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1. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Excitement phase
Gazzaniga or Sperry
parallel processing
2. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood
Dissociative disorders
Health psychology
hypothalamus
Stimulant
3. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.
Positive Reinforcement
anorexia nervosa
informed consent
Prosocial Behavior
4. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
Behavior therapy
rehearsal
Robert Rosenthal
Bonding
5. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
Types
Morality
interference
behavioral genetics
6. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
Ivan Pavlov
motor neurons
proactive interference
Prosocial Behavior
7. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
psychiatrist
ex post facto study
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Assessment
8. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat
Generalized anxiety disorder
Cognitive Dissonance
descriptive statistics
Schema
9. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
Transference
range
Secondary Punisher
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
10. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.
Major depressive disorder
Case study
primacy effect
Oral Stage
11. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population
Motive
Heritability
John B Watson
excitatory neurotransmitter
12. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
twin studies
Emotion
Self-perception Theory
John Garcia
13. Sense of smell
lens
neuropsychologist
instinct
olfaction
14. Process in which the sense organs' receptor cells are stimulated and relay initial information to higher brain centers for further processing.
glial cells
Trichromatic theory
Robert Rosenthal
Sensation
15. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp
Konrad Lorenz
Abnormal Behavior
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Robert Zajonc
16. A need or want that causes someone to act
Ego
Need for achievement
motive
Arousal
17. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.
Social Influence
monism
Lucid Dream
gene
18. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.
efferent neuron nerve
olfaction
Assessment
Type B behavior
19. A mass of tissue that is attached to the wall f the uterus and connected to the developing fetus by the umbilical cord; it supplies nutrients and eliminates waste products
declarative memory
Placenta
theory
postconventional level of moral development
20. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
psychoanalyst
Absolute threshold
forebrain
Norms
21. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
Gender Identity
measure of central tendency
Harry Stack Sullivan
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
22. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
receptor site
Self-serving Bias
Blood-Brain Barrier
unconscious
23. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
Aristotle
all-or-none principle
motor projection areas
Family therapy
24. 'Wernicke's area'; discovered area of left temporal lobe that involved language understanding: person damaged in this area uses correct words but they do not make sense
Humanistic theory
Projective Tests
Social Categorization
Karl Wernicke
25. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
token economy
lens
Prejudice
Langer & Rodin
26. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.
Obedience
gene
John Garcia
David Rosenhan
27. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
Time-out
Fetus
Convergent thinking
brain
28. Primary area for processing visual information
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Mediation
occipital lobes
twin studies
29. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
Social Loafing
Unconditioned Response
Harry Harlow
hindbrain
30. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Trichromats
James-Lange theory of emotion
Wechsler intelligence tests
31. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Psychophysics
Gender Schema Theory
Need for achievement
Representative sample
32. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.
Wechsler intelligence tests
Preoperational stage
Social Interest
Backward search
33. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Naturalistic observation
Reaction Formation
strain studies
34. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)
bulimia nervosa
school psychologist
triarchic theory of intelligence
chunks
35. A donut ring-shaped of loosely connected structures located in the forebrain between the central core and cerebral hemispheres; consists of: septum - cingulate gyrus - endowments - hypothalamus - and to campus - and amygdala; associated with emotions
motor projection areas
Psycholinguistics
limbic system
placebo effect
36. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life
Lewis Terman
optic nerve
Specific phobia
Negative Reinforcement
37. 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.
Lucid Dream
Noam Chomsky
statistics
Superego
38. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill
placebo
Excitement phase
amygdala
forebrain
39. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.
Interpretation
natural selection
Projection
parathormone
40. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
refractory period
Signal Detection Theory
Charles Darwin
41. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
flashbulb memories
Leon Festinger
nature-nurture controversy
Unconditioned Response
42. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
Normal curve
Masters & Johnson
science
Extinction (operant conditioning)
43. Freud's first stage of personality development - from birth to about age 2 - during which the instincts of infants are focused on the mouth as the primary pleasure center.
sensory neurons
Lawrence Kohlberg
Impression Formation
Oral Stage
44. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics
central nervous system
psychiatrist
Decision making
Case study
45. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.
Concept
Ego
Darley & Latane
frontal lobes
46. Theorist who both aided in the development of the trichromatic theory of color perception and Place theory of pitch perception.
Edward Thorndike
Representative sample
Herman von Helmholtz
Debriefing
47. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable
rehearsal
Genital Stage
set point
confounding variable
48. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities
Dissociative disorders
functional MRI (fMRI)
Blood-Brain Barrier
Charles Darwin
49. Bundles of axons
frontal lobes
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Abnormal psychology
nerve
50. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
amnesia
Subgoal analysis
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Psycholinguistics
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