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1. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior






2. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information






3. The expression of genes






4. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.






5. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory






6. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer






7. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them






8. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent






9. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes






10. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation






11. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume






12. 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






13. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher






14. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks






15. The process by which the probability of an organism's emitting a response is reduced when reinforcement no longer follows the response






16. The arithmetic average of a set of scores






17. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.






18. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period






19. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.






20. Psychoanalytic technique in which a person is asked to report to the therapist his or her thoughts and feelings as they occur - regardless of how trivial - illogical - or objectionable their content may appear.






21. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.






22. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual






23. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues






24. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior






25. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.






26. The second level of the three organizational structures of the brain that receives signals from other parts of the brain or spinal cord and either relays the information to other parts of the brain or causes the body to act immediately; involved in m






27. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.






28. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






29. A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable behavior.






30. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments






31. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.






32. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior






33. The suppression of one bit of information by another






34. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.






35. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves






36. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands






37. 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






38. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight






39. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters






40. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light






41. 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






42. 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






43. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children






44. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance






45. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans






46. Primary area for processing visual information






47. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion






48. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids






49. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.






50. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register







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