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1. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place
working memory
Antisocial personality disorder
spinal cord
parasympathetic nervous system
2. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
adrenal glands
Higher-order Conditioning
hindbrain
Solomon Asch
3. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
Socrates
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
kinesthesis
retroactive interference
4. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships
prenatal development
psychology
Social Need
selective attention
5. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.
hindbrain
myelin sheath
statistics
Sublimation
6. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Cognitive Dissonance
Intelligence
transfer appropriate processing
Babinski reflex
7. First menstrual period
Dissociative disorders
menarche
Theory of mind
Photoreceptors
8. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
phenotype
Assimilation
chunks
Carl Jung
9. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond
frequency polygon
Learned Helplessness
demand characteristics
Unconditioned Response
10. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.
sensory adaptation
Unconscious
Arousal
Masters & Johnson
11. The situation that occurs when the drug becomes part of the body's functioning and produces withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued
Repression
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
psychobiology
Dependence
12. An explanation of behavior that emphasizes the entirety of life rather than individual components of behavior and focuses on human dignity - individual choice - and self-worth
hypnosis
Secondary Punisher
Normal curve
Humanistic theory
13. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
Critical Period
Color Blindness
Unconscious
Androgynous
14. A process through which people receive information about the status of a physical system and use this feedback information to learn to control the activity of that system
forebrain
preconscious
Biofeedback
Norms
15. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe
Drive
Collective Unconscious
Francis Galton
psychoanalyst
16. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Denial
Classical Conditioning
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
17. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
Zajonc & Markus
visual acuity
transfer appropriate processing
Fixation
18. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population
Egocentrism
Insomnia
Heritability
Bulimia Nervosa
19. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
photoreceptors
procedural memory
hypothalamus
fraternal twins
20. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior
clinical psychologist
self-fulfilling prophecy
Trait
crystallized intelligence
21. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain
Repression
Wilhelm Wundt
Judith Langlois
gate control theory
22. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
Wernicke's area
Edward Bradford Titchener
Walter B. Cannon
Personal Fable
23. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
Phoneme
psychiatrist
Trichromats
Health psychology
24. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.
Displacement
Subliminal perception
ex post facto study
somatic nervous system
25. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
scientific method
Albert Bandura
zone of proximal development
sample
26. The behavior of giving up or not responding to punishment - exhibited by people or animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they have no control
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Normal curve
Semantics
Learned Helplessness
27. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
Subliminal perception
Metal retardation
adaptation
difference threshold
28. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
Von Restorff effect
Preoperational stage
Approach-avoidance conflict
counseling psychologist
29. Depth cues that are based on one eye
monocular cues
placebo
Archetypes
psychoanalyst
30. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.
Anal Stage
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Antisocial personality disorder
storage
31. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
Object permanence
Homeostasis
double-blind procedure
ex post facto study
32. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
just noticeable difference (JND)
anterograde amnesia
Syntax
naturalistic observation
33. Threadlike structure within the nucleus of cells that contain genes
declarative memory
Preoperational stage
Ernst Weber
chromosome
34. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
Factor analysis
Social Categorization
set point
Functional fixedness
35. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning
Phineas Gage
Carl Jung
Perception
Conformity
36. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Psychoactive Drug
hypnosis
Monochromats
split brain patients
37. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
Reaction Formation
encoding specificity principle
acetylcholine (ACh)
Robert Zajonc
38. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
pupil
Object permanence
Syntax
Social Need
39. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
midbrain
instinct
imagery
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
40. The time in to development of an organism when it is especially sensitive to certain environmental influences; outside of that period the same influences will have far less effect
Anal Stage
Critical Period
Burnout
Aversive counterconditioning
41. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
nature-nurture controversy
functionalism
Rooting reflex
42. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically
gene
Linguistics
dependent variable
neural plasticity
43. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
identical twins
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Saturation
dendrites
44. Twins from a single fertilized egg (zygote) with the same genetic makeup; also called monozygotic (MZ) twins
Collective Unconscious
identical twins
double-blind procedure
memory
45. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire
excitatory neurotransmitter
Preoperational stage
aversive conditioning
educational psychologist
46. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
Fulfillment
Group therapy
Secondary Punisher
Dream analysis
47. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
neuropsychologist
nerve
flashbulb memories
gene
48. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants
Trichromats
Self-fulfilling prophecy
gonads
Noam Chomsky
49. Graphical record of brain-wave activity obtained through electrodes placed on the scalp and forehead
Insight therapy
Theory of mind
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Ageism
50. Reproductive glands-male - testes; female - ovaries
gonads
Self-serving Bias
interneurons
Depressive disorders
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