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1. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.
Type A behavior
Perception
Sensorimotor stage
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
2. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
James-Lange theory of emotion
memory span
Gender Schema Theory
somatic nervous system
3. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
frequency
interference
DNA
Drug
4. Sharpness of vision
retina
psychiatrist
Projection
visual acuity
5. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Social Interest
Accommodation
Approach-avoidance conflict
Motive
6. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Double-blind techniques
Prosocial Behavior
(cerebral) cortex
7. Memory; studied memorization of meaningless words
Withdrawal Symptoms
Subliminal perception
Hermann Ebbinghaus
endocrine glands
8. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
Intrinsic motivation
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
pituitary gland
psychiatrist
9. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance
Phallic Stage
Higher-order Conditioning
Robert Yerkes
Convergent thinking
10. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Little Albert
forensic psychologist
Drive
hormone
11. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Behavior therapy
René Descartes
shaping
12. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands
pitch
counseling psychologist
Resilience
action potential
13. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction
Socrates
cochlea
Von Restorff effect
Self
14. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision
limbic system
cones
Percentile score
Residual type of schizophrenia
15. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
sound localization
Formal operational stage
Double bind
sensory memory
16. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes
DNA
brain
thyroxine
Projection
17. Deals with the extent to which heredity and the environment each influence behavior
Wolpe
Experimental design
Symptom substitution
nature-nurture controversy
18. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable
operational definition
David McClelland
just noticeable difference (JND)
adrenal glands
19. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
dualism
correlational research
placebo
Zygote
20. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.
Social Categorization
Oral Stage
William Dement
Social Need
21. Behaviorism/learning; pioneer in systematic desensitization - maintained that fear could be unlearned
Mary Cover-Jones
difference threshold
Opponent-process theory
unconscious
22. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
Perception
Stimulus Discrimination
Social Interest
thyroid gland
23. Intelligence; found that specific mental talents were highly correlated - concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled 'g' (general ability)
frontal lobes
sports psychologist
schema
Charles Spearman
24. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Kenneth Clark
engineering psychologist
Edward Bradford Titchener
Validity
25. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
Formal operational stage
Grammar
Stimulus Discrimination
self-actualization
26. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives
Approach-approach conflict
Moro reflex
Mary Cover-Jones
introspection
27. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.
motor neurons
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Opponent-process theory
Reasoning
28. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
Survey
excitatory neurotransmitter
demand characteristics
retina
29. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
maintenance rehearsal
Masters & Johnson
Representative sample
30. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)
Sex
standard deviation
Lev Vygotsky
parathyroid
31. The principle that those characteristics and behaviors that help organisms adapt - be fit - and survive will be passed on to successive generations - because flexible - fit individuals have a greater chance of reproduction
dopamine
Group therapy
natural selection
hormone
32. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
aversive conditioning
Unconditioned Stimulus
33. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
pupil
Reflex
Punishment
cones
34. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
Electromagnetic Radiation
Phineas Gage
Functional fixedness
Saccades
35. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events
shaping
timbre
Sensorimotor stage
nature-nurture controversy
36. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream
debriefing
Stressor
Interpersonal Attraction
endocrine glands
37. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
Psychodynamically
Skinner Box
Factor analysis
Gender Schema Theory
38. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
Coping
ex post facto study
Punishment
endorphins
39. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
postconventional level of moral development
Wechsler intelligence tests
Carol Gilligan
Raymond Cattell
40. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
René Descartes
authoritarian parenting
Social Interest
Social Categorization
41. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands
Arousal
Debriefing
Type B behavior
Unconditioned Stimulus
42. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
genetic mapping
Unconditioned Stimulus
aptitude test
relative refractory period
43. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
Self-efficacy
social psychologist
levels-of-processing approach
Rooting reflex
44. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
experimental group
sports psychologist
Higher-order Conditioning
Archetypes
45. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior
Social Interest
sensory adaptation
Emotion
David Weschler
46. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
Psychoactive Drug
interneurons
Monochromats
Longitudinal Study
47. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.
Need for achievement
educational psychologist
Assimilation
Ego
48. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
Prosocial Behavior
memory
Latency Stage
Motive
49. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
Rape
Kurt Lewin
Id
Cognitive Psychology
50. The depth and richness of a hue determined by determined by the homogeneity of the wavelengths contained in the reflected light; also known as purity.
naturalistic observation
Trichromats
Saturation
Jean Piaget
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