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CLEP Intro To Psychology
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1. Goals framed in terms of increasing ones competence and skills
humanistic
mastery goals
CAT scan
Lev Vygotsky
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
fixed ratio
epinephrine
parietal lobe
psychoanalysis
3. The adjustment of one's schemas to include newly observed events and experiences
accomodation
somatic nervous system
dependent variable
information processing theory
4. Portion behind to the frontal lobe - responsible for sensations such as pain - temperature - and touch
functionalism
Parietal lobe
frontal lobe
Erik Erikson's
5. Stroke bottom of the foot up and across by the toes and the toes fan out
babinksi reflex
information processing theory
altruism
Humanism
6. Reciprocal action - effect - or influence.
independent variable
ACTH
interaction
correlation
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
sympathetic nervous system
corticosteriods
behavior
clinical psychologist
8. A psychologist who uses psychological concepts to make the workplace a more satisfying environment for employees and managers
external validity
industrial-organizational psychologist
sympathetic nervous system
primary reinforcer
9. A therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders
clinical psychologist
neuroscientist
Hermann Ebbinghaus
forgetting curve
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
Lev Vygotsky
Humanism
internal validity
independent variable
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.
reinforcer
case study
Sternberg's triangular view
Psychoneuroimmunology or PNI
13. Mental categories that help our brains group objects that have common properties.
Stockholm syndrome
concept
functional MRI
Abraham Maslow
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
social psychologist
Wilhelm Wundt
synaptic cleft
sociology
16. Portion posterior to the frontal lobe - responsible for sensations such as pain - temperature - and touch
cortisol
functional MRI
Abraham Maslow
parietal lobe
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.
catecholamines
Erik Erikson's
internal validity
significant psychological research
19. Natural - opiatelike neurotransmitters linked to pain control and to pleasure
neuroscientist
cross-sectional study
Ivan Pavlov
endorphins
20. The division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles. Also called the skeletal nervous system
somatic nervous system
epinephrine
Stages of Moral Development
semantic memory
21. A negative condition is introduced to reduce a behavior.
forgetting curve
negative punishment
anonymity
Erik Erikson's
22. (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
cortisol
endorphins
reinforcer
ACTH
23. Of or pertaining to the mental processes of perception - memory - judgment - and reasoning - as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes
argument by evidence
forgetting curve
cognitive
displacement
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
Gordon Allport
Lawrence Kohlberg
etiology
Abraham Maslow
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
carl jung
performance goals
semantic memory
retina
26. Considered the Father of modern psychology; study of mental processes - introspection - and self-exam; established the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig - Germany
Wilhelm Wundt
cortisol
B.F. Skinner
Hermann von Helmholtz
27. The cause of a disease
Hermann von Helmholtz
anthropology
Erik Erikson's
etiology
28. Observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state - mental processes - etc.; the act of looking within oneself.
Erik Erikson's
introspection
Three phases of memory process
retina
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.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Gordon Allport
Erik Erikson's
ACTH
30. Any reinforcer that becomes reinforcing after being paired with a primary reinforcer - such as praise - tokens - or gold stars
cross-sectional study
fixed ratio
external validity
secondary reinforcer
31. A methodical - logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
Albert Bandura
algorithm
somatization
Humanism
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
clinical psychologist
Humanism
humanistic
carl jung
33. The science that deals with the origins - physical and cultural development - biological characteristics - and social customs and beliefs of humankind.
anthropology
Erik Erikson's
participant observation
parasympathetic nervous system
34. Present evidence to support your claims
argument by evidence
Sternberg's triangular view
psychodynamic
information processing theory
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
sensory adaptation
frontal lobe
William James
Erik Erikson's
36. The process through which the body absorbs social stress and manifests symptoms of suffering; also called embodiment
dependent variable
cross-sectional study
somatization
performance goals
37. Helps the body process new information by adapting to old stimuli and making space for new ones
variable ratio
sensory adaptation
primary reinforcer
shizophrenia
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
experimental research
Meyer Friedman
corticosteriods
Erik Erikson's
39. A psychologist who studies sensation - perception - learning - motivation - and emotion in carefully controlled laboratory conditions
negative punishment
experimental psychologist
social psychologist
independent variable
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
significant psychological research
Meyer Friedman
negative punishment
George Kelly
41. State whereby a victim forms an emotional attachment to their captors.
neurotransmitter
clinical psychologist
Humanism
Stockholm syndrome
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 (
placebo effect
differentiation
Three phases of memory process
Sigmund Freud
43. The aggregate (sum or assemblage of many separate units; sum total) of responses to internal and external stimuli.
naturalistic observation
somatic nervous system
behavior
John Locke
44. Portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the back of the head; visual areas
concept
neurotransmitter
ACTH
occipital lobe
45. ENCODE - STORE - RETRIEVE
Three phases of memory process
dependent variable
Hermann Ebbinghaus
accomodation
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.
Lev Vygotsky
Albert Bandura
significant psychological research
sympathetic nervous system
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
synaptic cleft
biology
Erik Erikson's
opponent-process theory
48. The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable
ACTH
dependent variable
William James
neurotransmitter
49. Physiological needs drive an organism to act in either random or habitual ways
experimental research
central nervous system
drive reduction
proactive interference
50. Goals framed in terms of performing well in front of others - being judged favorably - and avoiding criticism
social psychologist
performance goals
Sigmund Freud
primary reinforcer