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1. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
Gender Schema Theory
encoding specificity principle
semantic memory
Tolerance
2. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment
mutation
double-blind procedure
gustation
William James
3. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.
Family therapy
Naturalistic observation
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Masters & Johnson
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.
frequency polygon
Equity Theory
Ekman & Friesen
Trichromats
5. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
Stimulus Generalization
Puberty
Zajonc & Markus
Trait
6. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
temporal lobes
Fixation
science
Standardization
7. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.
Working through
motivated forgetting
Zajonc & Markus
hypnosis
8. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
experimental group
debriefing
action potential
Withdrawal Symptoms
9. The process by which the location of sound is determined
gustation
Carol Gilligan
sound localization
Brightness
10. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged
Intrinsic motivation
Assimilation
Embryo
ethnocentrism
11. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Intelligence
Martin Seligman
Trait
12. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.
behaviorism
Grammar
polarization
Herman von Helmholtz
13. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
action potential
Latent Learning
agonist
amygdala
14. The process by which the probability of an organism's emitting a response is reduced when reinforcement no longer follows the response
primacy effect
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Cross-sectional study
measure of central tendency
15. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.
Social Categorization
Darley & Latane
Sex
Time-out
16. An individual's genetic make-up
Norms
genotype
Obedience
Self
17. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
midbrain
Percentile score
fraternal twins
Dichromats
18. Prejudice against the elderly and the resulting discrimination against them
Francis Galton
random sample
cohort effect
Ageism
19. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events
Raw score
genetics
Sensorimotor stage
preconventional level of moral development
20. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics
Case study
Spontaneous Recovery
explicit memory
Means-ends analysis
21. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources
Coping
Anorexia Nervosa
Grasping reflex
hypothalamus
22. Following a strong emotion - an opposing emotion counters the first emotion - lessening the experience of that emotion; on repeated occasions - the opposing emotion becomes stronger
Bonding
opponent-process theory of emotion
glial cells
frequency polygon
23. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues
Denial
implicit memory
Stress
forensic psychologist
24. 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.
Stereotypes
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Stress
Dream
25. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
Means-ends analysis
inferential statistics
Resilience
Genital Stage
26. An unconscious way of reducing anxiety by distorting perceptions of reality.
inferential statistics
Prototype
Defense Mechanism
family studies
27. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary
Gordon Allport
Type B behavior
neuroscience
parathormone
28. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives
acetylcholine (ACh)
cohort effect
endocrine glands
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
29. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
Benjamin Whorf
Abnormal Behavior
frontal lobes
Puberty
30. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
ex post facto study
polarization
adrenal glands
glial cells
31. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
autonomic nervous system
industrial/organizational psychologist
encoding
storage
32. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
Positive Reinforcement
Approach-avoidance conflict
behaviorism
case study
33. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
Nonverbal Communication
Time-out
Decentration
Anxiety
34. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Means-ends analysis
all-or-none principle
Self-actualization
Sucking reflex
35. Memory for specific information
Kurt Lewin
Wernicke's area
declarative memory
Prejudice
36. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
preconscious
Trait
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Subliminal perception
37. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
Teratogen
sound localization
gene
hormone
38. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.
Lucid Dream
Consciousness
Case study
Type A behavior
39. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization
hindbrain
ex post facto study
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
polarization
40. A donut ring-shaped of loosely connected structures located in the forebrain between the central core and cerebral hemispheres; consists of: septum - cingulate gyrus - endowments - hypothalamus - and to campus - and amygdala; associated with emotions
limbic system
Signal Detection Theory
implicit memory
sensory memory
41. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
spinal cord
Brightness
Wechsler intelligence tests
Photoreceptors
42. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.
independent variable
Creativity
Bystander Effect
Imaginary Audience
43. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance
EEG (electroencephalogram)
neuropsychologist
Robert Yerkes
storage
44. Period of development from conception until birth
prenatal development
Arousal
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
positive psychology
45. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
David McClelland
aversive conditioning
hypnosis
Residual type of schizophrenia
46. 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.
Oedipus Complex
descriptive statistics
forensic psychologist
Darley & Latane
47. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
Attributions
(cerebral) cortex
Approach-approach conflict
behavioral genetics
48. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
Social Categorization
Displacement
Burnout
Assimilation
49. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Factor analysis
Cognitive Psychology
Ekman & Friesen
50. Shift in electrical charge in a tiny area of the neuron (temporary); transmits a long cell membranes leaving neuron and polarized state; needs higher than normal threshold of excitation to fire
Attributions
recency effect
graded potential
rods
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