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1. A need or want that causes someone to act
Learned Helplessness
Algorithm
motive
Semantics
2. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain
genetics
Wernicke's area
convolutions
Types
3. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Body Language
Psychosurgery
somatic nervous system
4. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
Optic chiasm
Self-efficacy
Consciousness
Self-actualization
5. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
ex post facto study
difference threshold
olfaction
family studies
6. 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
David McClelland
Critical Period
Groupthink
mean
7. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body
Bipolar disorder
neuron
working memory
correlation coefficient
8. Following a strong emotion - an opposing emotion counters the first emotion - lessening the experience of that emotion; on repeated occasions - the opposing emotion becomes stronger
variable
Punishment
opponent-process theory of emotion
self-actualization
9. 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
sensory adaptation
cerebellum
normal distribution
Personality disorders
10. Theory that holds that an observer's perception depends not only on the intensity of a stimulus but also on the observer's motivation - the criteria he or she sets for determining that a signal is present - and on the background noise.
midbrain
Mediation
Descriptive Studies
Signal Detection Theory
11. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.
Hobson & McCarley
survey research
Self-serving Bias
Brightness
12. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization
polarization
association areas
Fundamental Attribution Error
(cerebral) cortex
13. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
brainstem
dendrites
Self-efficacy
14. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood
forebrain
Zajonc & Markus
Stimulant
neuropsychologist
15. The cessation of the ability to reproduce
Phobic disorders
Daniel Goleman
social psychologist
menopause
16. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning
Alzheimer's Disease
survey research
Convergent thinking
Means-ends analysis
17. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Classical Conditioning
William Sheldon
Hyperopic
18. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
Fetus
Tolerance
Wilhelm Wundt
Psychoanalysis
19. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
genotype
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Abnormal Behavior
authoritative parenting
20. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
structuralism
Standard score
Mediation
Leon Festinger
21. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
Alfred Adler
Norms
Self-actualization
psychology
22. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters
Abnormal psychology
Insight therapy
Drug
synaptic vesicles
23. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
pancreas
Consciousness
state-dependent learning
Need
24. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory
Conflict
Means-ends analysis
Karl Wernicke
retrieval
25. 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
motor projection areas
Family therapy
refractory period
significant difference
26. Commonly occurring behavior can reinforce a less frequent behavior
parasympathetic nervous system
Sex
Premack principle
Mary Ainsworth
27. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
experimenter bias
Brainstorming
forensic psychologist
Anxiety
28. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.
Learned Helplessness
Problem Solving
Validity
dependent variable
29. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
fraternal twins
brain
rods
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
30. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.
parietal lobes
Learned helplessness
Experimental design
episodic memory
31. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic
Formal operational stage
Insight therapy
psychology
Saturation
32. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
maintenance rehearsal
strain studies
relative refractory period
Expectancy Theories
33. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking
neurotransmitters
Metal retardation
cochlea
cognitive psychology
34. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
Depressive disorders
Abraham Maslow
structuralism
Social Facilitation
35. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
preconventional level of moral development
Discrimination
Survey
Drive
36. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Langer & Rodin
Type A behavior
Creativity
37. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.
Resistance
conventional level of moral development
Consciousness
identical twins
38. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
David McClelland
Vasocongestion
refractory period
Object permanence
39. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
Social Interest
pupil
Social Loafing
shaping
40. Electrically charged particles found both inside and outside a neuron; negative ions are found inside the cell membrane in a polarized neuron
graded potential
ions
Psychoanalysis
timbre
41. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
storage
Logic
Light
Punishment
42. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
decay
pseudoscience
efferent neuron nerve
shaping
43. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Self-serving Bias
Wilhelm Wundt
significant difference
Percentile score
44. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving
Self-actualization
Plateau phase
Alzheimer's Disease
descriptive statistics
45. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
Zajonc & Markus
Solomon Asch
Insight therapy
Rape
46. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
occipital lobes
Phallic Stage
synapse
episodic memory
47. Establish the relationship between two variables
rehearsal
Algorithm
proactive interference
correlational research
48. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
explicit memory
Mediation
Broca's area
bulimia nervosa
49. Sense of taste
psychometrician
insulin
gustation
Benjamin Whorf
50. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness
Insight therapy
humanistic psychology
Martin Seligman
just noticeable difference (JND)
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