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1. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.
Transference
graded potential
Psychophysics
dualism
2. Perspective developed by freud - which assumes that psychological problems are the result of anxiety resulting from unresolved conflicts and forces of which a person might be unaware
psychoanalytic
temporal lobes
Walter B. Cannon
John Locke
3. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
lens
Archetypes
informed consent
Tolerance
4. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Cognitive theories
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Variable-ratio Schedule
5. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.
dopamine
Sublimation
selective attention
Approach-approach conflict
6. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions
identical twins
Experimental design
Dementia
triarchic theory of intelligence
7. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches
gonads
Libido
motor projection areas
eclectic
8. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
Attributions
Daniel Goleman
Systematic desensitization
percentile score
9. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it
Reinforcer
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Robert Sternberg
all-or-none principle
10. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
Thanatology
Vasocongestion
Concept
Regression
11. 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
Aaron Beck
Social Facilitation
Homeostasis
normal distribution
12. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
fraternal twins
preconscious
graded potential
Gazzaniga or Sperry
13. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
agonist
Androgynous
nonconscious
excitatory neurotransmitter
14. Observed group differences based on the era when people were born and grew up - exposing them to particular experiences that may affect the results of cross-sectional studies
cohort effect
Self-efficacy
Creativity
Howard Gardner
15. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat
John B Watson
cohort effect
Arousal
Client-centered therapy
16. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Need for achievement
Percentile score
Coping
Fixed-ratio Schedule
17. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Homeostasis
adrenal glands
Drive
18. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.
Problem Solving
William James
Ideal Self
Reactance
19. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary
Linguistics
Gender
resting potential
school psychologist
20. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
Ekman & Friesen
brain
Charles Spearman
Egocentrism
21. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
Id
Drug
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
levels-of-processing approach
22. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
state-dependent learning
epinephrine
Benjamin Whorf
debriefing
23. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes
Norms
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
hypothalamus
genetic mapping
24. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
lens
neural impulse
clinical psychologist
Leon Festinger
25. Areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions - rather - they are involved in higher mental processes such as thinking - planning - and communicating
Deindividuation
epinephrine
David Rosenhan
association areas
26. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.
Receptive fields
Bipolar disorder
Agoraphobia
Id
27. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness
Egocentrism
sociocultural psychology
maintenance rehearsal
significant difference
28. 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
rods
Sensorimotor stage
Defense Mechanism
fovea
29. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities
Lucid Dream
Variable-interval Schedule
functional MRI (fMRI)
Emotion
30. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
explicit memory
behavior
theory
31. 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
significant difference
genotype
peripheral nervous system
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
32. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment
Fundamental Attribution Error
visual acuity
William James
achievement test
33. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
motivated forgetting
Paul Ekman
Herman von Helmholtz
identical twins
34. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher
Concept
Secondary Punisher
Residual type of schizophrenia
Alzheimer's Disease
35. The tendency of people in a group to seek concurrence with one another when reaching a decision - rather than effectively evaluating options.
Color Blindness
phenotype
Groupthink
Signal Detection Theory
36. Sharpness of vision
hindbrain
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
visual acuity
37. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Saccades
Working through
working memory
38. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
normal distribution
Attachment
consolidation
Stressor
39. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
semantic memory
cochlea
Blood-Brain Barrier
anorexia nervosa
40. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
Collective Unconscious
schema
retroactive interference
procedural memory
41. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
self-actualization
Reaction Formation
survey research
dopamine
42. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
population
conventional level of moral development
postconventional level of moral development
maintenance rehearsal
43. 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
Zygote
significant difference
David Weschler
Depressive disorders
44. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.
Type A behavior
Dementia
Vulnerability
Elaboration Likelihood Model
45. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
Rooting reflex
Resolution Phase
Social Psychology
Alfred Adler
46. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine
Moro reflex
thyroid gland
Interpretation
genotype
47. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups
Oral Stage
Stimulant
Burnout
Concordance rate
48. A group of psychological disorders characterized by a lack of reality testing and by deterioration of social and intellectual functioning and personality beginning before age 45 and lasting at least 6 months
Lev Vygotsky
levels-of-processing approach
Group
Schizophrenic disorders
49. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body
evolutionary psychology
kinesthesis
Demand characteristics
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
50. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
Gender stereotype
nature-nurture controversy
Motivation
Spontaneous Recovery
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