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1. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
menopause
Approach-avoidance conflict
Carl Rogers
Ideal Self
2. 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
Critical Period
Heritability
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Experimental design
3. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses
Linguistics
Hermann Rorschach
photoreceptors
Aristotle
4. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
Overjustification effect
Creativity
fluid intelligence
random sample
5. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches
Trichromatic theory
Teratogen
eclectic
Mary Cover-Jones
6. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
sensory memory
Accommodation
Need
Overjustification effect
7. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.
Dark adaptation
Backward search
Cross-sectional study
family studies
8. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Conservation
Approach-approach conflict
hindbrain
9. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
achievement test
Stereotypes
demand characteristics
David McClelland
10. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe
Edward Thorndike
midbrain
thyroid gland
recessive gene
11. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
brain
Punishment
Rosenthal & Jacobson
ex post facto study
12. In Adler's theory - a feeling of openness with all humanity.
Punishment
Wechsler intelligence tests
Mainstreaming
Social Interest
13. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected
independent variable
Edward Bradford Titchener
gustation
Experimental design
14. Humanistic psychology; Contributions: founded client-centered therapy - theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth - unconditional positive regard -
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Albert Bandura
Carl Rogers
Standard score
15. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
Self-efficacy
educational psychologist
Sex
Health psychology
16. Reflex that causes a newborn to turn the head toward a light touch on lips or cheek
Rooting reflex
Debriefing
psychologist
Albert Bandura
17. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.
Altruism
Fixed-ratio Schedule
mutation
maintenance rehearsal
18. 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.
Embryo
naturalistic observation
Stereotypes
Accommodation
19. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence
normal distribution
Reasoning
Edward Thorndike
Approach-avoidance conflict
20. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.
introspection
Abnormal Behavior
Positive Reinforcement
Ego
21. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
Secondary Reinforcer
olfaction
Gestalt psychology
motor neurons
22. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Abraham Maslow
Learning
serotonin
23. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings
Gibson & Walk
retina
amygdala
Robert Zajonc
24. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
aphasia
DNA
Bulimia Nervosa
Concept
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
Albert Bandura
association areas
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Ernst Weber
26. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life
Ageism
Latency Stage
industrial/organizational psychologist
Language
27. A process through which people receive information about the status of a physical system and use this feedback information to learn to control the activity of that system
sound localization
Biofeedback
neural impulse
Anorexia Nervosa
28. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
Color Blindness
Impression Formation
Conditioned Stimulus
refractory period
29. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
thyroid gland
monocular cues
working memory
hindbrain
30. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings
psychologist
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Puberty
unconscious
31. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions
vestibular sense
eclectic
Convergent thinking
triarchic theory of intelligence
32. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites
Client-centered therapy
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
thyroid gland
synapse
33. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.
Harry Harlow
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Social Psychology
dependent variable
34. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research
Lev Vygotsky
Thanatology
frequency
Hue
35. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.
Systematic desensitization
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Dissociative disorders
sensory memory
36. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
Robert Zajonc
timbre
schema
Antisocial personality disorder
37. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
myelin sheath
inferential statistics
neuropsychologist
Albert Bandura
38. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.
Language
Learned helplessness
Stimulus Generalization
Rational-emotive therapy
39. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
mode
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
motive
Placenta
40. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
social psychologist
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
relative refractory period
Preoperational stage
41. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
implicit memory
Skinner Box
Clark Hull
Walter B. Cannon
42. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
David Weschler
afferent neuron nerve
retrograde amnesia
Konrad Lorenz
43. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
Self
Unconditioned Stimulus
structuralism
selective attention
44. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
schema
fluid intelligence
polarization
sensory adaptation
45. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
Delusions
Gender Schema Theory
storage
Developmental Psychology
46. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons
Monochromats
B.F. Skinner
Abnormal psychology
cones
47. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi
Solomon Asch
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
state-dependent learning
48. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.
Judith Langlois
Grasping reflex
Mediation
Sublimation
49. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
Herman von Helmholtz
Reliability
control group
Sensorimotor stage
50. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
forebrain
Dissociative disorders
Demand characteristics
Receptive fields
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