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1. 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.






2. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response






3. Studies psychological development across the lifespan






4. In psychoanalysis - an unwillingness to cooperate - which a patient signals by showing a reluctance to provide the therapist with information or to help the therapist understand or interpret a situation.






5. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes






6. The process by which individuals lose their self-awareness and distinctive personality in the context of a group - which may lead them to engage in antinormative behavior.






7. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility






8. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior






9. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease






10. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement






11. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.






12. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age






13. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth






14. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.






15. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never






16. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.






17. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series






18. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum






19. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.






20. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons






21. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.






22. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.






23. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'






24. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh






25. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state






26. Transparent covering of the eye






27. The human need to fulfill one's potential






28. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.






29. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.






30. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth






31. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression






32. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives






33. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think






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






35. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer






36. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.






37. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand






38. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands






39. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.






40. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it






41. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned






42. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about






43. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research






44. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.






45. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal






46. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study






47. 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.






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






49. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched






50. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed







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