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1. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
Formal operational stage
Group Polarization
maintenance rehearsal
confounding variable
2. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
educational psychologist
Language
Socrates
median
3. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
state-dependent learning
Dissociative identity disorder
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Factor analysis
4. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.
Ego
debriefing
gustation
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
5. An explanation of behavior that emphasizes the entirety of life rather than individual components of behavior and focuses on human dignity - individual choice - and self-worth
science
Humanistic theory
control group
Double-blind techniques
6. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
Deindividuation
sympathetic nervous system
Punishment
Lewis Terman
7. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body
Cognitive theories
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
kinesthesis
crystallized intelligence
8. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
adrenal glands
Robert Zajonc
frontal lobes
Babinski reflex
9. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.
observer bias
Psychotic
Double bind
Client-centered therapy
10. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.
flashbulb memories
Altruism
Accommodation
Charles Darwin
11. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
Backward search
Health psychology
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Decision making
12. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Thanatology
Overjustification effect
behaviorism
13. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
Conflict
Gestalt psychology
insulin
lens
14. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm
ions
Plateau phase
Morpheme
Social Loafing
15. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
Projection
Reliability
postconventional level of moral development
Androgynous
16. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience
Gibson & Walk
imagery
Experimental design
myelin sheath
17. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
binocular cues
preconscious
Fetus
Stimulant
18. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
Demand characteristics
Sex
Subliminal perception
Shaping
19. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation
scientific method
Delusions
science
schema
20. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
Fetus
Anorexia Nervosa
conventional level of moral development
Altruism
21. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
Masters & Johnson
Phillip Zimbardo
blind spot
Trait
22. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
timbre
Signal Detection Theory
pancreas
anterograde amnesia
23. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal
James-Lange theory of emotion
Altruism
median
Latency Stage
24. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged
Child abuse
recessive gene
fluid intelligence
ethnocentrism
25. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.
Deindividuation
frequency distribution
Prosocial Behavior
Interpretation
26. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
myelin sheath
rehearsal
elaborative rehearsal
Percentile score
27. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
gustation
Psychoanalysis
Formal operational stage
semantic memory
28. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
receptor site
Resolution Phase
parietal lobes
Myopic
29. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
Plateau phase
Gestalt psychology
Circadian Rhythms
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
30. 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
mutation
Substance Abuser
ions
rods
31. Process by which a neutral stimulus takes on conditioned properties through pairing with a conditioned stimulus
Opponent-process theory
Higher-order Conditioning
adaptation
René Descartes
32. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
Stressor
Self-efficacy
Primary Punisher
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
33. 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
Attributions
Ekman & Friesen
Conservation
demand characteristics
34. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them
memory span
engineering psychologist
motivated forgetting
endorphins
35. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
Conflict
preconscious
Token economy
Biofeedback
36. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
Prosocial Behavior
Hans Eysenck
receptor site
Mediation
37. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
myelin sheath
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Secondary Punisher
memory span
38. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
Mary Cover-Jones
Superstitious Behavior
strain studies
variability
39. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.
forensic psychologist
Social Influence
Abnormal Behavior
crystallized intelligence
40. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream
Vasocongestion
psychoanalyst
endocrine glands
endorphins
41. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'
Dependence
adrenal glands
implicit memory
Health psychology
42. 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.
Sucking reflex
norepinephrine
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Social phobia
43. Conditioning in which an increase or decrease in the probability that a behavior will recur is affected by the delivery of reinforcement or punishment as a consequence of the behavior;
Babinski reflex
Operant Conditioning
unconscious
menopause
44. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening
Prosocial Behavior
association areas
Unconditioned Stimulus
Lucid Dream
45. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.
explicit memory
Bystander Effect
Prejudice
Language
46. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes
storage
Placenta
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
endocrine system
47. Neurotransmitter that affects sleep - arousal - mood - appetite; lack of it is linked with depression
Gordon Allport
functional MRI (fMRI)
serotonin
olfaction
48. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
René Descartes
aversive conditioning
Morpheme
Mary Cover-Jones
49. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
Paul Ekman
random sample
Dependence
William Sheldon
50. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle
cochlea
Counterconditioning
Anna Freud
decay
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