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1. Style of parenting marked by emotional coldness - imposing rules and expecting obedience
synaptic vesicles
authoritarian parenting
Demand characteristics
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
2. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable
Rape
Vasocongestion
operational definition
Anna Freud
3. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness
Martin Seligman
Phineas Gage
Variable-ratio Schedule
neurogenesis
4. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement
Conservation
Antisocial personality disorder
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
(cerebral) cortex
5. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)
blind spot
Fetus
glial cells
pituitary gland
6. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
mode
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Self-actualization
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
7. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
Psychoactive Drug
Case study
Myopic
Self
8. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.
Logic
Attachment
Conformity
Prototype
9. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
variable
Reinforcer
Experimental design
instinct
10. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met
Groupthink
moral development
retrieval
informed consent
11. The first person to study memory scientifically and systematically; used nonsense syllables and recorded how many times he had to study a list to remember it well
Hermann Ebbinghaus
norepinephrine
Konrad Lorenz
pineal gland
12. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe
experimental group
Convergent thinking
Carol Gilligan
pineal gland
13. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
interneurons
glial cells
Motive
Attachment
14. Released by thyroid; hormone that regulates the body's metabolism; OVERACTIVE-over-excitability - insomnia - reduced attention span - fatigue - snap decisions - reduced concentration (hyperthyroidism); UNDERACTIVE-desire to sleep - constantly tired -
Konrad Lorenz
Latent Learning
thyroxine
Abnormal Behavior
15. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.
Self-efficacy
Unconditioned Stimulus
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Subliminal perception
16. Twins from a single fertilized egg (zygote) with the same genetic makeup; also called monozygotic (MZ) twins
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
identical twins
Gordon Allport
Case study
17. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Anal Stage
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Subliminal perception
18. A state of consciousness that occurs during sleep - usually accompanied by vivid visual - tactile - or auditory imagery.
Dream
Psychophysics
Perception
Absolute threshold
19. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
glial cells
Anal Stage
psychoanalytic
pons
20. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
endorphins
Displacement
forensic psychologist
neurotransmitters
21. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
social psychologist
pineal gland
Depressive disorders
Need for achievement
22. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Debriefing
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Intimacy
23. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Equity Theory
Unconditioned Stimulus
Social Loafing
Free association
24. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
Bonding
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Aggression
observer bias
25. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons
theory
Egocentrism
B.F. Skinner
Gender
26. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
Moro reflex
Stanley Milgram
psychoanalytic
Drive
27. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
adrenal glands
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
population
self-fulfilling prophecy
28. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
selection studies
Behavior therapy
observer bias
Type B behavior
29. 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.
Standard score
Subliminal perception
Projective Tests
iris
30. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.
operational definition
Psychotic
retrograde amnesia
Antisocial personality disorder
31. 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.
amnesia
Social Influence
thyroid gland
Superego
32. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
neurogenesis
Conservation
dopamine
Self-actualization
33. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
Conservation
Anna O.
Brainstorming
Oedipus Complex
34. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
Lucid Dream
motor neurons
Superstitious Behavior
strain studies
35. Memory for specific information
transfer appropriate processing
declarative memory
agonist
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
36. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes
Konrad Lorenz
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Symptom substitution
DNA
37. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
Ex Post Facto Design
Androgynous
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Oedipus Complex
38. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
Vasocongestion
placebo effect
antagonist
implicit memory
39. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative
memory span
Linguistics
family studies
Social Interest
40. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
naturalistic observation
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Transduction
debriefing
41. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.
significant difference
thalamus
Obedience
Representative sample
42. 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
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Hobson & McCarley
monocular cues
case study
43. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions
hormone
Law of Effect
Reasoning
Fixed-interval Schedule
44. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
Attitudes
Behavior therapy
polygenic inheritance
parallel processing
45. Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.
Aggression
Francis Galton
scientific method
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
46. 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
Libido
Generalized anxiety disorder
genetics
Abnormal Behavior
47. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input
Longitudinal Study
Wilhelm Wundt
ESP
Opponent-process theory
48. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
Phoneme
Projection
Critical Period
humanistic psychology
49. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response
Panic Attack
inhibitory neurotransmitter
frequency
Extinction (classical conditioning)
50. Largest - most complicated - and most advanced of the three divisions of the brain; comprises the thalamus - hypothalamus - limbic system - basal ganglia - corpus callosum - and cortex
forebrain
nature
Biofeedback
synaptic vesicles
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