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1. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
structuralism
recency effect
explicit memory
authoritative parenting
2. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech
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3. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
Transference
flashbulb memories
instinct
Ex Post Facto Design
4. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
sensory neurons
phenotype
Oral Stage
Little Albert
5. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance
short-term storage
Robert Yerkes
unconscious
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
6. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ
Cross-sectional Studies
graded potential
Gender Identity
maintenance rehearsal
7. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates
flashbulb memories
Fundamental Attribution Error
selective attention
Clark Hull
8. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
ex post facto study
Drug
pitch
Primary Reinforcer
9. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Rosenhan
Substance Abuser
Ego
10. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
Mediation
sympathetic nervous system
dendrites
Divergent thinking
11. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
Socrates
association areas
Need for achievement
recessive gene
12. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body
Wilhelm Wundt
set point
Spontaneous Recovery
Babinski reflex
13. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and longstanding maladaptive behaviors that typically cause stress and/or social or occupational problems.
Abnormal Behavior
Paul Ekman
Personality disorders
Concordance rate
14. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
Latency Stage
Transduction
Nonverbal Communication
behavior
15. The spread between the highest and the lowest scores in a distribution
range
zone of proximal development
case study
Theory of mind
16. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.
Bulimia Nervosa
Motive
Prevalence
receptor site
17. Sharpness of vision
visual acuity
hypothalamus
Hyperopic
Ex Post Facto Design
18. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.
Tolman
adaptation
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Rational-emotive therapy
19. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information
scientific method
Receptive fields
memory
storage
20. Creates a computerized image using a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves
neural impulse
Stimulus Discrimination
Puberty
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
21. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
neurogenesis
photoreceptors
Myopic
Need for achievement
22. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
olfaction
Placebo effect
Standard score
Negative Reinforcement
23. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes
receptor site
genetic mapping
Fundamental Attribution Error
implicit memory
24. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
neural impulse
Extrinsic motivation
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
behavioral genetics
25. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
insulin
Harry Stack Sullivan
population
Token economy
26. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
Survey
menopause
Broca's area
resting potential
27. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)
William Sheldon
Rape
Karen Horney
Aversive counterconditioning
28. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically
Motivation
Orgasm phase
Hermann Ebbinghaus
neural plasticity
29. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning
Cognitive Dissonance
Classical Conditioning
ex post facto study
Social Facilitation
30. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
Debriefing
Lawrence Kohlberg
Leon Festinger
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
31. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites
synapse
Linguistics
John Garcia
Phallic Stage
32. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
Ideal Self
Algorithm
Resistance
afferent neuron nerve
33. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned
Wechsler intelligence tests
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Primary Reinforcer
Appraisal
34. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
nonconscious
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Abnormal Behavior
Family therapy
35. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma
Collective Unconscious
Representative sample
nerve
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
36. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
hindbrain
debriefing
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
lens
37. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Solomon Asch
conventional level of moral development
Gazzaniga or Sperry
38. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
heritability
schema
Unconditioned Response
ions
39. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics
placebo
parasympathetic nervous system
Case study
optic nerve
40. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Observational Learning Theory
Nonverbal Communication
Psychoneuroimmunology
41. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Percentile score
postconventional level of moral development
rehearsal
Dichromats
42. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
Optic chiasm
Psychosurgery
forensic psychologist
Socrates
43. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
Operant Conditioning
Defense Mechanism
sensory neurons
Time-out
44. A trait or inherited characteristic that has increased in a population because it solved a problem of survival or reproduction
adaptation
Personality disorders
iris
Masters & Johnson
45. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
Judith Langlois
psychologist
Preoperational stage
Resilience
46. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.
Psychoanalysis
pons
mutation
Prejudice
47. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results
confounding variable
naturalistic observation
Excitement phase
self-fulfilling prophecy
48. The general state of being aware of and responsive to events in the environment - as well as one's own mental processes
Consciousness
measure of central tendency
Resistance
gustation
49. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
decay
school psychologist
forebrain
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
50. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
Backward search
Placebo effect
behaviorism
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