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1. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients






2. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood






3. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.






4. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory






5. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking






6. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell






7. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher






8. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat






9. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature






10. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.






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






12. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.






13. Sense of smell






14. Process in which the sense organs' receptor cells are stimulated and relay initial information to higher brain centers for further processing.






15. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp






16. A need or want that causes someone to act






17. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.






18. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.






19. A mass of tissue that is attached to the wall f the uterus and connected to the developing fetus by the umbilical cord; it supplies nutrients and eliminates waste products






20. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed






21. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time






22. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways






23. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands






24. 'Wernicke's area'; discovered area of left temporal lobe that involved language understanding: person damaged in this area uses correct words but they do not make sense






25. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina






26. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.






27. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain






28. Primary area for processing visual information






29. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles






30. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.






31. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success






32. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.






33. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.






34. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)






35. 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






36. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life






37. 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.






38. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill






39. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.






40. 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






41. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence






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






43. 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.






44. 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






45. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.






46. Theorist who both aided in the development of the trichromatic theory of color perception and Place theory of pitch perception.






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






48. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities






49. Bundles of axons






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







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