Understanding Psychology (10th Ed)

meditation

 
A learned technique for refocusing 
attention that brings about an altered state of 
consciousness (Module 15).

memory

 
The process by which we encode, 
store, and retrieve information (Module 20).

menopause

 
The period during which women 
stop menstruating and are no longer fertile 
(Module 39).

mental age

 
The age for which a given level of 
performance is average or typical (Module 26).

mental images

 
Representations in the mind of 
an object or event (Module 23).

mental retardation (or intellectual disability)

 
A condition characterized by signifi cant limita-
tions both in intellectual functioning and in 
conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills 
(Module 27).

mental set

 
The tendency for old patterns of 
problem solving to persist (Module 24).

metabolism

 
The rate at which food is con-
verted to energy and expended by the body 
(Module 30).

metacognition

 
An awareness and under-
standing of one’s own cognitive processes 
(Module 37).

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality 
Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)

 
A widely used 
self-report test that identifi es people with 
psychological diffi culties and is employed to 
predict some everyday behaviors (Module 42).

mirror neurons

 
Specialized neurons that fi re 
not only when a person enacts a particular 
behavior, but also when a person simply 
observes another individual carrying out the 
same behavior (Module 7).
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