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1. Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.






2. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing






3. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond






4. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior






5. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results






6. Neutral stimulus that - through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus - begins to elicit a conditioned response






7. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions






8. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings






9. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates






10. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics






11. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.






12. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.






13. The situation that occurs when the drug becomes part of the body's functioning and produces withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued






14. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body






15. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results






16. Observed group differences based on the era when people were born and grew up - exposing them to particular experiences that may affect the results of cross-sectional studies






17. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.






18. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in






19. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging






20. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.






21. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes






22. 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.






23. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea






24. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.






25. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups






26. Response to the belief that the IV will have an effect - rather than the IV's actual effect - which can be a confounding variable






27. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions






28. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.






29. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors






30. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon






31. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking






32. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses






33. 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.






34. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream






35. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi






36. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response






37. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it






38. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ






39. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.






40. Small area of retina where image is focused






41. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they believe they are so special and unique that other people cannot understand them and risky behaviors will not harm them






42. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories






43. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter






44. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.






45. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)






46. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.






47. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all






48. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory






49. Intelligence and learning - self-fulfilling prophecy; Study Basics: Researchers misled teachers into believing that certain students had higher IQs. Teachers changed own behaviors and effectively raised the IQ of the randomly chosen students






50. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities







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