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1. Constructed by Lewis Terman - originally used ratio IQ (MA/CA x 100); now based on deviation from mean
Secondary Punisher
normal distribution
Plateau phase
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
2. Developed one of the first projective tests - the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story - the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary
Conditioning
Hermann Rorschach
Ivan Pavlov
Mediation
3. 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
nature-nurture controversy
zone of proximal development
Need for achievement
Oral Stage
4. The principle that those characteristics and behaviors that help organisms adapt - be fit - and survive will be passed on to successive generations - because flexible - fit individuals have a greater chance of reproduction
Delusions
natural selection
Karen Horney
Demand characteristics
5. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
Fetus
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
hypothesis
Need for achievement
6. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
Social Loafing
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
explicit memory
fraternal twins
7. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
Self-perception Theory
Robert Zajonc
parathormone
decay
8. Experience of the difference threshold
just noticeable difference (JND)
anorexia nervosa
Panic Attack
Projection
9. The spread between the highest and the lowest scores in a distribution
Dream
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Phillip Zimbardo
range
10. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
Howard Gardner
Attachment
inhibitory neurotransmitter
neuropsychologist
11. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
unconscious
postconventional level of moral development
double-blind procedure
Martin Seligman
12. 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
Oedipus Complex
Phillip Zimbardo
Libido
standard deviation
13. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Self-efficacy
Variable-ratio Schedule
Interpretation
14. 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.
Aversive counterconditioning
Attitudes
hindbrain
neural plasticity
15. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
Harry Harlow
John B Watson
Abnormal Behavior
Overjustification effect
16. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep
Insomnia
Stimulus Generalization
Percentile score
Darley & Latane
17. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.
afferent neuron nerve
Stanley Schachter
Consciousness
demand characteristics
18. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
operational definition
measure of central tendency
Representative sample
Decentration
19. 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.
selection studies
Repression
Dark adaptation
Psychodynamically
20. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus
recency effect
dopamine
Conditioned Response
Arousal
21. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8
parallel processing
optic nerve
Psychosurgery
Metal retardation
22. The brain and spinal cord
central nervous system
Type B behavior
Collective Unconscious
Hermann Ebbinghaus
23. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
Daniel Goleman
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Prejudice
demand characteristics
24. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Blood-Brain Barrier
selection studies
Conservation
25. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream
Psychotherapy
synapse
endocrine glands
Case study
26. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
Overjustification effect
Debriefing
Object permanence
dominant genes
27. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships
Social Need
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Drive
Self-serving Bias
28. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
Variable-ratio Schedule
long-term potentiation
Superstitious Behavior
adaptation
29. 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
norepinephrine
autonomic nervous system
Child abuse
population
30. 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
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Substance Abuser
Self-actualization
nonconscious
31. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
Social Loafing
Group
explicit memory
Approach-avoidance conflict
32. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
Hue
Drug
motor projection areas
pons
33. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
Opponent-process theory
Edward Thorndike
Latency Stage
Means-ends analysis
34. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes
refractory period
fluid intelligence
scientific method
Opponent-process theory
35. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
John Garcia
Deviation IQ
mutation
Ego
36. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.
scientific method
interneurons
Aaron Beck
Psychoneuroimmunology
37. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'
polygenic inheritance
adrenal glands
Interpretation
schema
38. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
set point
short-term storage
Electromagnetic Radiation
Bulimia Nervosa
39. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle
neurogenesis
anorexia nervosa
Types
Anna Freud
40. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior
storage
Motivation
Experimental design
Spontaneous Recovery
41. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
normal distribution
Hue
Nonverbal Communication
self-fulfilling prophecy
42. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
functional MRI (fMRI)
sensory adaptation
brain
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
43. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
percentile score
Anal Stage
Dependence
Resistance
44. The evaluation of the significance of a situation or event as it relates to a person's well-being
Self-efficacy
Reasoning
Placenta
Appraisal
45. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
demand characteristics
mean
Phineas Gage
Type B behavior
46. Body sense of equilibrium and balance
triarchic theory of intelligence
ESP
Broca's area
vestibular sense
47. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
Libido
epinephrine
Hans Eysenck
Elaboration Likelihood Model
48. 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
postconventional level of moral development
Solomon Asch
Ekman & Friesen
timbre
49. 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
token economy
Critical Period
Self
polarization
50. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
Lucid Dream
Gender
Depressive disorders
Health psychology