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CLEP Intro To Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Goals framed in terms of increasing ones competence and skills






2. Adrenaline; activates a sympathetic nervous system by making the heart beat faster - stopping digestion - enlarging pupils - sending sugar into the bloodstream - preparing a blood clot faster






3. The adjustment of one's schemas to include newly observed events and experiences






4. Portion behind to the frontal lobe - responsible for sensations such as pain - temperature - and touch






5. Stroke bottom of the foot up and across by the toes and the toes fan out






6. Reciprocal action - effect - or influence.






7. Act on the immune system to suppress the body's response to infection or trauma. Relieve inflammation - reduce swelling - and suppress symptoms in acute conditions






8. A psychologist who uses psychological concepts to make the workplace a more satisfying environment for employees and managers






9. A therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders






10. 1896-1934; russian developmental psychologist who emphasized the role of the social environment on cognitive development and proposed the idea of zones of proximal development. GUIDED PARTICIPATION - Children's interaction with knowledgeable adults o






11. Stages of development - Stage 2 Will - Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt - Toddler stage / 1-3 years. Child needs to learn to explore the world. Bad if the parent is too smothering or completely neglectful.

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12. A study of an individual unit - as a person - family - or social group - usually emphasizing developmental issues and relationships with the environment - especially in order to compare a larger group to the individual unit.






13. Mental categories that help our brains group objects that have common properties.






14. Stages of development - Stage 7 Caring - Generativity vs. Stagnation - early forties till mid sixties / starts as the Mid-life crisis. Measure accomplishments/failures. Am I satisfied or not? The need to assist the younger generation. Stagnation is

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15. A microscopic gap between the terminal button of one neuron and the cell membrane of another neuron






16. Portion posterior to the frontal lobe - responsible for sensations such as pain - temperature - and touch






17. Stages of development - Stage 8 Wisdom - Ego Integrity vs. Despair - old age / from mid sixties. Some handle death well. Some can be bitter - unhappy - and/or dissatisfied with what they have accomplished or failed to accomplish within their lifetim

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18. Inferences are said to possess internal validity if a causal relation between two variables is properly demonstrated.






19. Natural - opiatelike neurotransmitters linked to pain control and to pleasure






20. The division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles. Also called the skeletal nervous system






21. A negative condition is introduced to reduce a behavior.






22. (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it






23. Of or pertaining to the mental processes of perception - memory - judgment - and reasoning - as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes






24. Created the Stages of Moral Development - relied for his studies on stories such as the Heinz dilemma - and was interested in how individuals would justify their actions if placed in similar moral dilemmas






25. The light-sensitive inner surface of the eye - containing the receptor rods and cones plus layers of neurons that begin the processing of visual information






26. Considered the Father of modern psychology; study of mental processes - introspection - and self-exam; established the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig - Germany






27. The cause of a disease






28. Observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state - mental processes - etc.; the act of looking within oneself.






29. One of the earliest psychologists in America who undertook a rigorous and structures approach to studying personality. He identified the idiographic and nomothetic views to personality.






30. Any reinforcer that becomes reinforcing after being paired with a primary reinforcer - such as praise - tokens - or gold stars






31. A methodical - logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem






32. 1875-1961; Field: neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; Contributions: people had conscious and unconscious awareness; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; Studies: dream studies/interpretation






33. The science that deals with the origins - physical and cultural development - biological characteristics - and social customs and beliefs of humankind.






34. Present evidence to support your claims






35. Part of the cerebral cortex; coordinates messages from other cerebral lobes; involved in complex problem-solving tasks - thinking - self-control - judgment - emotion regulation - personality affects - concentration - goal directed behavior; restructu






36. The process through which the body absorbs social stress and manifests symptoms of suffering; also called embodiment






37. Helps the body process new information by adapting to old stimuli and making space for new ones






38. It is a collection of research designs which use manipulation and controlled testing to understand causal processes. Generally - one or more variables are manipulated to determine their effect on a dependent variable






39. A psychologist who studies sensation - perception - learning - motivation - and emotion in carefully controlled laboratory conditions






40. Personal Construct Psychology. investigative technique - which would remove the influence of the observer's frame of reference on what was observed. he believed (personal construct theory) our personality consists of our thoughts about ourselves - in






41. State whereby a victim forms an emotional attachment to their captors.






42. Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939); Said that human behavior is irrational; behavior is the outcome of conflict between the id (irrational unconscious driven by sexual - aggressive - and pleasure-seeking desires) and ego (






43. The aggregate (sum or assemblage of many separate units; sum total) of responses to internal and external stimuli.






44. Portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the back of the head; visual areas






45. ENCODE - STORE - RETRIEVE






46. Findings that provide a multilayered - comprehensive understanding of human behavior. Ex. study of stress and human response has to be done from a biological - social and cognitive perspective.






47. Simultaneous color contrast: an effect that occurs when surrounding an area with a color changes the appearence of the surrounded area. - the theory that opposing retinal processes (red-green - yellow-blue - white-black) enable color vision. For exam






48. The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable






49. Physiological needs drive an organism to act in either random or habitual ways






50. Goals framed in terms of performing well in front of others - being judged favorably - and avoiding criticism