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1. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
Conditioned Stimulus
Trait
school psychologist
motor neurons
2. Freud's first stage of personality development - from birth to about age 2 - during which the instincts of infants are focused on the mouth as the primary pleasure center.
Oral Stage
Reactance
Rationalization
Ekman & Friesen
3. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
split brain patients
functionalism
Rosenhan
4. Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people - ideas - or objects that are based on a person's past experiences - shape his or her future behavior - and are evaluative in nature.
psychoanalyst
visual acuity
sports psychologist
Attitudes
5. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
epinephrine
Sex
Algorithm
Case study
6. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
Reactance
dominant genes
aversive conditioning
Secondary Reinforcer
7. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
empiricism
population
Carl Jung
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
8. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)
Robert Sternberg
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
parallel processing
midbrain
9. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.
Developmental Psychology
Superego
procedural memory
Stressor
10. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
standard deviation
Impression Formation
Harry Stack Sullivan
Gender Schema Theory
11. Sharpness of vision
variability
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Egocentrism
visual acuity
12. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
William Sheldon
myelin sheath
Interpersonal Attraction
thalamus
13. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Prejudice
Motive
14. Experience of the difference threshold
fraternal twins
corpus callosum
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
just noticeable difference (JND)
15. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
Carl Rogers
long-term potentiation
Attachment
percentile score
16. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems
psychoanalyst
Superstitious Behavior
motive
Cross-sectional Studies
17. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons
storage
menarche
B.F. Skinner
Gestalt psychology
18. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts
parietal lobes
Law of Effect
neuropsychologist
monism
19. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
gate control theory
Decision making
Convergent thinking
Heritability
20. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall
Anna O.
acetylcholine (ACh)
Law of Effect
Circadian Rhythms
21. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
humanistic psychology
visual acuity
consolidation
Need for achievement
22. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.
Standardization
percentile score
Displacement
demand characteristics
23. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
Judith Langlois
Consciousness
Secondary Reinforcer
antagonist
24. Depth cues that are based on one eye
monocular cues
Karen Horney
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
case study
25. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
Secondary Sex Characteristics
resting potential
amnesia
Concordance rate
26. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent
pseudoscience
Clark Hull
nervous system
retrieval
27. The tendency for one characteristic of an individual to influence a tester's evaluation of other characteristics
adaptation
Halo effect
Algorithm
Carol Gilligan
28. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body
Transference
kinesthesis
motive
Nonverbal Communication
29. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
twin studies
Placebo effect
rods
Reasoning
30. A branch of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body functions; it calms the body after sympathetic stimulation
Imaginary Audience
parasympathetic nervous system
frequency
Superego
31. Morality based on consequences to self
split brain patients
synapse
preconventional level of moral development
Opponent-process theory
32. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups
hypothalamus
photoreceptors
Concordance rate
counseling psychologist
33. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
Heritability
sensory adaptation
Trichromats
Phallic Stage
34. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
David McClelland
instinct
Ivan Pavlov
transfer appropriate processing
35. Theorist who both aided in the development of the trichromatic theory of color perception and Place theory of pitch perception.
emotional intelligence
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Herman von Helmholtz
Opponent-process theory
36. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions
Stanley Milgram
efferent neuron nerve
Need
Sex
37. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
flashbulb memories
Self-serving Bias
Latent Learning
38. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Gender Schema Theory
Fetus
sensory neurons
39. Small area of retina where image is focused
sociocultural psychology
fovea
Aristotle
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
40. 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.
Appraisal
Abnormal Behavior
Dream analysis
Means-ends analysis
41. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
brain
Aversive counterconditioning
nature-nurture controversy
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
42. The biologically based categories of male and female
cohort effect
Social Cognition
Sex
behavioral genetics
43. Colored part of the eye that regulates size of pupil
cerebellum
Fetus
iris
cohort effect
44. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.
rods
Resilience
Symptom substitution
central nervous system
45. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
frequency distribution
Dissociative amnesia
hormone
Vasocongestion
46. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Social Psychology
Reactance
Attitudes
47. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned
nature-nurture controversy
Primary Reinforcer
Demand characteristics
ESP
48. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
Personality disorders
Mainstreaming
experimenter bias
Circadian Rhythms
49. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
Darley & Latane
Edward Bradford Titchener
Wolpe
Superstitious Behavior
50. Study of the brain and nervous system; overlaps with psychobiology
Moro reflex
neuroscience
nature
amygdala
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