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1. A branch of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body functions; it calms the body after sympathetic stimulation
semantic memory
Reinforcer
parathormone
parasympathetic nervous system
2. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.
Assessment
psychoanalytic
sensory adaptation
Raw score
3. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation
Dichromats
science
rods
Motive
4. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
Solomon Asch
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
storage
limbic system
5. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
dendrites
psychiatrist
Carl Jung
primacy effect
6. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
Albert Ellis
receptor site
Anal Stage
retroactive interference
7. Did work on short-term memory
Gender
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Elaboration Likelihood Model
psychoanalytic
8. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.
frequency
Mediation
Alfred Binet
Observational Learning Theory
9. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
Substance Abuser
Working through
refractory period
Tolman
10. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons
emotional intelligence
zone of proximal development
menarche
B.F. Skinner
11. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
interneurons
Cognitive Dissonance
population
chunks
12. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
Electromagnetic Radiation
participant
Wechsler intelligence tests
Punishment
13. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
cornea
Intimacy
Backward search
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
14. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships
Sensorimotor stage
Social Need
Placebo effect
Unconditioned Response
15. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Debriefing
Convergent thinking
just noticeable difference (JND)
Genital Stage
16. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.
Interpretation
Visual cortex
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Trichromatic theory
17. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time
spinal cord
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Prejudice
Type A behavior
18. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.
Sociobiology
Oedipus Complex
forensic psychologist
Grasping reflex
19. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.
Trichromats
Metal retardation
Working through
Little Albert
20. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
ESP
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Brainstorming
Longitudinal Study
21. 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
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Descriptive Studies
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Group Polarization
22. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill
Homeostasis
functionalism
Means-ends analysis
placebo
23. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions
Concordance rate
Albert Ellis
cerebellum
Representative sample
24. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory
myelin sheath
Dissociative disorders
Working through
Saccades
25. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
Myopic
Variable-ratio Schedule
Creativity
Fetus
26. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
instinct
René Descartes
chromosome
Morality
27. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Konrad Lorenz
resting potential
psychology
hindbrain
28. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
Stress
Behavior therapy
authoritarian parenting
Transduction
29. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters
Placenta
Token economy
Alfred Adler
axon terminal
30. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
parietal lobes
Dream
Learning
mean
31. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
response bias
Social phobia
Wilhelm Wundt
32. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Oedipus Complex
Egocentrism
David Rosenhan
Little Albert
33. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain
family studies
convolutions
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
refractory period
34. 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.
Regression
schema
Superego
parathyroid
35. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
hindbrain
Personality
Need
EEG (electroencephalogram)
36. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.
Cross-sectional study
parathyroid
Creativity
Stress
37. 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'
dependent variable
thalamus
Withdrawal Symptoms
Sex
38. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law
response bias
Ernst Weber
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Optic chiasm
39. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
mutation
neuropsychologist
Egocentrism
Arousal
40. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal
Blood-Brain Barrier
Manifest Content
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
graded potential
41. A test score that has not been transformed or converted in any way
Lev Vygotsky
Raw score
Masters & Johnson
Semantics
42. Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.
gate control theory
Group Polarization
Learned Helplessness
Hyperopic
43. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness
Attachment
Martin Seligman
Functional fixedness
Herman von Helmholtz
44. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
agonist
iris
Excitement phase
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
45. Moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication
Light
Lawrence Kohlberg
Creativity
hypnosis
46. 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
ethnocentrism
association areas
selection studies
normal distribution
47. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad
Morality
Photoreceptors
psychoanalyst
aversive conditioning
48. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
Trichromats
Optic chiasm
Grammar
Noam Chomsky
49. Pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning) - stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls - children mimicked play
Experimental design
Conformity
postconventional level of moral development
Albert Bandura
50. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed
split brain patients
Paul Ekman
nature-nurture controversy
William Dement