist of those feelings of attachment, love, idealization, or other positiveemotions that the patient originally experienced toward parents or other significant individuals during childhood.

Conversion disorder is a mental condition in which a person has blindness, paralysis, or other nervous system (neurologic) symptoms that cannot be explained by medical evaluation.

Social loafing refers to the concept that people are prone to exert less effort on a task if they are in a group versus when they work alone.
Social facilitation, or the audience effect, is the tendency for people to perform differently when in the presence of others than when alone. Compared to their performance when alone, when in the presence of others, they tend to perform better on simple or well-rehearsed tasks and worse on complex or new ones.
Group polarization: refers to the tendency for a group to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members. 
Groupthink: the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility
Minority Influence: takes place when a member of a minority group influences the majority to accept the minority's beliefs or behavior.

Affective disorders are a set of psychiatric disorders, also called mood disorders. The main types of affective disorders are depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorder 

Tardive dyskinesia is caused by long-term use of neuroleptic drugs, which are used to treat psychiatric conditions. Tardive dyskinesia causes repetitive, involuntary movements, such as grimacing and eye blinking. Stopping or tapering drugs that may be contributing to involuntary repetitive movements can help. In rare cases, botulinum toxin, deep brain stimulation, or medications can help

Psuedobulbar Affect: crying when you shouldn't mental condition, could be connected to Parkinsons

Risperidone belongs to a group of medicines called antipsychotic agents, which improve the symptoms of certain types of mental illness.

Risperidone is used for:

symptoms of schizophrenia and other types of related psychoses in adults and adolescents over 15 years of age. These are conditions related to thoughts, feelings and/or actions.

acute mania associated with Bipolar 1 Disorder. Symptoms of this condition may include elevated, expansive or irritable mood, inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, pressured speech, racing thoughts, distractibility or poor judgment including disruptive or aggressive behaviours.

short term treatment of behavioural problems in patients with a decline in mental ability (dementia). These problems include aggression through words or action, morbid suspiciousness, agitation or wandering.

conduct and other disruptive disorders such as aggression, impulsiveness and self-injury in adults and children aged over 5 years old who are intellectually disabled.

certain behaviours seen in children and adolescents with autism.

Feature Detectors: The ability to detect certain types of stimuli, like movements, shape, and angles, requires specialized cells in the brain called feature detectors. Without these, it would be difficult,

Accommodation is a term developed by psychologist Jean Piaget to describe what occurs when new information or experiences cause you to modify your existing schemas. Rather than make the new information fit into an existing schema, you change the schema in order to accommodate the new information.

Relative Clarity

Because light from distant objects passes through more atmosphere, we perceive hazy objects as farther away than sharp, clear objects.

Relative Size

If we assume that two objects are similar in size, we perceive the one that casts the smaller retinal image as farther away.

Interposition

If one object partially blocks our view of another, we perceive it as closer.

Relative Height

We perceive objects higher in our field of vision as farther away. Because we perceive the lower part of a figure-ground illustration as closer, we perceive it as a figure.

Relative Motion (Motion Parallax)

As we move, objects that are actually stable may appear to move. Objects closer than the fixation point appear to move backwards and objects beyond the fixation point appear to move with you. The farther away the objects are, the faster they will move.

Linear Perspective

Parallel lines appear to converge with distance. The more the lines converge, the greater their perceived distance.

Light and Shadow

Nearby objects reflect more light to our eyes. given two identical objects, the dimmer one seems farther away.

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 medial geniculate nucleus (MGN)  part of the auditory thalamus and represents the thalamic relay between the inferior colliculus (IC) and the auditory cortex (AC).

Proprioception Vs. Haptic
Haptic: the ability to grasp something
Proprioception: the understanding of the relative position of body parts the object to move a distance

Update! Fun little facts... Remember Piaget's idea of Object Permanence compares 10 month olds vs 12 month olds....

Most babies take their first steps sometime between 9 and 12 months and are walking well by the time they're 14 or 15 months old. 

Most babies learn to crawl between the ages of 7 months and10 months. Your baby may opt for another method of locomotion around this time, though – like bottom shuffling (scooting around on her bottom, using a hand behind and a foot in front to propel herself), slithering on her stomach, or rolling across the room.

MCAT Science Workbook 2015 Princeton Review

I decided to do 7 passages from the Princeton Review Book and I am writing down all the notes and important topics that were discusses. Expect terms and strategies and I found a really good one, stay tuned to the end ;)

Symbolic Culture: intangible culture that exists in society such as norms, beliefs and ideas. Social networks is a non-material concept
Material Culture: all things related to a given culture like clothes or food while a symbolic culture
Human Capital: collective  skills, knowledge, intangible assets of individuals that can be used to create economic value for the individual's or their community. Example is education or experiences
Cultural Capital:  Social assets that promote social mobility beyond economic means that from networks and people.
Symbolic Capital: Resources given to an individual due to power or prestige
Symbolic Interactionism: smoking, race, gender, and interpersonal relationships can all function within the framework interactionism
Conflict Theory: the parts of society do not work together harmoniously so society's parts are competing with one another for limited resources.  From the conflict perspective, social problems are the natural and inevitable outcome of social struggle. The basis of all social problems is the conflict over limited resources between the more and less powerful. The more powerful exploit society's resources and oppress the less powerful.
Prejudice: inflexible and irrational attitudes a opinions held by members of one group about another
Discrimination: refers to behaviors directed against another group.
Weber's three component theory of stratification: includes the components of class, power, and status: prejudice is not a component of stratification. Power: the ability to implement one's decisions
Class: defined as one's economic position in society. Status: one's reputation often associated with their class.
Social facilitation: the tendency for people to perform differently when in the presence of others when when alone.
Agents of Socialization: family school and peers, mass media
Social Identity: a person's sense of who they are based on their group status
Self-schema: long lasting and stable set of beliefs experiences and generalizations about the self that is important to one's own self definition
Self-esteem: overall emotional evaluation of one's own worth.
Self-Efficacy: is the belief in one's ability to succeed at a given task.
Social Learning Theory (By Albert Bandura): learning is a cognitive process that takes place in a social context that can occur purely through observation and direct instruction in the absence of motor reproduction or direct reinforcement.
Cognitive Dissonance Theory (By Leon Festinger): individuals seek consistency among their cognitions (beliefs ideals)
Groupthink: phenomenon where people tend to conform with group decisions to avoid feeling outcast, leading to errors in decision making.
Foot in the door Phenomenon example: A passerby gives a panhandler a small amount of money after the panhandler requests and receives a cigarette from him
Ethnocentrism: the emotional attitude that one's own race, nation, or culture is superior to all others

Kohlberg Morality Chart
Level 1: Preconventional morality <9 years old
Moral code shaped by standards of adults and the consequences of following or breaking their rules
Stage 1: Obedience and Punishment Orientation
The child/individual is good in order to avoid being punished.
Stage 2: Individualism and Exchange
Different individuals have different viewpoints, not one right view that is handed down
Level 2: Conventional morality (Teenagers and adults)
internalize moral standards of valued adult role models
Stage 3: Good Intrapersonal Skills 
Individual is good in order to be seen as being a good person by others (approval)
Stage 4: Maintaining the Social Order
The individual becomes aware of the wider rules of society so judgements cern obeying the rules in order to uphold the law and to avoid guilt
Level 3: Postconventional Stage (10-15% of the population)
Stage 5: Social Contract and Individual Rights
rules and laws are good for the greater number and there are times when they will work against the interest of particular individuals.
Stage 6: Universal Principles
People at this stage have developed their own set of moral guidelines which may or may not fit the law. The principles apply to everyone.