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1. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series






2. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged






3. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening






4. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior






5. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates






6. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






7. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never






8. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation






9. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.






10. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.






11. The principle that those characteristics and behaviors that help organisms adapt - be fit - and survive will be passed on to successive generations - because flexible - fit individuals have a greater chance of reproduction






12. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.






13. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus






14. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.






15. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.






16. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.






17. Number of wavelengths that pass a point in a given amount of time; determines hue of light and the pitch of a sound






18. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population






19. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human






20. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)






21. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected






22. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)






23. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine






24. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary






25. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation






26. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable






27. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia






28. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant






29. 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






30. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress






31. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus






32. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.






33. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle






34. Humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization - transcendence






35. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.






36. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits






37. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand






38. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility






39. 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.






40. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors






41. Did work on short-term memory






42. The process by which the probability of an organism's emitting a response is reduced when reinforcement no longer follows the response






43. 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






44. Transparent covering of the eye






45. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions






46. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings






47. 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.






48. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment






49. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence






50. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn







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