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1. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
Formal operational stage
maintenance rehearsal
Skinner Box
Circadian Rhythms
2. The process by which the probability of an organism's emitting a response is reduced when reinforcement no longer follows the response
Aggression
Extinction (operant conditioning)
central nervous system
Cognitive Dissonance
3. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands
axon
aptitude test
midbrain
Insight therapy
4. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body
Appraisal
normal distribution
kinesthesis
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
5. A state of mental discomfort arising from a discrepancy between two or more of a person's beliefs or between a person's beliefs and overt behavior.
Collective Unconscious
Cognitive Dissonance
Linguistics
audition
6. The process by which the location of sound is determined
Charles Spearman
Obedience
gonads
sound localization
7. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.
parietal lobes
mutation
Self-actualization
Trichromatic theory
8. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
Object permanence
Health psychology
Subliminal perception
experimenter bias
9. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
association areas
Masters & Johnson
Fetus
efferent neuron nerve
10. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.
psychology
Type B behavior
Linguistics
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
11. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.
forensic psychologist
Dream analysis
emotional intelligence
David McClelland
12. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions
Kurt Lewin
midbrain
Broca's area
emotional intelligence
13. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
Divergent thinking
Carl Jung
Mary Ainsworth
Self-actualization
14. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent
functional MRI (fMRI)
monocular cues
Demand characteristics
case study
15. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information
proactive interference
midbrain
audition
Little Albert
16. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Social Cognition
confounding variable
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
René Descartes
17. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
Negative Reinforcement
nervous system
sample
Survey
18. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality
Projection
forebrain
Secondary Punisher
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
19. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
Social phobia
Gibson & Walk
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Karen Horney
20. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
amygdala
Superstitious Behavior
Generalized anxiety disorder
Deindividuation
21. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.
interneurons
Backward search
preconventional level of moral development
Social Psychology
22. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
normal distribution
dominant genes
Manifest Content
Token economy
23. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned
Conditioning
Latent Content
Karen Horney
Color Blindness
24. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems
Saturation
psychoanalyst
Phoneme
Dissociative identity disorder
25. Observed group differences based on the era when people were born and grew up - exposing them to particular experiences that may affect the results of cross-sectional studies
dopamine
amnesia
Carl Jung
cohort effect
26. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings
photoreceptors
triarchic theory of intelligence
Cognitive Psychology
psychologist
27. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.
hippocampus
naturalistic observation
Oedipus Complex
Schema
28. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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29. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
Bystander Effect
Robert Zajonc
Latent Learning
Assimilation
30. The biologically based categories of male and female
percentile score
Fixation
ESP
Sex
31. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
Substance Abuser
Stanley Schachter
sample
unconscious
32. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
confounding variable
association areas
synapse
Anxiety
33. Ends of axons that secrete neurotransmitters
dendrites
Aristotle
percentile score
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
34. Process in which the sense organs' receptor cells are stimulated and relay initial information to higher brain centers for further processing.
Collective Unconscious
Sensation
Obedience
Walter B. Cannon
35. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Jean Piaget
frequency polygon
adaptation
Representative sample
36. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors
receptor site
Sex
Wilhelm Wundt
amygdala
37. A number that expresses the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables - ranging from -1 to +1
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
correlation coefficient
Brainstorming
Wernicke's area
38. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
Erik Erikson
Fetus
interneurons
Divergent thinking
39. A therapy that is based on the application of learning principles to human behavior and that focuses on changing overt behaviors rather than on understanding subjective feelings - unconscious processes - or motivations; also known as behavior modific
Behavior therapy
Grasping reflex
Egocentrism
placebo effect
40. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
preconscious
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Operant Conditioning
debriefing
41. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter
agonist
Group therapy
experimental group
genetics
42. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
range
Panic Attack
Collective Unconscious
Law of Effect
43. Able to see objects at a distance clearly but having trouble seeing things up close; farsighted
Ego
variability
Body Language
Hyperopic
44. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm
Working through
Law of Effect
epinephrine
Plateau phase
45. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place
Alzheimer's Disease
nervous system
Morpheme
educational psychologist
46. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
structuralism
recency effect
Shaping
René Descartes
47. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
Mary Ainsworth
Ex Post Facto Design
elaborative rehearsal
Discrimination
48. Sense of smell
forebrain
Erik Erikson
olfaction
Psychoanalysis
49. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Social Psychology
Optic chiasm
Carl Rogers
50. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics
token economy
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Trichromatic theory
representative sample
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