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1. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research
Lev Vygotsky
Von Restorff effect
Motivation
Self-actualization
2. 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.
Specific phobia
Sensation
Adolescence
Social phobia
3. The second level of the three organizational structures of the brain that receives signals from other parts of the brain or spinal cord and either relays the information to other parts of the brain or causes the body to act immediately; involved in m
retroactive interference
nurture
Secondary Punisher
midbrain
4. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
just noticeable difference (JND)
Stereotypes
Equity Theory
Decentration
5. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism
Primary Punisher
preconventional level of moral development
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Libido
6. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
Drive
axon
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Unconditioned Stimulus
7. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
ions
neurotransmitters
decay
neuropsychologist
8. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
monocular cues
Longitudinal Study
Sucking reflex
Burnout
9. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
Subliminal perception
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Psychodynamically
Representative sample
10. Released by adrenal glands; triggered by norepinephrine to prolong the response to stress (used in the sympathetic nervous system)
anterograde amnesia
Heuristics
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Social Psychology
11. Small area of retina where image is focused
fovea
Reaction Formation
Insomnia
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
12. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses
debriefing
photoreceptors
Oedipus Complex
dopamine
13. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
endocrine glands
Working through
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
sample
14. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body
neuron
token economy
graded potential
interference
15. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
Social Cognition
glial cells
population
Factor analysis
16. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
primacy effect
Attachment
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
confounding variable
17. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
Gender stereotype
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
frequency distribution
Token economy
18. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
monocular cues
Social Psychology
achievement test
storage
19. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
bottom-up processing
Agoraphobia
Raymond Cattell
hypnosis
20. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
Primary Reinforcer
memory
Saccades
Moro reflex
21. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
Reflex
Factor analysis
Puberty
Aristotle
22. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
achievement test
Unconditioned Response
psychometrician
Erik Erikson
23. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.
Stimulus Generalization
Gazzaniga or Sperry
triarchic theory of intelligence
Phoneme
24. First menstrual period
Gibson & Walk
elaborative rehearsal
visual acuity
menarche
25. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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26. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
Perception
Libido
pupil
limbic system
27. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
Latency Stage
sensory memory
Preoperational stage
experimenter bias
28. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
anterograde amnesia
motive
frequency polygon
mutation
29. Process in which the sense organs' receptor cells are stimulated and relay initial information to higher brain centers for further processing.
Walter B. Cannon
Sensation
Mediation
Superstitious Behavior
30. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
Punishment
Grasping reflex
Heritability
Id
31. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill
placebo
retrieval
Color Blindness
Defense Mechanism
32. Morality based on consequences to self
preconventional level of moral development
sympathetic nervous system
median
psychoanalyst
33. 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
nerve
Hobson & McCarley
Psychodynamically
Temperament
34. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
rods
Client-centered therapy
Anna Freud
35. 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
Circadian Rhythms
motor projection areas
Abraham Maslow
Counterconditioning
36. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
Placenta
median
dependent variable
Tolerance
37. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood
functional MRI (fMRI)
Puberty
Wilhelm Wundt
Backward search
38. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
Prevalence
Shaping
Reinforcer
Myopic
39. The evaluation of the significance of a situation or event as it relates to a person's well-being
Social Interest
participant
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Appraisal
40. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep
hypothalamus
levels-of-processing approach
Insomnia
Experimental design
41. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints
Latent Learning
evolutionary psychology
thalamus
Decentration
42. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
chromosome
strain studies
Reliability
Dementia
43. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
Clark Hull
family studies
Superstitious Behavior
dopamine
44. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
variable
developmental psychologist
Dissociative disorders
Psychophysics
45. 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.
Expectancy Theories
Syntax
synaptic vesicles
Saturation
46. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
cornea
variability
flashbulb memories
natural selection
47. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment
Need for achievement
William James
Thanatology
Reaction Formation
48. 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.
recency effect
anorexia nervosa
social psychologist
Self
49. 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
imagery
Discrimination
social psychologist
Lawrence Kohlberg
50. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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