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1. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects






2. 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






3. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses






4. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance






5. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches






6. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal






7. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.






8. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles






9. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation






10. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe






11. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur






12. In Adler's theory - a feeling of openness with all humanity.






13. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected






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 -






15. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation






16. Reflex that causes a newborn to turn the head toward a light touch on lips or cheek






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






18. Fixed - overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.






19. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence






20. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.






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






22. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant






23. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings






24. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging






25. Areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions - rather - they are involved in higher mental processes such as thinking - planning - and communicating






26. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life






27. 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






28. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.






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






30. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings






31. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions






32. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites






33. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.






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






35. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.






36. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform






37. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data






38. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.






39. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data






40. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.






41. Memory a person is not aware of possessing






42. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI






43. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology






44. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world






45. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held






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






47. 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






48. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.






49. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings






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







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