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1. Process by which a neutral stimulus takes on conditioned properties through pairing with a conditioned stimulus
gustation
insulin
Higher-order Conditioning
Raymond Cattell
2. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
Deviation IQ
Child abuse
thyroid gland
Hue
3. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching
Imaginary Audience
scientific method
Group Polarization
Semantics
4. Neutral stimulus that - through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus - begins to elicit a conditioned response
ex post facto study
statistics
imagery
Conditioned Stimulus
5. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)
kinesthesis
Wechsler intelligence tests
Body Language
timbre
6. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval
natural selection
Fixed-interval Schedule
endocrine glands
variability
7. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.
retrieval
Ego
Spontaneous Recovery
Syntax
8. 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
anterograde amnesia
synaptic cleft
Phineas Gage
Case study
9. Biologist; developed theory of evolution; transmutation of species - natural selection - evolution by common descent; 'The Origin of Species' catalogs his voyage on The Beagle
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
William James
Charles Darwin
sociocultural psychology
10. An environmental stimulus that affects an organism in physically or psychologically injurious ways - usually producing anxiety - tension - and physiological arousal
dominant genes
Stressor
Anna O.
Type A behavior
11. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
human genomes
Bystander Effect
Family therapy
Burnout
12. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.
Grammar
John Locke
Cognitive Psychology
Broca's area
13. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Equity Theory
Unconscious
placebo
educational psychologist
14. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Carl Rogers
Debriefing
polarization
Insight therapy
15. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Phineas Gage
range
zone of proximal development
16. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
timbre
normal distribution
bulimia nervosa
Family therapy
17. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
Impression Formation
psychobiology
Reaction Formation
Extrinsic motivation
18. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
René Descartes
thalamus
Hermann Ebbinghaus
central nervous system
19. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Fixation
Id
clinical psychologist
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
20. An individual's genetic make-up
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
genotype
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Tolman
21. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time
Unconscious
correlational research
episodic memory
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
22. 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'
Embryo
olfaction
Manifest Content
pituitary gland
23. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
Unconscious
authoritative parenting
Unconditioned Response
excitatory neurotransmitter
24. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
David Rosenhan
Model
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
educational psychologist
25. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body
neuron
parallel processing
cones
schema
26. Moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication
Raw score
Backward search
Lawrence Kohlberg
procedural memory
27. 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.
Aaron Beck
Stereotypes
aphasia
Counterconditioning
28. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships
Manifest Content
Social Need
Operant Conditioning
Social Psychology
29. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
Object permanence
Adolescence
Hans Eysenck
Personal Fable
30. Establish the relationship between two variables
retrieval
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Drive
correlational research
31. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
lens
phenotype
control group
nervous system
32. Piaget's thrid stage of cognitive development (lasting from approximately age 6 or 7 to age 11 or 12) - during which the child develops the ability to understand constant factors in the environment - rules - and higher-order symbolic systems
lens
Aristotle
Reaction Formation
Concrete operational stage
33. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.
mean
fovea
dependent variable
Sociobiology
34. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
Social Facilitation
response bias
long-term potentiation
developmental psychologist
35. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
Concrete operational stage
parietal lobes
Babinski reflex
Heritability
36. The process by which the location of sound is determined
Conflict
sound localization
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Consciousness
37. Areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions - rather - they are involved in higher mental processes such as thinking - planning - and communicating
Counterconditioning
gate control theory
association areas
retrieval
38. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
Alzheimer's Disease
Carl Jung
operational definition
Latency Stage
39. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh
cochlea
Circadian Rhythms
Karl Wernicke
Darley & Latane
40. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
encoding
Stimulant
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Humanistic theory
41. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.
semantic memory
Systematic desensitization
Residual type of schizophrenia
descriptive statistics
42. The study of the psychological and medical aspects of death and dying
Thanatology
Sociobiology
Denial
functionalism
43. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'
adrenal glands
decay
Saccades
Aaron Beck
44. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
James-Lange theory of emotion
Shaping
Rationalization
Discrimination
45. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
humanistic psychology
pons
nervous system
Alfred Binet
46. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
Phallic Stage
Debriefing
David Weschler
Consciousness
47. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea
David Rosenhan
Mary Cover-Jones
retroactive interference
Resistance
48. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Psychophysics
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
menopause
Latency Stage
49. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Robert Rosenthal
set point
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
efferent neuron nerve
50. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
correlational research
Daniel Goleman
structuralism
Collective Unconscious
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