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1. Moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication
Conformity
B.F. Skinner
thyroxine
Lawrence Kohlberg
2. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.
Reliability
menopause
aphasia
Projective Tests
3. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism
Androgynous
agonist
Personality
Primary Punisher
4. Largest - most complicated - and most advanced of the three divisions of the brain; comprises the thalamus - hypothalamus - limbic system - basal ganglia - corpus callosum - and cortex
forebrain
Longitudinal Study
(cerebral) cortex
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
5. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
Behavior therapy
Insomnia
Androgynous
Sensorimotor stage
6. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
Denial
bulimia nervosa
forensic psychologist
Teratogen
7. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response
spinal cord
Oral Stage
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Double-blind techniques
8. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
Experimental design
Unconscious
normal distribution
Psychodynamically
9. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
motor neurons
Linguistics
Perception
functional MRI (fMRI)
10. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
Martin Seligman
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
hindbrain
occipital lobes
11. Piaget's thrid stage of cognitive development (lasting from approximately age 6 or 7 to age 11 or 12) - during which the child develops the ability to understand constant factors in the environment - rules - and higher-order symbolic systems
Concrete operational stage
postconventional level of moral development
Stress
Signal Detection Theory
12. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function
decay
Insight therapy
Phineas Gage
experimenter bias
13. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
EEG (electroencephalogram)
spinal cord
Shaping
Karl Wernicke
14. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Nonverbal Communication
Intelligence
Darley & Latane
Arousal
15. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.
resting potential
Bystander Effect
Visual cortex
nerve
16. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
sociocultural psychology
functionalism
Gordon Allport
inhibitory neurotransmitter
17. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'
nature-nurture controversy
Zajonc & Markus
adrenal glands
Francis Galton
18. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.
Semantics
Behavior therapy
Client-centered therapy
Gender stereotype
19. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
Psychoneuroimmunology
Trait
Rosenhan
neurogenesis
20. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
Social Influence
photoreceptors
Types
motor neurons
21. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
mean
Zygote
habituation
Overjustification effect
22. Elements of an experimental situation that might cause a participant to perceive the situation in a certain way or become aware of the purpose of the study and thus bias the participant to behave in a certain way - and in so doing - distort results.
Demand characteristics
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
confounding variable
state-dependent learning
23. Emotional intelligence
Resistance
Daniel Goleman
Martin Seligman
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
24. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Bulimia Nervosa
postconventional level of moral development
Panic Attack
informed consent
25. Morality based on consequences to self
Solomon Asch
preconventional level of moral development
Type B behavior
neurotransmitters
26. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
Spontaneous Recovery
Conditioned Response
Sex
Psychotherapy
27. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Secondary Punisher
Stereotypes
genetics
28. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.
bulimia nervosa
glial cells
Social Influence
Systematic desensitization
29. The level of consciousness devoted to processes completely unavailable to conscious awareness (e.g. - fingernails growing)
Noam Chomsky
Visual cortex
nonconscious
resting potential
30. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
Psychodynamically
shaping
midbrain
fraternal twins
31. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction
afferent neuron nerve
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
cochlea
Group Polarization
32. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
Masters & Johnson
Demand characteristics
myelin sheath
Arousal
33. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
long-term potentiation
phenotype
Leon Festinger
Longitudinal Study
34. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
Rape
David Weschler
Morpheme
maintenance rehearsal
35. 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
Temperament
observer bias
Circadian Rhythms
36. Memory for specific information
synaptic vesicles
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Interpretation
declarative memory
37. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
Collective Unconscious
chunks
Conflict
Ekman & Friesen
38. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
Saccades
synapse
neuron
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
39. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
occipital lobes
Id
Resistance
Tolman
40. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
Algorithm
Shaping
receptor site
monism
41. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross
Blood-Brain Barrier
frequency distribution
triarchic theory of intelligence
procedural memory
42. In an experiment - the group of participants to whom a treatment is given
Sublimation
experimental group
forensic psychologist
Fixation
43. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
Stimulus Discrimination
Concept
episodic memory
rods
44. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
Social Facilitation
pineal gland
dopamine
elaborative rehearsal
45. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.
Problem Solving
Gender Schema Theory
Stereotypes
Dream analysis
46. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
survey research
Kenneth Clark
interneurons
Ideal Self
47. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking
Child abuse
cognitive psychology
strain studies
Archetypes
48. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and longstanding maladaptive behaviors that typically cause stress and/or social or occupational problems.
Personality disorders
Intrinsic motivation
Need
Gender
49. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
nerve
Socrates
Anna Freud
Color Blindness
50. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
primacy effect
instinct
opponent-process theory of emotion
Archetypes
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