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1. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
David Rosenhan
Double-blind techniques
gustation
Decentration
2. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.
consolidation
Stimulus Discrimination
Transference
Prototype
3. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age
response bias
Karl Wernicke
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Representative sample
4. False beliefs that are inconsistent with reality but are held in spite of evidence that disproves them.
Delusions
psychiatrist
self-actualization
Dissociative amnesia
5. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
psychoanalytic
Social Facilitation
significant difference
Debriefing
6. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
nature
Self
Psychoneuroimmunology
psychoanalytic
7. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data
clinical psychologist
inferential statistics
statistics
Delusions
8. 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
Arousal
psychiatrist
Agoraphobia
Critical Period
9. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
Francis Galton
double-blind procedure
encoding specificity principle
Subgoal analysis
10. The sense of hearing
social psychologist
audition
significant difference
pineal gland
11. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent
Stanley Schachter
motivated forgetting
case study
Impression Formation
12. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits
all-or-none principle
gene
Carol Gilligan
levels-of-processing approach
13. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood
Puberty
cornea
Premack principle
primacy effect
14. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
conventional level of moral development
recency effect
Reflex
difference threshold
15. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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16. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
Temperament
sensory adaptation
Social Facilitation
Expectancy Theories
17. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
Reasoning
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Self-efficacy
Noam Chomsky
18. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
aversive conditioning
brain
rods
Extinction (classical conditioning)
19. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Excitement phase
Obedience
Defense Mechanism
20. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
Reaction Formation
placebo
Archetypes
synaptic cleft
21. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
Fulfillment
endocrine system
token economy
neuroscience
22. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
operational definition
dependent variable
Anna Freud
chunks
23. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse
hormone
Lev Vygotsky
neurotransmitters
Von Restorff effect
24. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
ex post facto study
frequency distribution
Extinction (classical conditioning)
school psychologist
25. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
Robert Zajonc
Moro reflex
Psychodynamically
habituation
26. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
Psychosurgery
Expectancy Theories
mean
cochlea
27. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons
experiment
efferent neuron nerve
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
28. The biologically based categories of male and female
sympathetic nervous system
Daniel Goleman
Primary Punisher
Sex
29. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
anorexia nervosa
set point
Raw score
Survey
30. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
Saccades
Self-fulfilling prophecy
declarative memory
polygenic inheritance
31. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Body Language
psychology
variable
Working through
32. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
Phobic disorders
genetics
Means-ends analysis
neurotransmitters
33. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
Resilience
Psychoactive Drug
Subliminal perception
brain
34. Ability of the visual perceptual system to recognize that an object remains constant in size regardless of its distance from the observer or the size of its image on the retina.
Social Psychology
Mary Ainsworth
Size constancy
olfaction
35. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.
interference
Displacement
Absolute threshold
Prejudice
36. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands
Stimulus Discrimination
Resilience
mutation
graded potential
37. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
introspection
refractory period
Oral Stage
Cross-sectional study
38. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.
Heuristics
Mainstreaming
Specific phobia
Wilhelm Wundt
39. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
Ex Post Facto Design
(cerebral) cortex
primacy effect
Resilience
40. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'
Bonding
frontal lobes
thalamus
Biofeedback
41. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues
forensic psychologist
neurotransmitters
human genomes
Gordon Allport
42. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
psychologist
motor neurons
Expectancy Theories
Zygote
43. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
Body Language
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
control group
Stimulant
44. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.
Cognitive theories
Intimacy
Leon Festinger
fluid intelligence
45. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand
experiment
Dissociative amnesia
Grasping reflex
Hyperopic
46. Visual theory - proposed by Herring - that color is coded by stimulation of three types of paired receptors; each pair of receptors is assumed to operate in an antagonist way so that stimulation by a given wavelength produces excitation (increased fi
counseling psychologist
Opponent-process theory
Wernicke's area
iris
47. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Edward Thorndike
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
dopamine
48. In Roger's theory of personality - the perception an individual has of himself or herself and of his or her relationships to other people and to various aspects of life.
debriefing
sensory adaptation
Self
inhibitory neurotransmitter
49. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
Social Influence
agonist
Time-out
Collective Unconscious
50. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
Charles Spearman
Spontaneous Recovery
Type A behavior
Altruism