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1. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
median
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Hyperopic
Transference
2. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body
interneurons
Halo effect
set point
Cross-sectional study
3. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.
Conflict
Prevalence
Rooting reflex
amygdala
4. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Manifest Content
Gender Identity
Ex Post Facto Design
5. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works
double-blind procedure
functionalism
psychologist
Algorithm
6. Humanistic psychology; Contributions: founded client-centered therapy - theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth - unconditional positive regard -
neural plasticity
Carl Rogers
Latency Stage
Double bind
7. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)
neural impulse
anterograde amnesia
Stress
Time-out
8. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Monochromats
parathormone
parathyroid
9. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
humanistic psychology
Hyperopic
Gender Schema Theory
triarchic theory of intelligence
10. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
Opponent-process theory
Language
dominant genes
empiricism
11. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all
psychology
all-or-none principle
Learned Helplessness
token economy
12. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception
bottom-up processing
survey research
elaborative rehearsal
Subliminal perception
13. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events
axon
Vasocongestion
Gordon Allport
Sensorimotor stage
14. Transparent covering of the eye
insulin
graded potential
cornea
Manifest Content
15. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
fraternal twins
frontal lobes
inferential statistics
16. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease
Psychoneuroimmunology
cohort effect
difference threshold
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
17. A state of consciousness that occurs during sleep - usually accompanied by vivid visual - tactile - or auditory imagery.
postconventional level of moral development
Law of Effect
Dream
median
18. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics
representative sample
maintenance rehearsal
Subliminal perception
habituation
19. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Circadian Rhythms
nature
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Phoneme
20. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
Hermann Rorschach
Latency Stage
Sensorimotor stage
Teratogen
21. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
motivated forgetting
thalamus
Psychoactive Drug
B.F. Skinner
22. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
Socrates
Francis Galton
Kurt Lewin
instinct
23. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
Reaction Formation
descriptive statistics
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
dualism
24. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses
elaborative rehearsal
Conflict
bottom-up processing
forensic psychologist
25. The biologically based categories of male and female
cornea
Sex
Langer & Rodin
Gender stereotype
26. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
sensory neurons
Dark adaptation
ex post facto study
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
27. 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
Conditioning
Primary Punisher
David Rosenhan
difference threshold
28. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
Spontaneous Recovery
Dissociative disorders
kinesthesis
Robert Sternberg
29. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
hippocampus
Brightness
Hermann Rorschach
representative sample
30. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'
bottom-up processing
Motivation
Shaping
thalamus
31. The human need to fulfill one's potential
John Garcia
self-actualization
Discrimination
participant
32. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area
Orgasm phase
Cognitive Dissonance
Moro reflex
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
33. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
Reactance
Rosenhan
postconventional level of moral development
Androgynous
34. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time
Type B behavior
Longitudinal Study
Stereotypes
inferential statistics
35. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
amygdala
Group
Impression Formation
Anna Freud
36. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose
response bias
association areas
temporal lobes
Plateau phase
37. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.
Anal Stage
Equity Theory
Social Influence
Stanley Schachter
38. Inability to understand or use language
Insomnia
recessive gene
aphasia
Latent Learning
39. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
declarative memory
hypothesis
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Carl Jung
40. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
educational psychologist
Gordon Allport
psychobiology
significant difference
41. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and longstanding maladaptive behaviors that typically cause stress and/or social or occupational problems.
B.F. Skinner
Social Need
Erik Erikson
Personality disorders
42. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
working memory
Approach-avoidance conflict
preconscious
Abnormal Behavior
43. 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
Androgynous
midbrain
ex post facto study
Grasping reflex
44. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Validity
Self-fulfilling prophecy
nervous system
Classical Conditioning
45. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Lewis Terman
parasympathetic nervous system
Double-blind techniques
Gibson & Walk
46. The extent to which scores differ from one another
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
imagery
variability
cognitive psychology
47. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
Factor analysis
Reliability
Psychoactive Drug
humanistic psychology
48. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.
adaptation
descriptive statistics
Positive Reinforcement
Self-serving Bias
49. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
family studies
social psychologist
Fixation
Elaboration Likelihood Model
50. Twins from a single fertilized egg (zygote) with the same genetic makeup; also called monozygotic (MZ) twins
identical twins
amygdala
evolutionary psychology
Social Psychology