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1. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
Lucid Dream
Placebo effect
evolutionary psychology
Self-serving Bias
2. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
polygenic inheritance
sports psychologist
normal distribution
Phillip Zimbardo
3. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)
parathyroid
Electromagnetic Radiation
Archetypes
Arousal
4. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall
psychoanalytic
Phonology
Anna O.
Karl Wernicke
5. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood
William Dement
Subliminal perception
triarchic theory of intelligence
Stimulant
6. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Equity Theory
Need for achievement
Egocentrism
Working through
7. Visual theory - proposed by Herring - that color is coded by stimulation of three types of paired receptors; each pair of receptors is assumed to operate in an antagonist way so that stimulation by a given wavelength produces excitation (increased fi
interference
Opponent-process theory
empiricism
Representative sample
8. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
Raw score
Social Loafing
psychiatrist
Assessment
9. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire
audition
Martin Seligman
Types
excitatory neurotransmitter
10. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
Concrete operational stage
Self-actualization
Holmes & Rahe
motor projection areas
11. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization
dominant genes
behavioral genetics
polarization
neural plasticity
12. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings
Robert Zajonc
authoritarian parenting
explicit memory
Reinforcer
13. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher
Secondary Punisher
consolidation
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
descriptive statistics
14. Noradrenaline; chemical which is excitatory - similar to adrenaline - and affects arousal and memory; raises blood pressure by causing blood vessels to become constricted - but also carried by bloodstream to the anterior pituitary which relaxes ACTH
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
sensory memory
Longitudinal Study
norepinephrine
15. When a neuron is in polarization; more negative ions are inside the neuron cell membrane with a positive ions on the outside - causing a small electrical charge; release of this charge generates a neuron's impulse (signal/message)
prenatal development
ex post facto study
Perception
resting potential
16. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
shaping
Mainstreaming
Unconditioned Stimulus
Social Psychology
17. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
Psychodynamically
Learned Helplessness
Latency Stage
Sucking reflex
18. Perspective that seeks to explain and predict behaviors by analyzing how the human brain developed over time - how it functions - and how input from the environment affects human behaviors
Personality
frontal lobes
achievement test
evolutionary psychology
19. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions
Abnormal Behavior
Karl Wernicke
Albert Ellis
psychologist
20. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes
occipital lobes
Demand characteristics
Reliability
Latent Content
21. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
Bonding
brainstem
Token economy
Ivan Pavlov
22. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening
Creativity
Lucid Dream
functionalism
Hobson & McCarley
23. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
thyroid gland
forebrain
Major depressive disorder
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
24. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals
Obedience
nerve
Spontaneous Recovery
variable
25. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
Moro reflex
Oedipus Complex
consolidation
afferent neuron nerve
26. A test designed to predict a person's future performance
Heuristics
theory
aptitude test
bulimia nervosa
27. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
Functional fixedness
amygdala
Social Cognition
forensic psychologist
28. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
storage
Psychotic
Grammar
Spontaneous Recovery
29. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age
parietal lobes
Oral Stage
Major depressive disorder
Representative sample
30. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
timbre
Anxiety
mode
somatic nervous system
31. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
Skinner Box
Abnormal psychology
descriptive statistics
Expectancy Theories
32. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
Receptive fields
median
amygdala
Anxiety
33. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.
significant difference
explicit memory
Impression Formation
Superego
34. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic
Insomnia
clinical psychologist
Secondary Punisher
Formal operational stage
35. The process by which individuals lose their self-awareness and distinctive personality in the context of a group - which may lead them to engage in antinormative behavior.
Deindividuation
nurture
Martin Seligman
levels-of-processing approach
36. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
temporal lobes
Hobson & McCarley
sports psychologist
Punishment
37. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.
Interpersonal Attraction
Linguistics
Factor analysis
Body Language
38. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
Phillip Zimbardo
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Punishment
Attachment
39. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
inhibitory neurotransmitter
audition
Reaction Formation
case study
40. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned
Primary Reinforcer
behavioral genetics
Sucking reflex
Subgoal analysis
41. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
Latent Learning
preconscious
blind spot
Paul Ekman
42. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
Adolescence
just noticeable difference (JND)
Visual cortex
Need
43. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
replication
Hans Eysenck
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Phineas Gage
44. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after predetermined but varying amounts of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once after each interval
transfer appropriate processing
menopause
receptor site
Variable-interval Schedule
45. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment
Projection
audition
Moro reflex
Holmes & Rahe
46. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
random sample
Abraham Maslow
Emotion
habituation
47. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
Withdrawal Symptoms
Defense Mechanism
empiricism
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
48. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'
thalamus
functional MRI (fMRI)
Transduction
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
49. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
Group Polarization
Conflict
Assimilation
anorexia nervosa
50. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Transference
Conditioned Response
Dissociative identity disorder
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