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1. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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2. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics
timbre
representative sample
Sex
Grasping reflex
3. Organ lying between the stomach and small intestine; regulates blood sugar by secreting to regulating hormones insulin and glucagon
Hans Eysenck
James-Lange theory of emotion
pons
pancreas
4. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior
Theory of mind
Wilhelm Wundt
epinephrine
independent variable
5. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
Drive
Saccades
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Zajonc & Markus
6. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
Ego
Cross-sectional Studies
action potential
(cerebral) cortex
7. Biologist; developed theory of evolution; transmutation of species - natural selection - evolution by common descent; 'The Origin of Species' catalogs his voyage on The Beagle
Perception
Decision making
Intimacy
Charles Darwin
8. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.
educational psychologist
Projection
Group Polarization
(cerebral) cortex
9. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
Anorexia Nervosa
Dream analysis
Electromagnetic Radiation
Sensorimotor stage
10. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
Syntax
Trichromatic theory
Overjustification effect
Drug
11. The process by which the probability of an organism's emitting a response is reduced when reinforcement no longer follows the response
receptor site
Lawrence Kohlberg
Collective Unconscious
Extinction (operant conditioning)
12. 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
Plateau phase
variability
Learned Helplessness
Factor analysis
13. 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
Types
Secondary Reinforcer
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
14. The increase in sensitivity to light that occurs when the illumination level changes from high to low - causing chemicals in the rods and cones to regenerate and return to their inactive state.
Dark adaptation
Karen Horney
thyroxine
cognitive psychology
15. According to Piaget - the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences
timbre
Self-actualization
Ernst Weber
Accommodation
16. 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
psychobiology
significant difference
interference
Concept
17. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
menarche
timbre
sound localization
Deviation IQ
18. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.
Cognitive theories
Broca's area
aversive conditioning
Operant Conditioning
19. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Egocentrism
Lewis Terman
Rosenhan
20. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
William Sheldon
variability
Little Albert
Self-actualization
21. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.
photoreceptors
random sample
debriefing
Body Language
22. Sense of taste
Phineas Gage
gustation
explicit memory
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
23. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
Self-perception Theory
Aggression
Edward Bradford Titchener
Cross-sectional Studies
24. Memory for specific information
Factor analysis
declarative memory
Teratogen
memory span
25. A division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions; made up of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
Extinction (operant conditioning)
autonomic nervous system
clinical psychologist
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
26. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time
Longitudinal Study
forebrain
Stereotypes
Generalized anxiety disorder
27. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain
population
gate control theory
Punishment
prenatal development
28. 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
opponent-process theory of emotion
Defense Mechanism
receptor site
Algorithm
29. Adrenaline; activates a sympathetic nervous system by making the heart beat faster - stopping digestion - enlarging pupils - sending sugar into the bloodstream - preparing a blood clot faster
ESP
Aggression
epinephrine
visual acuity
30. Response to the belief that the IV will have an effect - rather than the IV's actual effect - which can be a confounding variable
placebo effect
Fixation
parathormone
hindbrain
31. Commonly occurring behavior can reinforce a less frequent behavior
Residual type of schizophrenia
Premack principle
pineal gland
Cognitive theories
32. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
lens
case study
Repression
semantic memory
33. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
norepinephrine
Charles Darwin
Androgynous
storage
34. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned
Concrete operational stage
Primary Reinforcer
Accommodation
Longitudinal Study
35. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.
Gordon Allport
all-or-none principle
Family therapy
structuralism
36. 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
temporal lobes
John B Watson
gustation
Rooting reflex
37. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill
Unconditioned Response
zone of proximal development
brain
chunks
38. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste
glial cells
efferent neuron nerve
Phonology
Thanatology
39. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
Arousal
Albert Bandura
Judith Langlois
Normal curve
40. Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people - ideas - or objects that are based on a person's past experiences - shape his or her future behavior - and are evaluative in nature.
Standard score
strain studies
Attitudes
Conservation
41. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
Darley & Latane
Self-efficacy
Ageism
hypnosis
42. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives
median
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Motivation
Francis Galton
43. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
Social Loafing
Nonverbal Communication
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
44. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)
selection studies
peripheral nervous system
Jean Piaget
Electromagnetic Radiation
45. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
sociocultural psychology
Androgynous
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
efferent neuron nerve
46. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
Saturation
chunks
Unconditioned Stimulus
Gibson & Walk
47. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Psychophysics
Fixation
EEG (electroencephalogram)
nervous system
48. Noradrenaline; chemical which is excitatory - similar to adrenaline - and affects arousal and memory; raises blood pressure by causing blood vessels to become constricted - but also carried by bloodstream to the anterior pituitary which relaxes ACTH
synaptic cleft
Ideal Self
norepinephrine
sensory memory
49. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior
Antisocial personality disorder
Psychoactive Drug
shaping
postconventional level of moral development
50. 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
Delusions
episodic memory
association areas
statistics
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