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1. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.
Stanley Milgram
Latent Learning
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Grammar
2. 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.
significant difference
ex post facto study
Leon Festinger
Demand characteristics
3. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
Wolpe
Rosenhan
Gender
experimenter bias
4. The highness or lowness of a sound
pitch
encoding
Transference
Hans Eysenck
5. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
Alfred Adler
operational definition
Plateau phase
lens
6. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher
Brainstorming
Behavior therapy
significant difference
endocrine glands
7. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.
Punishment
central nervous system
Grasping reflex
Visual cortex
8. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
statistics
Mainstreaming
Fulfillment
Gazzaniga or Sperry
9. Growth in the ability to tell right from wrong - control impulses - and act ethically
Longitudinal Study
Fundamental Attribution Error
developmental psychologist
moral development
10. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort
case study
Harry Harlow
Carl Rogers
Displacement
11. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory
levels-of-processing approach
psychometrician
Jean Piaget
developmental psychologist
12. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
selective attention
binocular cues
Little Albert
retina
13. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)
set point
parathyroid
Egocentrism
Blood-Brain Barrier
14. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
Mainstreaming
frontal lobes
Lewis Terman
positive psychology
15. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
Abnormal Behavior
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Morpheme
Cognitive theories
16. Body sense of equilibrium and balance
vestibular sense
Standard score
Leon Festinger
Ageism
17. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
set point
range
cornea
psychiatrist
18. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
Abnormal Behavior
Groupthink
Delusions
hindbrain
19. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment
Unconditioned Response
Moro reflex
Group therapy
Solomon Asch
20. 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.
John Locke
Self
Ideal Self
Rosenthal & Jacobson
21. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste
Impression Formation
Self
Social Cognition
glial cells
22. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
control group
aversive conditioning
Accommodation
Classical Conditioning
23. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)
Jean Piaget
storage
Darley & Latane
William Dement
24. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters
behaviorism
Abnormal psychology
axon terminal
habituation
25. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
dendrites
Substance Abuser
Resolution Phase
decay
26. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
Operant Conditioning
Residual type of schizophrenia
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
sympathetic nervous system
27. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
Law of Effect
Stress
motivated forgetting
Karen Horney
28. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
Appraisal
Generalized anxiety disorder
Brainstorming
Howard Gardner
29. The extent to which scores differ from one another
variability
amnesia
Anxiety
Personality disorders
30. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
Vasocongestion
Martin Seligman
David Rosenhan
Type B behavior
31. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
Model
Debriefing
Reliability
Paul Ekman
32. Intelligence; found that specific mental talents were highly correlated - concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled 'g' (general ability)
Charles Spearman
anorexia nervosa
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Lewis Terman
33. A mass of tissue that is attached to the wall f the uterus and connected to the developing fetus by the umbilical cord; it supplies nutrients and eliminates waste products
Residual type of schizophrenia
Phineas Gage
Placenta
Defense Mechanism
34. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
Nonverbal Communication
Superstitious Behavior
Plateau phase
Personality
35. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
experimenter bias
René Descartes
Darley & Latane
motor projection areas
36. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
pituitary gland
Conditioned Response
Monochromats
Intimacy
37. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
Debriefing
Positive Reinforcement
Bystander Effect
percentile score
38. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream
endocrine glands
thyroid gland
gate control theory
Denial
39. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior
Emotion
Psychosurgery
Health psychology
Wechsler intelligence tests
40. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
David McClelland
Gender
limbic system
Percentile score
41. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.
Rape
Syntax
brain
fluid intelligence
42. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.
gate control theory
Brainstorming
Concordance rate
Body Language
43. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
hindbrain
Percentile score
Vulnerability
Stanley Schachter
44. The cessation of the ability to reproduce
Reasoning
peripheral nervous system
Sex
menopause
45. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve
David Weschler
nervous system
Robert Rosenthal
Normal curve
46. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
implicit memory
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Psycholinguistics
Stanley Milgram
47. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning
survey research
state-dependent learning
synapse
Gibson & Walk
48. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine
Morality
thyroid gland
Alzheimer's Disease
long-term memory
49. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.
Lawrence Kohlberg
behaviorism
Health psychology
Obedience
50. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Representative sample
Vulnerability
maintenance rehearsal
gonads
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