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1. 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
Observational Learning Theory
Concordance rate
Group therapy
Critical Period
2. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
sports psychologist
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Semantics
interference
3. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Zajonc & Markus
motor projection areas
Resilience
Percentile score
4. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.
Symptom substitution
corpus callosum
Aggression
Sociobiology
5. Sense of smell
Hyperopic
Attributions
olfaction
Psycholinguistics
6. The brain and spinal cord
central nervous system
nature-nurture controversy
Phineas Gage
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
7. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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8. 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
Karen Horney
Motivation
John B Watson
Abnormal Behavior
9. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.
difference threshold
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Social Cognition
Subgoal analysis
10. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
bulimia nervosa
Raymond Cattell
Dissociative identity disorder
Trait
11. The expression of genes
Wechsler intelligence tests
Variable-ratio Schedule
Classical Conditioning
phenotype
12. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
monism
Jean Piaget
conventional level of moral development
Unconscious
13. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire
Social Loafing
excitatory neurotransmitter
Intrinsic motivation
Raw score
14. Process by which a neutral stimulus takes on conditioned properties through pairing with a conditioned stimulus
Phineas Gage
Classical Conditioning
Higher-order Conditioning
René Descartes
15. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
Experimental design
neuron
Withdrawal Symptoms
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
16. In an experiment - the group of participants to whom a treatment is given
Walter B. Cannon
Defense Mechanism
experimental group
Agoraphobia
17. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
selective attention
naturalistic observation
Rosenthal & Jacobson
agonist
18. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
opponent-process theory of emotion
encoding specificity principle
Orgasm phase
hypothalamus
19. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones
hypothesis
Time-out
retina
Jean Piaget
20. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.
Placebo effect
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Ex Post Facto Design
Groupthink
21. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
Descriptive Studies
Psychoactive Drug
Fundamental Attribution Error
Saccades
22. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
Ageism
aptitude test
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Trichromatic theory
23. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion
John B Watson
case study
Dependence
Ekman & Friesen
24. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
B.F. Skinner
Kenneth Clark
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Deviation IQ
25. Cognition and memory; studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony
Grasping reflex
Elizabeth Loftus
temporal lobes
experiment
26. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Rooting reflex
Mediation
Fixation
Lucid Dream
27. Behaviorism/learning; pioneer in systematic desensitization - maintained that fear could be unlearned
standard deviation
Darley & Latane
Cognitive Psychology
Mary Cover-Jones
28. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.
twin studies
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
descriptive statistics
Displacement
29. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.
Robert Yerkes
motor neurons
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Psychoanalysis
30. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.
Raw score
Prevalence
receptor site
Daniel Goleman
31. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
frequency distribution
decay
Group
gustation
32. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.
interneurons
Experimental design
Longitudinal Study
Assessment
33. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.
acetylcholine (ACh)
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
interneurons
Means-ends analysis
34. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.
Self-perception Theory
motor projection areas
Ideal Self
psychiatrist
35. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.
Primary Reinforcer
Dichromats
Types
Projective Tests
36. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)
sports psychologist
Circadian Rhythms
Jean Piaget
Standard score
37. The increase in sensitivity to light that occurs when the illumination level changes from high to low - causing chemicals in the rods and cones to regenerate and return to their inactive state.
Token economy
Dark adaptation
Sensation
Alfred Adler
38. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill
unconscious
zone of proximal development
Assessment
engineering psychologist
39. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe
Francis Galton
retina
Anna O.
engineering psychologist
40. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
Lev Vygotsky
triarchic theory of intelligence
Stanley Milgram
Burnout
41. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain
convolutions
Anorexia Nervosa
amnesia
brain
42. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
transfer appropriate processing
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
heritability
43. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
association areas
Discrimination
engineering psychologist
nature
44. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
Norms
Fixation
sample
Sucking reflex
45. 'Wernicke's area'; discovered area of left temporal lobe that involved language understanding: person damaged in this area uses correct words but they do not make sense
hypothesis
Phallic Stage
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Karl Wernicke
46. Synaptic gap or synaptic space; tiny gap between the terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron (almost never touch); location of the transfer of an impulse from one neuron to the next
synaptic cleft
ex post facto study
polarization
Biofeedback
47. A need or want that causes someone to act
Trichromats
motive
Anal Stage
Social Categorization
48. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
twin studies
social psychologist
Thanatology
correlational research
49. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction
cochlea
Gender stereotype
Functional fixedness
Phineas Gage
50. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response
Dichromats
Skinner Box
Superstitious Behavior
decay
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