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1. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
Syntax
Teratogen
sensory adaptation
endorphins
2. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
spinal cord
Unconditioned Stimulus
Hermann Ebbinghaus
elaborative rehearsal
3. Transparent covering of the eye
Arousal
Intelligence
cornea
Intrinsic motivation
4. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
endocrine system
storage
social psychologist
Object permanence
5. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Gordon Allport
primacy effect
Social Categorization
Fixation
6. The sense of hearing
audition
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Fulfillment
just noticeable difference (JND)
7. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
Lucid Dream
Deindividuation
Dichromats
double-blind procedure
8. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
structuralism
levels-of-processing approach
eclectic
9. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
Working through
Perception
Phoneme
lens
10. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
empiricism
Functional fixedness
positive psychology
hypnosis
11. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups
John Garcia
Expectancy Theories
Concordance rate
serotonin
12. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
debriefing
strain studies
just noticeable difference (JND)
Attitudes
13. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
central nervous system
Intrinsic motivation
gustation
Assimilation
14. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories
Social Interest
hippocampus
Blood-Brain Barrier
Embryo
15. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
Algorithm
René Descartes
Burnout
Expectancy Theories
16. 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
genetics
gene
Darley & Latane
John B Watson
17. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions
Mediation
Altruism
top-down processing
Self-actualization
18. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
working memory
Libido
Anna Freud
Kurt Lewin
19. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
standard deviation
William Dement
selection studies
Gender Schema Theory
20. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine
thyroid gland
behavior
ESP
Bonding
21. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Sensorimotor stage
Daniel Goleman
Phillip Zimbardo
Debriefing
22. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume
antagonist
Drug
Saccades
Conservation
23. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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24. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
psychoanalyst
schema
Group Polarization
levels-of-processing approach
25. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
Raymond Cattell
Type B behavior
nature
Broca's area
26. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.
Altruism
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
memory
hormone
27. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness
theory
Validity
gene
preconscious
28. Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information - usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.
Dissociative amnesia
action potential
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Thanatology
29. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information
retroactive interference
Consciousness
Model
Operant Conditioning
30. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients
Collective Unconscious
B.F. Skinner
sensory adaptation
Gazzaniga or Sperry
31. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
explicit memory
Projective Tests
brainstem
selection studies
32. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
Hobson & McCarley
Social Influence
Critical Period
Social Psychology
33. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged
Unconditioned Response
ethnocentrism
Stimulant
Fixation
34. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions
informed consent
Nonverbal Communication
Sucking reflex
triarchic theory of intelligence
35. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
participant
schema
motivated forgetting
transfer appropriate processing
36. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
memory span
Morpheme
Counterconditioning
behaviorism
37. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.
Social Categorization
Withdrawal Symptoms
Anxiety
Conditioning
38. Learning; systematic desensitization
William Sheldon
Brainstorming
B.F. Skinner
Wolpe
39. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
Phineas Gage
Subgoal analysis
Stimulus Discrimination
Secondary Punisher
40. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
Deviation IQ
binocular cues
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Zajonc & Markus
41. Reproductive glands-male - testes; female - ovaries
explicit memory
genotype
Extrinsic motivation
gonads
42. 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
Displacement
Antisocial personality disorder
occipital lobes
Phineas Gage
43. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.
Ageism
sociocultural psychology
Trait
Appraisal
44. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
Zajonc & Markus
neurogenesis
Personality disorders
Langer & Rodin
45. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes
self-fulfilling prophecy
Concordance rate
pitch
scientific method
46. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Social Loafing
Myopic
Double-blind techniques
Free association
47. 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
gustation
Trait
Orgasm phase
Brightness
48. Occurs when recall is better for a distinctive item - even if it occurs in the middle of a list
descriptive statistics
Algorithm
Von Restorff effect
Alfred Binet
49. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
Heuristics
Dissociative amnesia
monism
binocular cues
50. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
Ageism
identical twins
Shaping
Type B behavior
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