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1. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
Ekman & Friesen
fluid intelligence
percentile score
Karl Wernicke
2. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.
split brain patients
Body Language
independent variable
Aaron Beck
3. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
emotional intelligence
afferent neuron nerve
Edward Thorndike
4. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.
neurogenesis
Social Psychology
Embryo
Charles Spearman
5. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh
Brightness
cornea
Circadian Rhythms
bottom-up processing
6. The process by which the location of sound is determined
Gender Schema Theory
sound localization
Vasocongestion
Masters & Johnson
7. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.
Homeostasis
Types
limbic system
Grasping reflex
8. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
Free association
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Norms
Longitudinal Study
9. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
Social Categorization
lens
counseling psychologist
Type A behavior
10. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
Self-efficacy
Psychoneuroimmunology
Self-perception Theory
Phineas Gage
11. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Vulnerability
Resolution Phase
hypnosis
Higher-order Conditioning
12. The first person to study memory scientifically and systematically; used nonsense syllables and recorded how many times he had to study a list to remember it well
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Psychosurgery
Hermann Rorschach
Obedience
13. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
nervous system
implicit memory
Percentile score
Extinction (classical conditioning)
14. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
David Weschler
Aristotle
Anorexia Nervosa
Type B behavior
15. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
Transduction
Operant Conditioning
interneurons
Aaron Beck
16. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
moral development
midbrain
habituation
polygenic inheritance
17. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)
Karl Wernicke
Robert Sternberg
Subliminal perception
Phonology
18. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
decay
Halo effect
selective attention
anorexia nervosa
19. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Need for achievement
synaptic vesicles
David Rosenhan
20. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)
family studies
theory
Resolution Phase
William Sheldon
21. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
parallel processing
agonist
normal distribution
Embryo
22. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
spinal cord
Counterconditioning
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
relative refractory period
23. Devised theory of multiple intelligences: logical-mathematic - spatial - bodily-kinesthetic - intrapersonal - linguistic - musical - interpersonal - naturalistic
Prevalence
Backward search
Sublimation
Howard Gardner
24. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body
Phillip Zimbardo
Punishment
kinesthesis
brain
25. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons
informed consent
Harry Harlow
Discrimination
B.F. Skinner
26. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'
Excitement phase
evolutionary psychology
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
pituitary gland
27. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords
sensory neurons
Wechsler intelligence tests
binocular cues
Personality
28. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned
Conditioning
cones
Robert Yerkes
ethics
29. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
Raymond Cattell
Saccades
motor neurons
Positive Reinforcement
30. Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.
Ageism
Moro reflex
insulin
Aggression
31. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
synapse
demand characteristics
Stimulant
32. The expression of genes
phenotype
demand characteristics
experimental group
nerve
33. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Wernicke's area
Overjustification effect
ex post facto study
Debriefing
34. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
motivated forgetting
Brightness
Withdrawal Symptoms
sympathetic nervous system
35. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
shaping
anterograde amnesia
Client-centered therapy
midbrain
36. The depth and richness of a hue determined by determined by the homogeneity of the wavelengths contained in the reflected light; also known as purity.
Saturation
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
genetics
glial cells
37. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged
Critical Period
positive psychology
achievement test
ethnocentrism
38. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
forebrain
Albert Bandura
decay
Convergent thinking
39. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
Ex Post Facto Design
Experimental design
Benjamin Whorf
motor projection areas
40. 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
Social Cognition
midbrain
Dichromats
Attributions
41. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.
cones
Anorexia Nervosa
Transduction
Ego
42. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
self-actualization
Photoreceptors
timbre
Type A behavior
43. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
Skinner Box
double-blind procedure
Wilhelm Wundt
independent variable
44. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
Perception
Social Cognition
frequency polygon
Receptive fields
45. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma
Family therapy
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Reinforcer
Conservation
46. 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
Elizabeth Loftus
neural impulse
empiricism
Stimulus Discrimination
47. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
Saccades
neurogenesis
Unconditioned Response
Reasoning
48. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'
Need
cones
human genomes
adrenal glands
49. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches
Trichromatic theory
Social Facilitation
eclectic
Secondary Sex Characteristics
50. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships
Personality disorders
Skinner Box
Social Need
Archetypes