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1. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative
evolutionary psychology
hindbrain
Specific phobia
family studies
2. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics
representative sample
Insomnia
Coping
Rosenthal & Jacobson
3. The level of consciousness devoted to processes completely unavailable to conscious awareness (e.g. - fingernails growing)
David McClelland
nonconscious
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Ideal Self
4. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
David Weschler
Emotion
kinesthesis
Benjamin Whorf
5. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
Harry Stack Sullivan
Premack principle
Wechsler intelligence tests
Kenneth Clark
6. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
Psycholinguistics
Self-perception Theory
humanistic psychology
median
7. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
Developmental Psychology
Naturalistic observation
Elaboration Likelihood Model
set point
8. Threadlike structure within the nucleus of cells that contain genes
gustation
Reflex
token economy
chromosome
9. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
fraternal twins
inhibitory neurotransmitter
population
Unconditioned Stimulus
10. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
standard deviation
Wechsler intelligence tests
Grammar
Libido
11. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
mutation
Group therapy
Expectancy Theories
Critical Period
12. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
Normal curve
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
sensory memory
Unconditioned Stimulus
13. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable
Cross-sectional study
confounding variable
Actor-observer Effect
Denial
14. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
Negative Reinforcement
Monochromats
neurogenesis
Saccades
15. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad
Morality
Attributions
Insight therapy
Social Cognition
16. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data
Factor analysis
Prosocial Behavior
Cognitive theories
midbrain
17. 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
association areas
Standard score
psychoanalytic
Coping
18. Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.
Dichromats
Socrates
Aggression
placebo effect
19. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.
Intimacy
rods
Concept
Carl Jung
20. A number that expresses the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables - ranging from -1 to +1
working memory
selection studies
Psychotherapy
correlation coefficient
21. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving
Percentile score
Self-actualization
Attitudes
twin studies
22. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe
Carol Gilligan
Social Categorization
state-dependent learning
Double-blind techniques
23. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data
Displacement
Size constancy
statistics
empiricism
24. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.
statistics
Transduction
Depressive disorders
Gender stereotype
25. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area
Orgasm phase
opponent-process theory of emotion
Prevalence
percentile score
26. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
Discrimination
aptitude test
receptor site
Self-perception Theory
27. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
Syntax
storage
standard deviation
Grammar
28. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
Intelligence
Prosocial Behavior
Zajonc & Markus
shaping
29. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
timbre
genetic mapping
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Socrates
30. Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of - and desire to avoid - situations in which the person might be exposed to scrutiny by others and might behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way.
genotype
Social phobia
transfer appropriate processing
Social Cognition
31. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
Drive
Phallic Stage
mutation
Free association
32. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
antagonist
anorexia nervosa
humanistic psychology
Need
33. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
Noam Chomsky
descriptive statistics
Experimental design
Monochromats
34. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
Psycholinguistics
standard deviation
gene
Gender stereotype
35. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
Stanley Milgram
hypothalamus
human genomes
Family therapy
36. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.
Blood-Brain Barrier
Stereotypes
maintenance rehearsal
Trichromats
37. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat
Generalized anxiety disorder
Absolute threshold
Self-serving Bias
menopause
38. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal
neurotransmitters
James-Lange theory of emotion
Negative Reinforcement
Hermann Ebbinghaus
39. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
memory span
bulimia nervosa
self-fulfilling prophecy
Concrete operational stage
40. Netlike system of neurons that weaves through limbic system and plays an important role in attention - arousal - and alert functions; arouses and alerts higher parts of the brain; anesthetics work by temporary shutting off RF system
Stimulus Generalization
Spontaneous Recovery
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Ivan Pavlov
41. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
nervous system
pituitary gland
amnesia
Francis Galton
42. First menstrual period
menarche
Transduction
Cognitive Dissonance
sociocultural psychology
43. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body
implicit memory
Kurt Lewin
Social Loafing
set point
44. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
primacy effect
debriefing
Types
Phoneme
45. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives
Charles Spearman
Approach-approach conflict
Resistance
action potential
46. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically
experimenter bias
neural plasticity
Unconscious
sensory memory
47. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory
Rooting reflex
retrieval
Walter B. Cannon
Symptom substitution
48. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
Fulfillment
recency effect
confounding variable
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
49. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body
genetics
Symptom substitution
neuron
Edward Bradford Titchener
50. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
Social Categorization
Noam Chomsky
Superstitious Behavior
visual acuity
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