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1. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
Darley & Latane
Dark adaptation
hindbrain
brainstem
2. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
Placebo effect
Assessment
Working through
Phineas Gage
3. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
excitatory neurotransmitter
Assimilation
Dependence
implicit memory
4. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve
Normal curve
Learned helplessness
Charles Darwin
Family therapy
5. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
retrograde amnesia
Working through
Need for achievement
6. 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.
Aversive counterconditioning
Psychoanalysis
Standardization
Gender Identity
7. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time
episodic memory
Stimulus Generalization
Conflict
experimenter bias
8. An environmental stimulus that affects an organism in physically or psychologically injurious ways - usually producing anxiety - tension - and physiological arousal
frequency distribution
Dark adaptation
Stress
Stressor
9. 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.
association areas
Descriptive Studies
retrieval
Major depressive disorder
10. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
Functional fixedness
significant difference
psychoanalytic
Little Albert
11. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment
Personality
Backward search
long-term potentiation
Learning
12. Does research on how people function best with machines
engineering psychologist
preconscious
frequency distribution
Dementia
13. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.
Reasoning
Free association
token economy
William James
14. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
elaborative rehearsal
Transduction
Self
David McClelland
15. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
Gordon Allport
interneurons
Representative sample
myelin sheath
16. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
consolidation
interneurons
Stressor
audition
17. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable
endorphins
limbic system
confounding variable
Henry Murray
18. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Tolman
Wolpe
Psychosurgery
19. 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
Rosenhan
Working through
random sample
Brainstorming
20. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
sympathetic nervous system
emotional intelligence
forensic psychologist
21. Pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning) - stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls - children mimicked play
inferential statistics
Insight therapy
Albert Bandura
Saccades
22. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
transfer appropriate processing
Abnormal psychology
myelin sheath
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
23. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
transfer appropriate processing
Excitement phase
percentile score
Phallic Stage
24. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series
recency effect
Wilhelm Wundt
neurotransmitters
Sex
25. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
Naturalistic observation
Reaction Formation
motor projection areas
dendrites
26. 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
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Anxiety
Aaron Beck
Stanley Schachter
27. An individual's genetic make-up
Residual type of schizophrenia
Skinner Box
genotype
Tolerance
28. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
Wechsler intelligence tests
Experimental design
Variable-ratio Schedule
Blood-Brain Barrier
29. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher
Fixation
significant difference
Placebo effect
Preconscious
30. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
Drive
Social phobia
Robert Yerkes
Thanatology
31. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
Saccades
Placebo effect
inferential statistics
Expectancy Theories
32. Top of the spinal column
zone of proximal development
Ivan Pavlov
brainstem
Francis Galton
33. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
social psychologist
Carl Jung
primacy effect
Aristotle
34. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.
survey research
Positive Reinforcement
Placebo effect
Ideal Self
35. The expression of genes
Howard Gardner
Intrinsic motivation
phenotype
binocular cues
36. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech
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37. Released by adrenal glands; triggered by norepinephrine to prolong the response to stress (used in the sympathetic nervous system)
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Functional fixedness
bottom-up processing
38. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
William Dement
hypnosis
Grammar
Oedipus Complex
39. Released by thyroid; hormone that regulates the body's metabolism; OVERACTIVE-over-excitability - insomnia - reduced attention span - fatigue - snap decisions - reduced concentration (hyperthyroidism); UNDERACTIVE-desire to sleep - constantly tired -
short-term storage
hormone
thyroxine
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
40. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
Longitudinal Study
gate control theory
episodic memory
Residual type of schizophrenia
41. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes
experimenter bias
genetic mapping
Conditioned Response
Drive
42. 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
Elaboration Likelihood Model
lens
opponent-process theory of emotion
representative sample
43. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes
retrieval
Judith Langlois
Latent Content
Humanistic theory
44. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
explicit memory
human genomes
population
Teratogen
45. 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
Aversive counterconditioning
Unconditioned Stimulus
Stimulant
46. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
John B Watson
adrenal glands
Collective Unconscious
aphasia
47. A branch of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body functions; it calms the body after sympathetic stimulation
parasympathetic nervous system
long-term potentiation
psychoanalytic
Phineas Gage
48. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
Burnout
Discrimination
double-blind procedure
range
49. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes
placebo
Robert Zajonc
Cognitive theories
endocrine system
50. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives
Mainstreaming
storage
Brightness
Approach-approach conflict
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