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1. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time
chromosome
Longitudinal Study
Social Psychology
postconventional level of moral development
2. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
Fulfillment
Major depressive disorder
Biofeedback
Object permanence
3. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
Conservation
Libido
Case study
state-dependent learning
4. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Light
chromosome
Equity Theory
Collective Unconscious
5. 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 -
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Carl Rogers
Learned helplessness
Tolerance
6. The highness or lowness of a sound
pitch
axon
nature
human genomes
7. A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable behavior.
neural impulse
Self-actualization
Langer & Rodin
Aversive counterconditioning
8. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
developmental psychologist
Behavior therapy
inferential statistics
blind spot
9. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision
working memory
achievement test
cones
Dream analysis
10. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
mutation
aptitude test
Stimulus Generalization
nature
11. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
Superego
confounding variable
Heuristics
Unconditioned Stimulus
12. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
Fixation
Albert Bandura
Psychodynamically
endorphins
13. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
Fundamental Attribution Error
Social Cognition
Signal Detection Theory
Stereotypes
14. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes
Latent Content
interneurons
Extrinsic motivation
independent variable
15. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them
Nonverbal Communication
motivated forgetting
Jean Piaget
Coping
16. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
Norms
Excitement phase
implicit memory
Ernst Weber
17. The second level of the three organizational structures of the brain that receives signals from other parts of the brain or spinal cord and either relays the information to other parts of the brain or causes the body to act immediately; involved in m
midbrain
Intelligence
Morpheme
Paul Ekman
18. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross
Double-blind techniques
Bulimia Nervosa
Blood-Brain Barrier
frequency distribution
19. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
Linguistics
Projective Tests
Superstitious Behavior
20. 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
normal distribution
Phillip Zimbardo
hindbrain
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
21. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement
neurogenesis
experiment
Collective Unconscious
range
22. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
Gender Schema Theory
experimenter bias
Emotion
Self
23. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
Hermann Rorschach
Attributions
Experimental design
Fixed-ratio Schedule
24. Piaget's thrid stage of cognitive development (lasting from approximately age 6 or 7 to age 11 or 12) - during which the child develops the ability to understand constant factors in the environment - rules - and higher-order symbolic systems
Concrete operational stage
Imaginary Audience
endocrine system
Arousal
25. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech
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26. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands
action potential
Unconditioned Stimulus
Resilience
Color Blindness
27. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.
Drug
short-term storage
Personal Fable
Visual cortex
28. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
Tolerance
Prosocial Behavior
fovea
Martin Seligman
29. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
cognitive psychology
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Circadian Rhythms
30. Period of development from conception until birth
normal distribution
Dependence
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
prenatal development
31. A branch of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body functions; it calms the body after sympathetic stimulation
Fundamental Attribution Error
sensory adaptation
declarative memory
parasympathetic nervous system
32. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
human genomes
menarche
mean
Karl Wernicke
33. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data
Sensation
psychometrician
fraternal twins
endorphins
34. Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information - usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.
Electromagnetic Radiation
psychology
Dissociative amnesia
population
35. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Object permanence
explicit memory
descriptive statistics
36. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
strain studies
Ivan Pavlov
Placebo effect
Plateau phase
37. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.
Robert Sternberg
natural selection
Gordon Allport
Sociobiology
38. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment
Language
mutation
Type B behavior
William James
39. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories
thalamus
hippocampus
parallel processing
Genital Stage
40. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
memory
Cross-sectional study
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
41. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching
Imaginary Audience
Humanistic theory
excitatory neurotransmitter
strain studies
42. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness
Consciousness
Circadian Rhythms
Martin Seligman
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
43. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
axon
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
storage
median
44. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
Aristotle
Divergent thinking
peripheral nervous system
Linguistics
45. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
David Weschler
Stanley Schachter
nature
social psychologist
46. Creates a computerized image using x-rays passed through the brain
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Decentration
science
heritability
47. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
Abnormal Behavior
Group therapy
thyroxine
Thanatology
48. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body
Solomon Asch
blind spot
frequency distribution
neuron
49. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
interneurons
pseudoscience
ex post facto study
Zygote
50. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes
Convergent thinking
sympathetic nervous system
endocrine system
authoritative parenting
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