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1. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time
Type A behavior
blind spot
preconscious
Herman von Helmholtz
2. 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.
Social Influence
Placebo effect
John B Watson
Impression Formation
3. Memory for specific information
functionalism
Social Psychology
declarative memory
René Descartes
4. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input
ESP
William James
Latent Learning
Experimental design
5. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
Demand characteristics
Primary Reinforcer
imagery
Group therapy
6. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
Von Restorff effect
Electromagnetic Radiation
Thanatology
Representative sample
7. A therapy that is based on the application of learning principles to human behavior and that focuses on changing overt behaviors rather than on understanding subjective feelings - unconscious processes - or motivations; also known as behavior modific
Longitudinal Study
Superego
Phoneme
Behavior therapy
8. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
Depressive disorders
Denial
Decision making
neuropsychologist
9. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond
Walter B. Cannon
demand characteristics
polarization
Gender Schema Theory
10. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.
Gordon Allport
Receptive fields
Altruism
Experimental design
11. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning
menopause
Phineas Gage
Latent Learning
Stimulus Discrimination
12. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh
Phillip Zimbardo
Circadian Rhythms
Ex Post Facto Design
interference
13. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Charles Darwin
pineal gland
Gender Identity
Light
14. 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
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Gender Schema Theory
Anorexia Nervosa
Self-actualization
15. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
levels-of-processing approach
Logic
Naturalistic observation
16. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter
agonist
Stress
Wernicke's area
thyroid gland
17. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
Motive
timbre
Discrimination
Psychosurgery
18. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'
sensory memory
adrenal glands
flashbulb memories
Regression
19. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
Fundamental Attribution Error
Babinski reflex
Trichromats
Social Influence
20. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
neural plasticity
central nervous system
double-blind procedure
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
21. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
sympathetic nervous system
William James
pons
Hermann Ebbinghaus
22. 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
Langer & Rodin
Trichromatic theory
Generalized anxiety disorder
Carol Gilligan
23. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
Need
Ideal Self
Consciousness
Hyperopic
24. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits
Sucking reflex
gene
Schizophrenic disorders
functional MRI (fMRI)
25. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
mode
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
sensory memory
Social Psychology
26. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Phineas Gage
Zajonc & Markus
Overjustification effect
27. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
DNA
Preoperational stage
Equity Theory
educational psychologist
28. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
Vasocongestion
Model
Conformity
Dichromats
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
thyroxine
thyroid gland
Latent Learning
natural selection
30. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.
monism
significant difference
lens
Cognitive Psychology
31. Reflex that causes a newborn to turn the head toward a light touch on lips or cheek
polarization
Descriptive Studies
Rooting reflex
Sensorimotor stage
32. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
random sample
Consciousness
Robert Zajonc
instinct
33. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
introspection
zone of proximal development
Circadian Rhythms
transfer appropriate processing
34. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
corpus callosum
pons
Signal Detection Theory
habituation
35. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
Drive
spinal cord
dominant genes
schema
36. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
Prejudice
graded potential
Myopic
Gender Schema Theory
37. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
Deviation IQ
Emotion
Henry Murray
Survey
38. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
achievement test
behavioral genetics
zone of proximal development
Extrinsic motivation
39. The human need to fulfill one's potential
empiricism
self-actualization
Mary Cover-Jones
Personality disorders
40. Deals with the extent to which heredity and the environment each influence behavior
parallel processing
Daniel Goleman
nature-nurture controversy
Longitudinal Study
41. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.
parathormone
Trichromats
Embryo
Sensorimotor stage
42. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Double bind
Dissociative amnesia
Monochromats
eclectic
43. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
agonist
Vasocongestion
theory
Psycholinguistics
44. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
hormone
emotional intelligence
Algorithm
ex post facto study
45. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
Masters & Johnson
adrenal glands
Personality
hippocampus
46. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
cochlea
Fundamental Attribution Error
Variable-interval Schedule
mutation
47. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment
Reaction Formation
Equity Theory
Extrinsic motivation
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
48. 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
Carl Jung
rehearsal
variable
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
49. Number of wavelengths that pass a point in a given amount of time; determines hue of light and the pitch of a sound
population
Percentile score
frequency
John Locke
50. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Overjustification effect
glial cells
Psychoactive Drug