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1. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
Tolerance
Factor analysis
Reactance
schema
2. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
David Weschler
Unconditioned Response
motor neurons
Little Albert
3. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
brain
Alzheimer's Disease
maintenance rehearsal
Tolman
4. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes
observer bias
Latent Content
experimenter bias
Lucid Dream
5. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
Emotion
pitch
dominant genes
control group
6. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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7. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.
cognitive psychology
Body Language
ESP
action potential
8. Inability to understand or use language
aphasia
replication
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Sensorimotor stage
9. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
Validity
experimenter bias
Drive
Broca's area
10. 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
pons
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Raw score
cohort effect
11. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
ex post facto study
Judith Langlois
Subliminal perception
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
12. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
Divergent thinking
functional MRI (fMRI)
motivated forgetting
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
13. Sense of taste
Metal retardation
Social Categorization
Withdrawal Symptoms
gustation
14. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
twin studies
blind spot
Placebo effect
Bonding
15. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)
Albert Ellis
Wechsler intelligence tests
encoding
Prototype
16. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
retrograde amnesia
Cognitive theories
hypothesis
17. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
semantic memory
Family therapy
Receptive fields
Archetypes
18. Response to the belief that the IV will have an effect - rather than the IV's actual effect - which can be a confounding variable
Fixed-ratio Schedule
menopause
confounding variable
placebo effect
19. In Adler's theory - a feeling of openness with all humanity.
Survey
Convergent thinking
Social Interest
Representative sample
20. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically
Functional fixedness
Preoperational stage
resting potential
Motive
21. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
polygenic inheritance
hindbrain
spinal cord
occipital lobes
22. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
Excitement phase
Wilhelm Wundt
Herman von Helmholtz
working memory
23. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.
Law of Effect
natural selection
Negative Reinforcement
Interpretation
24. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
survey research
semantic memory
Backward search
Placebo effect
25. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
chunks
Vulnerability
educational psychologist
pituitary gland
26. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
Schizophrenic disorders
self-fulfilling prophecy
correlational research
Divergent thinking
27. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
Signal Detection Theory
Id
Extinction (operant conditioning)
spinal cord
28. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information
hormone
thyroid gland
memory
autonomic nervous system
29. The principle that those characteristics and behaviors that help organisms adapt - be fit - and survive will be passed on to successive generations - because flexible - fit individuals have a greater chance of reproduction
Androgynous
Behavior therapy
Lawrence Kohlberg
natural selection
30. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
Actor-observer Effect
timbre
B.F. Skinner
Benjamin Whorf
31. Following a strong emotion - an opposing emotion counters the first emotion - lessening the experience of that emotion; on repeated occasions - the opposing emotion becomes stronger
opponent-process theory of emotion
olfaction
Anxiety
EEG (electroencephalogram)
32. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants
Wechsler intelligence tests
bottom-up processing
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Groupthink
33. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
Herman von Helmholtz
operational definition
brain
Personality
34. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher
Secondary Punisher
behavior
Jean Piaget
Factor analysis
35. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
Benjamin Whorf
Temperament
Latent Learning
Extinction (classical conditioning)
36. 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
sensory adaptation
John B Watson
Deviation IQ
Model
37. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
ions
Francis Galton
Convergent thinking
debriefing
38. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
John Locke
Sucking reflex
anterograde amnesia
thyroid gland
39. A descriptive research method in which researchers study behavior in its natural context.
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Developmental Psychology
Naturalistic observation
Major depressive disorder
40. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking
cognitive psychology
motor projection areas
hypothesis
Reinforcer
41. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
Schizophrenic disorders
Raymond Cattell
Little Albert
Semantics
42. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses
Trichromatic theory
Rooting reflex
levels-of-processing approach
Conflict
43. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal
Norms
genetic mapping
Concept
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
44. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
Stimulant
Orgasm phase
Norms
psychiatrist
45. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
Longitudinal Study
independent variable
aptitude test
median
46. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned
Concrete operational stage
Residual type of schizophrenia
Dementia
Conditioning
47. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
Naturalistic observation
Gestalt psychology
levels-of-processing approach
explicit memory
48. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches
graded potential
eclectic
significant difference
Schizophrenic disorders
49. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
Accommodation
dualism
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
placebo
50. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned
Raymond Cattell
Primary Reinforcer
Psycholinguistics
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
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