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1. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands
Assessment
Grammar
Backward search
axon
2. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
Psychodynamically
Dichromats
relative refractory period
habituation
3. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.
crystallized intelligence
Intimacy
retroactive interference
anterograde amnesia
4. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent
Anna O.
Phallic Stage
debriefing
case study
5. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
selection studies
Carl Jung
correlation coefficient
John B Watson
6. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Trichromatic theory
Secondary Reinforcer
Group therapy
hypnosis
7. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
Standardization
Reinforcer
Secondary Sex Characteristics
recessive gene
8. 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
storage
Biofeedback
Mary Cover-Jones
Linguistics
9. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
normal distribution
Approach-approach conflict
double-blind procedure
10. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.
working memory
Major depressive disorder
Karen Horney
Cross-sectional Studies
11. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
ions
convolutions
Hobson & McCarley
sound localization
12. Twins from a single fertilized egg (zygote) with the same genetic makeup; also called monozygotic (MZ) twins
science
Martin Seligman
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
identical twins
13. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Noam Chomsky
Drug
genetic mapping
14. Humanistic psychology; Contributions: founded client-centered therapy - theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth - unconditional positive regard -
Egocentrism
Prosocial Behavior
Theory of mind
Carl Rogers
15. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met
Karen Horney
Actor-observer Effect
informed consent
Decision making
16. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)
Robert Sternberg
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Equity Theory
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
17. Number of wavelengths that pass a point in a given amount of time; determines hue of light and the pitch of a sound
selection studies
frequency
Sensation
authoritarian parenting
18. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism
Embryo
Collective Unconscious
Morality
Prevalence
19. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems
Concrete operational stage
counseling psychologist
frequency
encoding
20. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.
psychometrician
Holmes & Rahe
Vulnerability
bulimia nervosa
21. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
Naturalistic observation
Social Need
Robert Rosenthal
rehearsal
22. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism
Interpersonal Attraction
Prevalence
acetylcholine (ACh)
Primary Punisher
23. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
Placebo effect
brain
gene
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
24. Rules of proper and acceptable conduct that investigators use to guide psychological research
ethics
authoritative parenting
sensory memory
functional MRI (fMRI)
25. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
thyroxine
Perception
state-dependent learning
Reflex
26. Sense of smell
Gender Schema Theory
olfaction
Actor-observer Effect
Hobson & McCarley
27. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat
John B Watson
Conditioning
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Brainstorming
28. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
industrial/organizational psychologist
Biofeedback
Observational Learning Theory
Alfred Adler
29. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)
Charles Spearman
Behavior therapy
blind spot
triarchic theory of intelligence
30. Graph of a frequency distribution that shows the number of instances of obtained scores - usually with the data points connect by straight lines
Stressor
frequency polygon
Language
retroactive interference
31. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
Health psychology
evolutionary psychology
pseudoscience
Henry Murray
32. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions
Ex Post Facto Design
top-down processing
Vasocongestion
brainstem
33. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.
Psychoanalysis
placebo effect
sample
industrial/organizational psychologist
34. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
Displacement
unconscious
Specific phobia
Androgynous
35. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.
Intelligence
variability
Sociobiology
Teratogen
36. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
explicit memory
introspection
pancreas
Bulimia Nervosa
37. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Circadian Rhythms
Abnormal psychology
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Fixation
38. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence
Groupthink
measure of central tendency
ethnocentrism
Edward Thorndike
39. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment
Oedipus Complex
Resistance
William James
Temperament
40. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
Depressive disorders
instinct
psychometrician
Mary Cover-Jones
41. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
Unconditioned Response
Superego
episodic memory
Trait
42. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles
Antisocial personality disorder
Phillip Zimbardo
Rationalization
Robert Zajonc
43. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
René Descartes
behaviorism
split brain patients
sound localization
44. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross
Perception
kinesthesis
Blood-Brain Barrier
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
45. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
Law of Effect
Robert Yerkes
refractory period
decay
46. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
Sensorimotor stage
Reliability
all-or-none principle
Resolution Phase
47. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
retrieval
nurture
Substance Abuser
Premack principle
48. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ on an important dimension
Systematic desensitization
Cross-sectional study
Overjustification effect
midbrain
49. 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.
cochlea
sound localization
Interpretation
timbre
50. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.
Projection
Brightness
Self-actualization
Reflex