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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
Emotion
Lucid Dream
median
Social Facilitation
2. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.
humanistic psychology
Signal Detection Theory
Cognitive theories
Zygote
3. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
acetylcholine (ACh)
neuroscience
Self-serving Bias
Overjustification effect
4. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
empiricism
psychology
Genital Stage
Carl Rogers
5. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
parallel processing
acetylcholine (ACh)
mean
Receptive fields
6. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
population
Dissociative amnesia
heritability
Debriefing
7. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
genetics
Self-actualization
Konrad Lorenz
Carl Rogers
8. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment
Child abuse
achievement test
Moro reflex
Socrates
9. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
axon
Electromagnetic Radiation
Self-actualization
Health psychology
10. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
independent variable
rods
eclectic
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
11. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior
myelin sheath
Carl Rogers
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Motivation
12. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
Deviation IQ
Bonding
Morality
Child abuse
13. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.
fovea
Psychoanalysis
Dementia
Aggression
14. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter
state-dependent learning
Phallic Stage
antagonist
Orgasm phase
15. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Generalized anxiety disorder
Adolescence
Bipolar disorder
16. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
Model
Means-ends analysis
Social Psychology
Motivation
17. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
demand characteristics
Reactance
Brainstorming
18. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Longitudinal Study
Monochromats
Percentile score
Cognitive Psychology
19. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
Negative Reinforcement
demand characteristics
Concrete operational stage
William Dement
20. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.
Working through
Anorexia Nervosa
Latent Learning
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
21. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
behaviorism
semantic memory
Denial
Morpheme
22. Biologist; developed theory of evolution; transmutation of species - natural selection - evolution by common descent; 'The Origin of Species' catalogs his voyage on The Beagle
empiricism
aphasia
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Charles Darwin
23. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
Fixed-interval Schedule
Latent Learning
triarchic theory of intelligence
postconventional level of moral development
24. Intelligence and learning - self-fulfilling prophecy; Study Basics: Researchers misled teachers into believing that certain students had higher IQs. Teachers changed own behaviors and effectively raised the IQ of the randomly chosen students
Drug
synapse
Rosenthal & Jacobson
strain studies
25. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
Stanley Milgram
glial cells
unconscious
just noticeable difference (JND)
26. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
sociocultural psychology
phenotype
control group
Abnormal Behavior
27. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches
eclectic
temporal lobes
Gender
Variable-interval Schedule
28. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
Mary Ainsworth
pituitary gland
identical twins
health psychologist
29. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
Subliminal perception
pupil
William Sheldon
functionalism
30. Occurs when recall is better for a distinctive item - even if it occurs in the middle of a list
Von Restorff effect
Sociobiology
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Conditioned Stimulus
31. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.
ethics
excitatory neurotransmitter
Bystander Effect
preconventional level of moral development
32. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
endorphins
Vasocongestion
elaborative rehearsal
Unconditioned Stimulus
33. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Hobson & McCarley
bottom-up processing
Ideal Self
34. Top of the spinal column
Circadian Rhythms
motivated forgetting
brainstem
Psychodynamically
35. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning
Stressor
Unconditioned Stimulus
Classical Conditioning
difference threshold
36. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma
Motive
Abnormal Behavior
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Demand characteristics
37. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
Experimental design
William Dement
frontal lobes
optic nerve
38. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
sympathetic nervous system
iris
descriptive statistics
polygenic inheritance
39. Retrieval cues that match original information work better
encoding specificity principle
Counterconditioning
nurture
Mediation
40. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
Group therapy
Imaginary Audience
eclectic
synaptic vesicles
41. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
Masters & Johnson
Collective Unconscious
synapse
motor projection areas
42. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons
efferent neuron nerve
(cerebral) cortex
proactive interference
moral development
43. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
psychoanalyst
Higher-order Conditioning
normal distribution
convolutions
44. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
Hans Eysenck
Teratogen
Benjamin Whorf
Preconscious
45. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Percentile score
Panic Attack
polarization
Bystander Effect
46. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
Groupthink
Latency Stage
Self-perception Theory
Latent Content
47. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
mode
Prevalence
Edward Thorndike
Gender
48. Carries impulses from the eye to the brain
Erik Erikson
Attitudes
statistics
optic nerve
49. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
Resistance
theory
Personality disorders
Subliminal perception
50. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
Morpheme
Orgasm phase
hindbrain
long-term memory
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