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1. 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 -






2. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age






3. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.






4. Retrieval cues that match original information work better






5. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes






6. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.






7. A trait or inherited characteristic that has increased in a population because it solved a problem of survival or reproduction






8. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream






9. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never






10. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter






11. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility






12. 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






13. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself






14. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.






15. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.






16. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment






17. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.






18. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives






19. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.






20. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships






21. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.






22. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer






23. Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people - ideas - or objects that are based on a person's past experiences - shape his or her future behavior - and are evaluative in nature.






24. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus






25. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.






26. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior






27. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross






28. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve






29. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.






30. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life






31. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.






32. 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






33. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.






34. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions






35. The spread between the highest and the lowest scores in a distribution






36. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.






37. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching






38. Reflex that causes a newborn to turn the head toward a light touch on lips or cheek






39. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality






40. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon






41. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score






42. The process by which the probability of an organism's emitting a response is reduced when reinforcement no longer follows the response






43. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held






44. Theory that holds that an observer's perception depends not only on the intensity of a stimulus but also on the observer's motivation - the criteria he or she sets for determining that a signal is present - and on the background noise.






45. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.






46. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.






47. In Adler's theory - a feeling of openness with all humanity.






48. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources






49. Conditioning in which an increase or decrease in the probability that a behavior will recur is affected by the delivery of reinforcement or punishment as a consequence of the behavior;






50. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.







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