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1. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
genetics
Standardization
independent variable
Gender Identity
2. 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
Trichromatic theory
Residual type of schizophrenia
Carl Rogers
3. Reflex that causes a newborn to turn the head toward a light touch on lips or cheek
Rooting reflex
Lewis Terman
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Sociobiology
4. Ends of axons that secrete neurotransmitters
authoritarian parenting
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
Personality disorders
Stimulus Discrimination
5. Emotional intelligence
motor projection areas
forebrain
Daniel Goleman
Deviation IQ
6. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.
Reactance
pitch
serotonin
Resolution Phase
7. Sets of strategies - rather than strict rules - that act as guidelines for discovery-oriented problem solving.
Darley & Latane
Prevalence
Reliability
Heuristics
8. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
fraternal twins
agonist
Paul Ekman
9. The cessation of the ability to reproduce
Standard score
menopause
authoritarian parenting
Hermann Ebbinghaus
10. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters
axon terminal
Resilience
Dream analysis
Sensation
11. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
Mainstreaming
Blood-Brain Barrier
Phineas Gage
short-term storage
12. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
Social Psychology
Harry Harlow
Working through
Reaction Formation
13. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
Resilience
schema
temporal lobes
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
14. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses
Robert Zajonc
Elizabeth Loftus
photoreceptors
Sex
15. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; criticized Freud - stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses - rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts - neurotic trends; concept of 'basic anxiety'
Dissociative disorders
Karen Horney
Dark adaptation
Rape
16. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically
adrenal glands
lens
Social Loafing
Preoperational stage
17. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
long-term memory
polygenic inheritance
Psychophysics
standard deviation
18. The highness or lowness of a sound
Dream analysis
pitch
just noticeable difference (JND)
sound localization
19. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
decay
theory
Psycholinguistics
sympathetic nervous system
20. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary
memory span
Biofeedback
school psychologist
David Weschler
21. First menstrual period
menarche
gate control theory
David McClelland
Ernst Weber
22. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
Raymond Cattell
bulimia nervosa
Dream
Resilience
23. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
Social Loafing
Humanistic theory
shaping
Oedipus Complex
24. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.
Transference
Syntax
Assessment
chunks
25. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place
Debriefing
working memory
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Conflict
26. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior
Theory of mind
Positive Reinforcement
Rosenhan
difference threshold
27. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
Trait
Linguistics
Visual cortex
Negative Reinforcement
28. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems
placebo effect
Heuristics
Absolute threshold
psychoanalyst
29. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion
achievement test
glial cells
unconscious
Ekman & Friesen
30. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
ex post facto study
authoritarian parenting
cognitive psychology
structuralism
31. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
gene
preconscious
Group
Brainstorming
32. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
Stanley Schachter
Charles Spearman
corpus callosum
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
33. Behaviorism/learning; pioneer in systematic desensitization - maintained that fear could be unlearned
dendrites
self-fulfilling prophecy
Deviation IQ
Mary Cover-Jones
34. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Archetypes
range
Debriefing
photoreceptors
35. Neurotransmitter that inhibits firing of neurons; linked with Huntington's disease
Deviation IQ
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Nonverbal Communication
Morality
36. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Homeostasis
endorphins
Albert Ellis
37. An individual's genetic make-up
Insomnia
genotype
psychologist
Rational-emotive therapy
38. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
Time-out
Impression Formation
Type B behavior
gonads
39. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
preconventional level of moral development
case study
Darley & Latane
cerebellum
40. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
Color Blindness
social psychologist
Excitement phase
Standardization
41. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
Alfred Adler
Psycholinguistics
preconventional level of moral development
Self-efficacy
42. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Sucking reflex
Abraham Maslow
parallel processing
thyroid gland
43. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
Group Polarization
Zajonc & Markus
acetylcholine (ACh)
Sociobiology
44. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.
neural impulse
Semantics
empiricism
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
45. 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
David Weschler
Rosenhan
Placenta
Group Polarization
46. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
selection studies
authoritative parenting
Intelligence
independent variable
47. Biologist; developed theory of evolution; transmutation of species - natural selection - evolution by common descent; 'The Origin of Species' catalogs his voyage on The Beagle
Charles Darwin
polygenic inheritance
Free association
motor projection areas
48. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
Deviation IQ
Tolman
Functional fixedness
Clark Hull
49. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
achievement test
William Sheldon
dualism
Sensation
50. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
Thanatology
forebrain
Free association
dopamine
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