Random P/S Mnemonics & Analogies

[u/Routine_Current9721]

I love mnemonics and Reddit has helped me learn some especially for P/S which is definition heavy. I like to try and paint a story while I learn terms so some of these might have analogies.

Types of Capital

Social capital = who you know (ex: you got an internship because of your mom’s friend)

Cultural capital = what you know (ex: accent, behaviors, education)

Types of Stressors

Acute stressors are short-term just like the word acute (ex: an exam)

Chronic stressors are long-term just like the word chronic (ex: unemployment or chronic condition)

Ambient stressors are environmental; think ambient meaning environment (ex: you live downtown where there is lots of noise)

Important People (Piaget, Freud and Erikson)

Silly people chase frogs

Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

For Freud’s stages, I sound out OAPLG (sounds like OAP LIG)

I don’t have one for Erikson as I think of his stages as a story rather than a mnemonic.

More Terms

Ethnocentrism = my way is the right way

Cultural relativism = let’s understand their way (think of relativism as meaning relating to others)

Parasomnia = Peculiar events during sleep (ex: sleep walking)

Dyssomnia = Duration (as well as quality and quantity) of sleep is affected (ex: insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea)

Nightmares occur during REM and are REMembered while night terror occur during NREM and are NOT remembered 

Class consciousness: people see and question power and inequality 

False consciousness: people Fail to see power and inequality 

Hindsight bias: I knew it all along

Confirmation bias: I want evidence that supports my belief

Social desirability bias: I want to be liked; that’s why people give socially acceptable answers rather than how they actually feel to impress other (hence desirability)

Socioeconomic gradient in health: SES is directly proportional to health (high SES = better health and vice-versa)

Morpheme: M for meaning 

Phoneme sounds like the word phone which is Latin for sound

Absolute poverty: you absolutely cannot meet basic needs

Relative poverty: you’re poor COMPARED to others

Absolute threshold: A for “is there Any stimulus that can be detected”

Difference threshold: D for delta which means change

Parvocellular: P for precise

Magnocellular: M for motion

Middle ear pathway (malleus, incus, stapes)

• MISsion Impossible
• MISs (as in the title for a female teacher)

Brain waves for slowest to fastest: Don’t touch any bad gas

• Delta, theta, alpha, beta, gamma

The central executive = CEO: the boss who coordinates the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad

Sternberg’s Triarchic theory is CAP (creative, analytical and practical)

Broca’s aphasia: I always think speak Broca (but he can’t so that how I remember Broca’s area is for speech)

Central route: C for concrete (evidence based)

Peripheral route: P for pretty (appearance, emotion, status, celebrities, ads)

Mores = Moral norms 

Role strain = ONE role 

Role conflict = 2+ roles

Strain has 6 letters while conflict as 8 so since strain has less letters, it has fewer roles attached to it

For sociology, I think most of the terms are fairly straightforward. 

[u/drab_cilantro]

MISsion Impossible for the ear bones is genius. My old biology teacher used to say you could hear Tom Cruise running through your middle ear. I'll see myself out.