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1. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
Descriptive Studies
population
Self-efficacy
Child abuse
2. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information
bottom-up processing
Spontaneous Recovery
retroactive interference
Group Polarization
3. The expression of genes
phenotype
serotonin
Depressive disorders
Signal Detection Theory
4. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.
Heritability
Mainstreaming
Longitudinal Study
Grammar
5. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory
moral development
functionalism
Phineas Gage
retrieval
6. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
aversive conditioning
ex post facto study
Myopic
Anna Freud
7. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them
Dark adaptation
Bulimia Nervosa
Dream
motivated forgetting
8. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent
psychology
Concrete operational stage
Extrinsic motivation
pseudoscience
9. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
Burnout
explicit memory
Embryo
cerebellum
10. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
naturalistic observation
Aversive counterconditioning
token economy
measure of central tendency
11. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume
Conservation
statistics
experiment
Saturation
12. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
encoding
episodic memory
Bulimia Nervosa
13. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher
significant difference
Erik Erikson
Skinner Box
DNA
14. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
neural plasticity
memory span
experimental group
Brainstorming
15. The process by which the probability of an organism's emitting a response is reduced when reinforcement no longer follows the response
Judith Langlois
David McClelland
Anna O.
Extinction (operant conditioning)
16. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
strain studies
mean
midbrain
(cerebral) cortex
17. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.
Stressor
Child abuse
Type B behavior
psychoanalyst
18. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
Group Polarization
Classical Conditioning
Robert Zajonc
Teratogen
19. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.
Phobic disorders
nervous system
consolidation
Assessment
20. Psychoanalytic technique in which a person is asked to report to the therapist his or her thoughts and feelings as they occur - regardless of how trivial - illogical - or objectionable their content may appear.
amygdala
Specific phobia
hypothesis
Free association
21. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.
Fulfillment
Assessment
natural selection
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
22. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
Linguistics
dopamine
Stress
Insight therapy
23. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues
Bystander Effect
James-Lange theory of emotion
forensic psychologist
Socrates
24. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior
Ageism
Phineas Gage
kinesthesis
Motivation
25. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Ernst Weber
Double-blind techniques
Adolescence
Linguistics
26. 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
procedural memory
midbrain
optic nerve
Gibson & Walk
27. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.
long-term memory
cones
audition
Types
28. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
Means-ends analysis
Psychophysics
adaptation
29. A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable behavior.
Hue
cones
procedural memory
Aversive counterconditioning
30. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments
Conservation
behaviorism
midbrain
Gender stereotype
31. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.
Projective Tests
Myopic
Socrates
Harry Harlow
32. 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
Working through
mutation
Personal Fable
independent variable
33. The suppression of one bit of information by another
Rosenthal & Jacobson
forebrain
interference
Personality disorders
34. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
Hyperopic
Ageism
Self-efficacy
olfaction
35. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
Stress
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Lev Vygotsky
Gender Schema Theory
36. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands
fluid intelligence
schema
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Arousal
37. Visual theory - proposed by Herring - that color is coded by stimulation of three types of paired receptors; each pair of receptors is assumed to operate in an antagonist way so that stimulation by a given wavelength produces excitation (increased fi
Extrinsic motivation
Linguistics
split brain patients
Opponent-process theory
38. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
empiricism
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Object permanence
Concept
39. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters
synaptic vesicles
Insomnia
experimenter bias
Stimulus Discrimination
40. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
bottom-up processing
Groupthink
structuralism
rods
41. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior
Harry Stack Sullivan
Biofeedback
Dependence
Emotion
42. 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
psychobiology
neuropsychologist
limbic system
glial cells
43. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
Zajonc & Markus
counseling psychologist
Charles Spearman
Martin Seligman
44. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
Leon Festinger
bottom-up processing
anorexia nervosa
Id
45. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
Tolman
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
relative refractory period
Wilhelm Wundt
46. Primary area for processing visual information
occipital lobes
adrenal glands
Concept
mode
47. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
Aaron Beck
Hans Eysenck
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Alfred Binet
48. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids
Stanley Schachter
Bystander Effect
parathormone
recessive gene
49. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
Trichromats
Puberty
Decision making
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
50. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
nerve
postconventional level of moral development
sensory memory
Motivation
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