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1. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.
Mary Ainsworth
normal distribution
Defense Mechanism
Transduction
2. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law
William Dement
Ernst Weber
Displacement
self-fulfilling prophecy
3. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
Homeostasis
Dissociative disorders
Hans Eysenck
Socrates
4. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
Edward Thorndike
Self-fulfilling prophecy
cohort effect
sensory adaptation
5. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
heritability
human genomes
neuron
Homeostasis
6. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
Excitement phase
Subliminal perception
Ex Post Facto Design
Dissociative amnesia
7. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease
Phineas Gage
axon
William Dement
Psychoneuroimmunology
8. 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
axon
zone of proximal development
Opponent-process theory
Zajonc & Markus
9. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.
long-term memory
Impression Formation
engineering psychologist
Psychotherapy
10. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
Group
anorexia nervosa
self-fulfilling prophecy
humanistic psychology
11. Organ lying between the stomach and small intestine; regulates blood sugar by secreting to regulating hormones insulin and glucagon
convolutions
Dichromats
pancreas
range
12. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain
convolutions
Defense Mechanism
aversive conditioning
Circadian Rhythms
13. The tendency for one characteristic of an individual to influence a tester's evaluation of other characteristics
Charles Spearman
Personal Fable
Operant Conditioning
Halo effect
14. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep
ESP
Insomnia
Counterconditioning
Psychodynamically
15. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
Halo effect
Naturalistic observation
Imaginary Audience
Anxiety
16. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
parietal lobes
Interpersonal Attraction
Carl Jung
Positive Reinforcement
17. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
retrieval
declarative memory
Electromagnetic Radiation
Client-centered therapy
18. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic
Formal operational stage
Psychotic
Ego
Trichromatic theory
19. Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation - they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.
Gender Identity
Sociobiology
strain studies
John Garcia
20. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
retina
heritability
median
Charles Darwin
21. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems
psychoanalyst
Humanistic theory
authoritative parenting
counseling psychologist
22. 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
confounding variable
Sensorimotor stage
Regression
Gender stereotype
23. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
Social Loafing
experimenter bias
Semantics
primacy effect
24. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
occipital lobes
independent variable
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
25. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.
Ego
Creativity
Von Restorff effect
Grammar
26. Netlike system of neurons that weaves through limbic system and plays an important role in attention - arousal - and alert functions; arouses and alerts higher parts of the brain; anesthetics work by temporary shutting off RF system
significant difference
antagonist
Dissociative amnesia
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
27. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
Conservation
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Paul Ekman
acetylcholine (ACh)
28. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
Psychodynamically
Consciousness
serotonin
Concordance rate
29. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable
Excitement phase
debriefing
storage
confounding variable
30. Small area of retina where image is focused
Biofeedback
token economy
memory
fovea
31. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
ex post facto study
(cerebral) cortex
gene
response bias
32. Released by adrenal glands; triggered by norepinephrine to prolong the response to stress (used in the sympathetic nervous system)
Egocentrism
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Descriptive Studies
Working through
33. 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
Resistance
opponent-process theory of emotion
Grasping reflex
thyroid gland
34. The inability to perceive different hues.
Color Blindness
sports psychologist
phenotype
Learning
35. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.
Self-serving Bias
John Garcia
Extinction (operant conditioning)
amnesia
36. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Langer & Rodin
Charles Darwin
Lewis Terman
menopause
37. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
experimental group
sound localization
fluid intelligence
hindbrain
38. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
Reflex
state-dependent learning
hormone
Reliability
39. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
Language
Personal Fable
Judith Langlois
spinal cord
40. Commonly occurring behavior can reinforce a less frequent behavior
Reflex
Premack principle
experiment
transfer appropriate processing
41. 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
Placenta
procedural memory
Morpheme
Reactance
42. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
chromosome
Tolman
B.F. Skinner
Vasocongestion
43. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Need for achievement
Psychotherapy
Aaron Beck
genetics
44. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
Need
Abraham Maslow
demand characteristics
Fixed-ratio Schedule
45. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
storage
Validity
Psychotic
endocrine system
46. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8
Shaping
Fixation
Problem Solving
Metal retardation
47. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
Prototype
Reflex
Drug
Psychodynamically
48. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
René Descartes
Social Psychology
Gender
inhibitory neurotransmitter
49. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
anorexia nervosa
peripheral nervous system
blind spot
Extinction (operant conditioning)
50. Morality based on consequences to self
John Locke
preconventional level of moral development
Heuristics
Types
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