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1. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Langer & Rodin
Longitudinal Study
Intelligence
Percentile score
2. The increase in sensitivity to light that occurs when the illumination level changes from high to low - causing chemicals in the rods and cones to regenerate and return to their inactive state.
Dark adaptation
Debriefing
Henry Murray
Cognitive theories
3. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Representative sample
preconscious
informed consent
4. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
state-dependent learning
achievement test
psychoanalyst
chromosome
5. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
Self-efficacy
habituation
Cross-sectional study
Gender stereotype
6. 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
self-fulfilling prophecy
semantic memory
Humanistic theory
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
7. Moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication
Lawrence Kohlberg
experiment
Stimulant
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
8. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
Superego
Lucid Dream
Health psychology
graded potential
9. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
cochlea
placebo effect
experimental group
Archetypes
10. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
health psychologist
acetylcholine (ACh)
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Albert Ellis
11. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall
Anna O.
corpus callosum
Algorithm
motivated forgetting
12. Occurs when recall is better for a distinctive item - even if it occurs in the middle of a list
motive
Von Restorff effect
inferential statistics
Client-centered therapy
13. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic
Generalized anxiety disorder
informed consent
Formal operational stage
Sociobiology
14. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.
just noticeable difference (JND)
normal distribution
Reactance
Conditioning
15. Organ lying between the stomach and small intestine; regulates blood sugar by secreting to regulating hormones insulin and glucagon
pancreas
Aggression
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
response bias
16. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
monocular cues
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
nervous system
peripheral nervous system
17. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)
empiricism
Approach-avoidance conflict
Hue
William Sheldon
18. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
occipital lobes
Lawrence Kohlberg
developmental psychologist
Debriefing
19. A number that expresses the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables - ranging from -1 to +1
fraternal twins
Gender stereotype
John Locke
correlation coefficient
20. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter
Rooting reflex
statistics
nerve
agonist
21. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
prenatal development
sensory memory
Sensation
social psychologist
22. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
Decision making
Impression Formation
normal distribution
Benjamin Whorf
23. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
neuropsychologist
Behavior therapy
Photoreceptors
Halo effect
24. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
phenotype
Drive
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Psychoneuroimmunology
25. 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.
convolutions
Secondary Reinforcer
Discrimination
Attitudes
26. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
difference threshold
timbre
Withdrawal Symptoms
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
27. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
explicit memory
Residual type of schizophrenia
psychoanalytic
Group therapy
28. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
variable
Vasocongestion
sympathetic nervous system
frontal lobes
29. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature
Norms
Dementia
Von Restorff effect
Hermann Ebbinghaus
30. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions
graded potential
triarchic theory of intelligence
Robert Rosenthal
token economy
31. The sense of hearing
audition
informed consent
Rape
Motive
32. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s
corpus callosum
Appraisal
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
antagonist
33. Small area of retina where image is focused
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Factor analysis
timbre
fovea
34. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
zone of proximal development
Schizophrenic disorders
dualism
frontal lobes
35. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses
Ivan Pavlov
Delusions
Hermann Ebbinghaus
photoreceptors
36. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place
nervous system
social psychologist
Resistance
Positive Reinforcement
37. Carries impulses from the eye to the brain
functionalism
eclectic
Francis Galton
optic nerve
38. An observable action
cornea
behavior
nonconscious
Resistance
39. An insight therapy - developed be Carl Rogers - that seeks to help people evaluate the world and themselves from their own perspective by providing them with a nondirective environment and unconditional positive regard; also known as person-centered
Prejudice
midbrain
Client-centered therapy
Hobson & McCarley
40. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
significant difference
(cerebral) cortex
41. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
encoding specificity principle
optic nerve
Residual type of schizophrenia
cornea
42. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
instinct
myelin sheath
chunks
Arousal
43. Able to see objects at a distance clearly but having trouble seeing things up close; farsighted
Homeostasis
heritability
Hyperopic
normal distribution
44. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
Preconscious
Longitudinal Study
Wilhelm Wundt
evolutionary psychology
45. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands
timbre
Alzheimer's Disease
axon
family studies
46. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
Blood-Brain Barrier
Nonverbal Communication
working memory
Social Facilitation
47. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Clark Hull
empiricism
Object permanence
48. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross
positive psychology
Motivation
Homeostasis
Blood-Brain Barrier
49. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
humanistic psychology
Law of Effect
refractory period
Aaron Beck
50. Memory; studied memorization of meaningless words
pitch
Kenneth Clark
observer bias
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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