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1. A fertilized egg
Self-efficacy
peripheral nervous system
independent variable
Zygote
2. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
Functional fixedness
Descriptive Studies
brainstem
Wilhelm Wundt
3. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Equity Theory
Semantics
schema
Ego
4. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned
Negative Reinforcement
Conditioning
Approach-avoidance conflict
refractory period
5. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.
Observational Learning Theory
levels-of-processing approach
Rational-emotive therapy
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
6. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems
Gender
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Clark Hull
psychoanalyst
7. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Abnormal psychology
Phineas Gage
Plateau phase
Carl Jung
8. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.
Alzheimer's Disease
Social Psychology
dualism
Preconscious
9. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
hormone
Survey
blind spot
central nervous system
10. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
Raymond Cattell
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Perception
Need for achievement
11. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
Convergent thinking
functionalism
Fetus
consolidation
12. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
descriptive statistics
Elaboration Likelihood Model
percentile score
Cognitive theories
13. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
retrieval
crystallized intelligence
Extrinsic motivation
Placenta
14. 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
Solomon Asch
polygenic inheritance
Edward Bradford Titchener
difference threshold
15. 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
control group
Gestalt psychology
normal distribution
Phobic disorders
16. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.
Trait
Motive
Reinforcer
Reasoning
17. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
Spontaneous Recovery
Law of Effect
anorexia nervosa
Double-blind techniques
18. 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
frequency
zone of proximal development
Psychodynamically
19. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
Primary Punisher
Carl Jung
frontal lobes
pseudoscience
20. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream
Behavior therapy
nature
Manifest Content
thyroid gland
21. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
norepinephrine
Regression
pancreas
experimenter bias
22. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism
Primary Punisher
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Transference
Homeostasis
23. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking
thyroid gland
Intelligence
cognitive psychology
resting potential
24. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
Double-blind techniques
Hermann Rorschach
Collective Unconscious
selective attention
25. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments
Coping
cognitive psychology
behaviorism
replication
26. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it
fluid intelligence
Attachment
Reinforcer
Major depressive disorder
27. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
clinical psychologist
Debriefing
motor neurons
pituitary gland
28. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Self-efficacy
random sample
Langer & Rodin
Fulfillment
29. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.
Size constancy
Coping
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Cognitive theories
30. 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
Psychoanalysis
Unconscious
Hyperopic
Emotion
31. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
Noam Chomsky
storage
Gestalt psychology
Personality
32. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
habituation
Object permanence
Hue
Robert Rosenthal
33. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter
agonist
significant difference
cornea
corpus callosum
34. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval
Fixed-interval Schedule
selective attention
Panic Attack
psychiatrist
35. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information
Darley & Latane
top-down processing
neurotransmitters
memory
36. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
Self-efficacy
Gordon Allport
Prejudice
neurotransmitters
37. 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
natural selection
Psychophysics
Opponent-process theory
glial cells
38. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Developmental Psychology
replication
Demand characteristics
39. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
Self
Ekman & Friesen
Paul Ekman
Hans Eysenck
40. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
Standardization
Nonverbal Communication
Edward Bradford Titchener
norepinephrine
41. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
neuropsychologist
sympathetic nervous system
Variable-interval Schedule
Heuristics
42. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Burnout
Primary Reinforcer
standard deviation
43. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
Paul Ekman
functionalism
Teratogen
Hermann Ebbinghaus
44. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
parallel processing
Rooting reflex
Resilience
Stanley Milgram
45. Released by thyroid; hormone that regulates the body's metabolism; OVERACTIVE-over-excitability - insomnia - reduced attention span - fatigue - snap decisions - reduced concentration (hyperthyroidism); UNDERACTIVE-desire to sleep - constantly tired -
sports psychologist
Schema
Child abuse
thyroxine
46. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
David Rosenhan
humanistic psychology
Concept
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
47. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
Primary Punisher
aversive conditioning
David Rosenhan
episodic memory
48. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
Cognitive Psychology
Leon Festinger
primacy effect
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
49. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
Substance Abuser
Sucking reflex
Mainstreaming
Abnormal Behavior
50. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
myelin sheath
timbre
measure of central tendency
Overjustification effect
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