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1. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females
Opponent-process theory
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
refractory period
Gender stereotype
2. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings
Free association
Anxiety
Robert Zajonc
mutation
3. Neurotransmitter that affects sleep - arousal - mood - appetite; lack of it is linked with depression
serotonin
Functional fixedness
amnesia
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
4. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
Learned helplessness
glial cells
Projection
Zajonc & Markus
5. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
neural plasticity
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Self-perception Theory
Accommodation
6. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
frontal lobes
heritability
Leon Festinger
Transference
7. A descriptive statistic that measures the variability of data from the mean of the sample
cohort effect
standard deviation
menarche
functionalism
8. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
Nonverbal Communication
(cerebral) cortex
Factor analysis
ex post facto study
9. In an experiment - the group of participants to whom a treatment is given
strain studies
experimental group
Formal operational stage
pitch
10. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal
Superstitious Behavior
James-Lange theory of emotion
Excitement phase
identical twins
11. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ
Coping
ESP
Consciousness
Cross-sectional Studies
12. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.
Working through
Homeostasis
Variable-ratio Schedule
aptitude test
13. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Personality disorders
random sample
Validity
Rationalization
14. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
sympathetic nervous system
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Alfred Adler
Superstitious Behavior
15. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
Wilhelm Wundt
strain studies
informed consent
Id
16. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
Vasocongestion
Delusions
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Lucid Dream
17. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Phineas Gage
Operant Conditioning
Spontaneous Recovery
Sucking reflex
18. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function
neuron
genetics
Phineas Gage
aphasia
19. The process by which the location of sound is determined
sound localization
neuropsychologist
Teratogen
Konrad Lorenz
20. 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
Model
state-dependent learning
Harry Stack Sullivan
Hobson & McCarley
21. 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
maintenance rehearsal
Vulnerability
Hermann Rorschach
informed consent
22. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
Experimental design
Wolpe
David Rosenhan
serotonin
23. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
frequency distribution
John Locke
placebo
24. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input
ESP
Skinner Box
imagery
Daniel Goleman
25. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
Phallic Stage
Social Influence
health psychologist
fraternal twins
26. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
correlational research
central nervous system
measure of central tendency
cornea
27. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior
nonconscious
Phillip Zimbardo
Emotion
Arousal
28. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.
Psychoanalysis
Approach-avoidance conflict
Self-serving Bias
gonads
29. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.
Ageism
Latent Content
Judith Langlois
Body Language
30. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.
Manifest Content
Dissociative disorders
Psychotherapy
thalamus
31. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Excitement phase
Prejudice
Delusions
32. 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.
Intimacy
science
Deindividuation
schema
33. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe
Harry Harlow
midbrain
Bonding
Stimulant
34. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
set point
Morality
Gender
Assimilation
35. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience
psychobiology
Syntax
long-term memory
experimental group
36. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age
fluid intelligence
Drug
Dichromats
Overjustification effect
37. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain
receptor site
Working through
gate control theory
theory
38. Neurotransmitter that inhibits firing of neurons; linked with Huntington's disease
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Circadian Rhythms
genotype
placebo effect
39. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
photoreceptors
Ideal Self
Ex Post Facto Design
Actor-observer Effect
40. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.
Dichromats
thyroid gland
Actor-observer Effect
Consciousness
41. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste
informed consent
bottom-up processing
glial cells
Emotion
42. 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.
encoding
Prototype
Concordance rate
Ekman & Friesen
43. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
response bias
limbic system
experimenter bias
Collective Unconscious
44. Cognition and memory; studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony
Bystander Effect
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
spinal cord
Elizabeth Loftus
45. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
fluid intelligence
Fundamental Attribution Error
Metal retardation
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
46. Creates a computerized image using x-rays passed through the brain
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Aaron Beck
Visual cortex
authoritative parenting
47. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
neural impulse
bulimia nervosa
Ideal Self
insulin
48. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Langer & Rodin
Reinforcer
decay
Language
49. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
Wernicke's area
Variable-ratio Schedule
Actor-observer Effect
neural impulse
50. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
midbrain
encoding
Electromagnetic Radiation
Receptive fields
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