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1. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Excitement phase
variability
anterograde amnesia
2. A period after firing when a neuron is returning to its normal polarize state and will only fire again if the incoming message open parentheses impulse) is stronger than usual; returning to arresting state
Phoneme
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
relative refractory period
Superego
3. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
Morality
Double bind
primacy effect
Working through
4. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
functionalism
Operant Conditioning
Little Albert
memory span
5. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
Secondary Sex Characteristics
maintenance rehearsal
Tolerance
B.F. Skinner
6. Synaptic gap or synaptic space; tiny gap between the terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron (almost never touch); location of the transfer of an impulse from one neuron to the next
Superstitious Behavior
Signal Detection Theory
synaptic cleft
Observational Learning Theory
7. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
Saccades
Stanley Schachter
Superstitious Behavior
Algorithm
8. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
Id
Groupthink
Robert Zajonc
chromosome
9. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
Self-perception Theory
Approach-avoidance conflict
hypothalamus
Actor-observer Effect
10. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
population
Edward Bradford Titchener
ethnocentrism
correlation coefficient
11. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
mode
Divergent thinking
Psycholinguistics
Displacement
12. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature
Dementia
Approach-avoidance conflict
Mary Cover-Jones
Howard Gardner
13. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
Teratogen
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
psychobiology
William James
14. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
olfaction
Emotion
Need for achievement
self-fulfilling prophecy
15. First menstrual period
menarche
positive psychology
sympathetic nervous system
Alzheimer's Disease
16. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)
Wechsler intelligence tests
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Saccades
neurogenesis
17. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
serotonin
participant
refractory period
humanistic psychology
18. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
Residual type of schizophrenia
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Charles Darwin
anterograde amnesia
19. 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
science
cornea
natural selection
Kenneth Clark
20. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
Stimulus Discrimination
Group therapy
gonads
John B Watson
21. Morality based on consequences to self
levels-of-processing approach
Psychotherapy
Phineas Gage
preconventional level of moral development
22. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Motivation
Gender
Concrete operational stage
23. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Intelligence
frequency
Harry Harlow
hindbrain
24. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
pons
Trichromats
Personality
humanistic psychology
25. Sense of taste
gustation
Insight therapy
association areas
motivated forgetting
26. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works
Sensorimotor stage
functionalism
Phillip Zimbardo
Learning
27. Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of - and desire to avoid - situations in which the person might be exposed to scrutiny by others and might behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way.
Phoneme
Validity
Language
Social phobia
28. Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people - ideas - or objects that are based on a person's past experiences - shape his or her future behavior - and are evaluative in nature.
Attitudes
Group Polarization
Appraisal
neurotransmitters
29. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
Negative Reinforcement
temporal lobes
Social Interest
Lewis Terman
30. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)
synaptic cleft
Kenneth Clark
cornea
Jean Piaget
31. Study of the brain and nervous system; overlaps with psychobiology
relative refractory period
neuroscience
Law of Effect
Noam Chomsky
32. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
thalamus
Psychotic
Rationalization
visual acuity
33. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
Type B behavior
spinal cord
Social Categorization
behavioral genetics
34. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.
selective attention
Ego
brainstem
vestibular sense
35. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.
bulimia nervosa
Intrinsic motivation
central nervous system
William Dement
36. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste
experimental group
glial cells
Cognitive Psychology
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
37. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
Little Albert
Gestalt psychology
Egocentrism
Holmes & Rahe
38. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
insulin
serotonin
split brain patients
long-term memory
39. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness
Martin Seligman
Ageism
Panic Attack
gustation
40. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed
split brain patients
experimental group
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Trichromats
41. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life
Dichromats
acetylcholine (ACh)
authoritative parenting
industrial/organizational psychologist
42. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Negative Reinforcement
hypnosis
Trichromatic theory
maintenance rehearsal
43. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
Superego
Aaron Beck
median
Generalized anxiety disorder
44. Small area of retina where image is focused
Circadian Rhythms
synaptic vesicles
fovea
Placenta
45. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Motive
selective attention
Cognitive Psychology
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
46. A state of consciousness that occurs during sleep - usually accompanied by vivid visual - tactile - or auditory imagery.
Manifest Content
Dream
Insomnia
monism
47. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
population
Aversive counterconditioning
Vasocongestion
Teratogen
48. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.
Bipolar disorder
Hans Eysenck
Functional fixedness
Elizabeth Loftus
49. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
Learning
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Lawrence Kohlberg
Stress
50. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
Learned Helplessness
Variable-interval Schedule
Optic chiasm
Type B behavior
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