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1. 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
Phobic disorders
Preoperational stage
Optic chiasm
health psychologist
2. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
emotional intelligence
motive
sample
amnesia
3. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
Deindividuation
hypothalamus
replication
percentile score
4. The time in to development of an organism when it is especially sensitive to certain environmental influences; outside of that period the same influences will have far less effect
motor neurons
Lawrence Kohlberg
Operant Conditioning
Critical Period
5. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
Groupthink
adrenal glands
Sublimation
mutation
6. Constructed by Lewis Terman - originally used ratio IQ (MA/CA x 100); now based on deviation from mean
Personality
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Carl Rogers
sports psychologist
7. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
genetic mapping
Reliability
endorphins
Survey
8. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
psychoanalyst
Backward search
Gestalt psychology
Projection
9. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.
Transduction
bulimia nervosa
Henry Murray
nature-nurture controversy
10. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned
Conditioning
Ideal Self
Phineas Gage
midbrain
11. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
Model
Concrete operational stage
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
positive psychology
12. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.
Interpersonal Attraction
Psychoanalysis
Social Influence
Oedipus Complex
13. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
Social Loafing
Vasocongestion
amygdala
Actor-observer Effect
14. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
Dementia
Free association
Arousal
Wilhelm Wundt
15. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically
neural plasticity
hormone
Equity Theory
Observational Learning Theory
16. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
Dream
Dissociative identity disorder
Psycholinguistics
Anxiety
17. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.
Displacement
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Resistance
recessive gene
18. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.
industrial/organizational psychologist
Burnout
Panic Attack
Variable-ratio Schedule
19. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life
Imaginary Audience
Homeostasis
industrial/organizational psychologist
Resilience
20. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
Masters & Johnson
ethics
Elizabeth Loftus
sound localization
21. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction
ethnocentrism
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Solomon Asch
John B Watson
22. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
schema
Drug
Socrates
statistics
23. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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24. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
Hobson & McCarley
Receptive fields
Positive Reinforcement
habituation
25. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
frequency distribution
Convergent thinking
difference threshold
Reactance
26. 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'
human genomes
Karen Horney
retina
Nonverbal Communication
27. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands
Arousal
bottom-up processing
Social Cognition
Imaginary Audience
28. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions
Conformity
top-down processing
memory span
Masters & Johnson
29. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
Unconditioned Stimulus
flashbulb memories
gate control theory
Oral Stage
30. First menstrual period
menarche
sensory memory
Intimacy
nature-nurture controversy
31. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
Von Restorff effect
polygenic inheritance
Martin Seligman
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
32. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality
synapse
Aristotle
forebrain
Extinction (operant conditioning)
33. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses
Free association
David Weschler
explicit memory
Conflict
34. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles
Phillip Zimbardo
eclectic
Working through
semantic memory
35. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
Sociobiology
ex post facto study
Stereotypes
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
36. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill
normal distribution
Dependence
zone of proximal development
Secondary Sex Characteristics
37. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
Temperament
Health psychology
Insight therapy
Self-perception Theory
38. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
Morality
Client-centered therapy
Gender Schema Theory
decay
39. Fixed - overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.
pseudoscience
Brightness
health psychologist
Stereotypes
40. Period of development from conception until birth
adrenal glands
anorexia nervosa
Teratogen
prenatal development
41. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
Color Blindness
frequency
random sample
Solomon Asch
42. Small area of retina where image is focused
natural selection
Abnormal psychology
fovea
Receptive fields
43. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
maintenance rehearsal
Thanatology
Latent Learning
Masters & Johnson
44. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
Psychoactive Drug
memory
zone of proximal development
chunks
45. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.
monism
Social Psychology
Working through
Hobson & McCarley
46. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes
Light
scientific method
Benjamin Whorf
Major depressive disorder
47. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
polarization
frequency polygon
Brainstorming
Signal Detection Theory
48. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse
Fetus
Emotion
Receptive fields
neurotransmitters
49. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
Projection
Benjamin Whorf
Assimilation
binocular cues
50. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching
Lawrence Kohlberg
Rosenhan
Imaginary Audience
Carol Gilligan
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