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1. A need or want that causes someone to act
Jean Piaget
all-or-none principle
motive
Social Need
2. 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;
Operant Conditioning
implicit memory
blind spot
double-blind procedure
3. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
significant difference
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Psychophysics
Fixation
4. Does research on how people function best with machines
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
engineering psychologist
normal distribution
proactive interference
5. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
neurotransmitters
Subgoal analysis
Critical Period
Raw score
6. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
habituation
Secondary Reinforcer
elaborative rehearsal
Psychoactive Drug
7. 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
hypothalamus
Free association
Albert Bandura
lens
8. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
Prosocial Behavior
Social Loafing
Psychosurgery
Assimilation
9. Noradrenaline; chemical which is excitatory - similar to adrenaline - and affects arousal and memory; raises blood pressure by causing blood vessels to become constricted - but also carried by bloodstream to the anterior pituitary which relaxes ACTH
Preoperational stage
Bonding
norepinephrine
Dependence
10. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste
representative sample
Stressor
Abnormal psychology
glial cells
11. In Roger's theory of personality - the perception an individual has of himself or herself and of his or her relationships to other people and to various aspects of life.
Decision making
Self
twin studies
school psychologist
12. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
recessive gene
Langer & Rodin
placebo effect
Coping
13. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and longstanding maladaptive behaviors that typically cause stress and/or social or occupational problems.
retrieval
Personality disorders
Homeostasis
nervous system
14. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
Self-efficacy
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Phallic Stage
endocrine glands
15. Response to the belief that the IV will have an effect - rather than the IV's actual effect - which can be a confounding variable
Sociobiology
placebo effect
Resilience
Reflex
16. Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.
Group Polarization
Brainstorming
Robert Yerkes
Unconscious
17. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.
neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology
primacy effect
Abraham Maslow
18. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.
Latent Content
Denial
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Motive
19. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
Language
hormone
Light
Resistance
20. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Phillip Zimbardo
Gender
Stressor
21. 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)
Jean Piaget
humanistic psychology
Displacement
John Locke
22. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
experiment
Placebo effect
theory
23. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
survey research
Ego
limbic system
hypnosis
24. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time
imagery
Longitudinal Study
Grammar
Anxiety
25. When a neuron is in polarization; more negative ions are inside the neuron cell membrane with a positive ions on the outside - causing a small electrical charge; release of this charge generates a neuron's impulse (signal/message)
Case study
Dissociative disorders
inferential statistics
resting potential
26. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
postconventional level of moral development
Ego
Color Blindness
Reaction Formation
27. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.
Overjustification effect
Rationalization
Myopic
Types
28. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions
midbrain
nervous system
hormone
Optic chiasm
29. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving
Self-actualization
dominant genes
case study
peripheral nervous system
30. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
David Weschler
Motivation
Brainstorming
Latent Learning
31. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works
Classical Conditioning
scientific method
functionalism
Robert Zajonc
32. 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.
Antisocial personality disorder
association areas
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Major depressive disorder
33. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
Convergent thinking
Carol Gilligan
Residual type of schizophrenia
Subgoal analysis
34. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.
Insight therapy
Reaction Formation
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
confounding variable
35. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.
Discrimination
Assimilation
Grammar
polarization
36. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
Hyperopic
Actor-observer Effect
Schizophrenic disorders
Decision making
37. 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.
Darley & Latane
Monochromats
Superego
Anna O.
38. Fixed - overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.
Major depressive disorder
Projective Tests
Stereotypes
Lewis Terman
39. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities
Photoreceptors
Robert Sternberg
visual acuity
Kurt Lewin
40. Sets of strategies - rather than strict rules - that act as guidelines for discovery-oriented problem solving.
Personal Fable
Case study
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Heuristics
41. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
Collective Unconscious
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Social Need
Panic Attack
42. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
Cross-sectional Studies
Morpheme
Algorithm
frequency polygon
43. 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
relative refractory period
René Descartes
axon terminal
parasympathetic nervous system
44. 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'
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Longitudinal Study
thalamus
Factor analysis
45. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)
Kenneth Clark
Masters & Johnson
Id
Robert Sternberg
46. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
postconventional level of moral development
Descriptive Studies
Secondary Reinforcer
Konrad Lorenz
47. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
Cognitive Dissonance
Social Psychology
Gender
frequency distribution
48. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit
Learning
observer bias
Assessment
Dissociative identity disorder
49. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
Defense Mechanism
Symptom substitution
Impression Formation
elaborative rehearsal
50. 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
triarchic theory of intelligence
Broca's area
synaptic vesicles
decay
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