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1. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience
psychobiology
hindbrain
Socrates
gate control theory
2. Ability of the visual perceptual system to recognize that an object remains constant in size regardless of its distance from the observer or the size of its image on the retina.
Size constancy
Humanistic theory
Decentration
experiment
3. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.
Moro reflex
B.F. Skinner
William Dement
limbic system
4. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Abnormal psychology
Ekman & Friesen
neuroscience
5. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems
psychoanalyst
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Social Categorization
Absolute threshold
6. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)
serotonin
moral development
William Sheldon
temporal lobes
7. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)
Personality
bulimia nervosa
Alfred Adler
Wechsler intelligence tests
8. A branch of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body functions; it calms the body after sympathetic stimulation
Manifest Content
consolidation
Mary Cover-Jones
parasympathetic nervous system
9. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
synaptic vesicles
Representative sample
Types
Elaboration Likelihood Model
10. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data
sympathetic nervous system
Factor analysis
nervous system
Descriptive Studies
11. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age
Martin Seligman
Karen Horney
adaptation
fluid intelligence
12. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
Learning
Self-perception Theory
pupil
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
13. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
Extinction (classical conditioning)
neurogenesis
Motive
Zygote
14. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life
psychologist
Double-blind techniques
nervous system
Lewis Terman
15. 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
Fixed-ratio Schedule
chromosome
ex post facto study
16. 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
naturalistic observation
midbrain
Variable-interval Schedule
Heuristics
17. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.
Major depressive disorder
Jean Piaget
Psychoactive Drug
theory
18. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population
standard deviation
Heritability
structuralism
Cognitive Dissonance
19. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Fetus
Erik Erikson
Receptive fields
Monochromats
20. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.
Biofeedback
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Semantics
occipital lobes
21. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.
Daniel Goleman
ethnocentrism
Group therapy
Means-ends analysis
22. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Sensation
Cross-sectional Studies
pituitary gland
23. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance
Robert Yerkes
Morality
brain
Psychosurgery
24. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after predetermined but varying amounts of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once after each interval
Preoperational stage
antagonist
Variable-interval Schedule
David Weschler
25. 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
normal distribution
Agoraphobia
Orgasm phase
genetics
26. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
Resolution Phase
midbrain
Preconscious
Logic
27. A person's sense of being male or female
hindbrain
Gender Identity
olfaction
Family therapy
28. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
timbre
Genital Stage
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
29. 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'
preconventional level of moral development
gustation
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
pituitary gland
30. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
mutation
Excitement phase
correlation coefficient
scientific method
31. Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.
Group Polarization
engineering psychologist
Carl Rogers
Rape
32. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
Temperament
motivated forgetting
sympathetic nervous system
Self-actualization
33. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
Longitudinal Study
Representative sample
educational psychologist
34. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
mutation
Psychoactive Drug
Normal curve
Subgoal analysis
35. Neurotransmitter that affects sleep - arousal - mood - appetite; lack of it is linked with depression
DNA
Punishment
Hyperopic
serotonin
36. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Charles Darwin
psychometrician
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Overjustification effect
37. Period of development from conception until birth
standard deviation
sensory memory
long-term memory
prenatal development
38. Growth in the ability to tell right from wrong - control impulses - and act ethically
cones
Debriefing
Robert Rosenthal
moral development
39. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Metal retardation
semantic memory
Psychophysics
Social Psychology
40. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
Holmes & Rahe
Fixed-interval Schedule
Approach-avoidance conflict
Trichromats
41. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
central nervous system
Stanley Schachter
triarchic theory of intelligence
Attachment
42. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism
Albert Ellis
standard deviation
Monochromats
Collective Unconscious
43. Fixed - overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.
encoding
Gordon Allport
Lucid Dream
Stereotypes
44. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
Algorithm
Secondary Sex Characteristics
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Preconscious
45. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data
dopamine
Self-efficacy
psychometrician
(cerebral) cortex
46. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
Self-efficacy
Placebo effect
variability
Trichromats
47. 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
cohort effect
Charles Darwin
scientific method
Absolute threshold
48. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body
set point
binocular cues
Aristotle
occipital lobes
49. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.
Convergent thinking
Concept
David Rosenhan
Dissociative amnesia
50. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
Bulimia Nervosa
Deviation IQ
Nonverbal Communication
Dissociative amnesia