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1. Intelligence; found that specific mental talents were highly correlated - concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled 'g' (general ability)
Standard score
Placenta
Charles Spearman
Spontaneous Recovery
2. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior
hindbrain
pancreas
twin studies
Aversive counterconditioning
3. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
Grasping reflex
Archetypes
Variable-interval Schedule
Egocentrism
4. Memory for specific information
recency effect
Altruism
cohort effect
declarative memory
5. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
Semantics
Burnout
Grammar
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
6. 17th century English philosopher. Wrote that the mind was a 'blank slate' or 'tabula rasa'; that is - people are born without innate ideas. We are completely shaped by our environment .
John Locke
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Formal operational stage
hindbrain
7. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
frequency distribution
Conditioned Stimulus
confounding variable
storage
8. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
dualism
Token economy
correlation coefficient
neuropsychologist
9. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites
Self-serving Bias
synapse
zone of proximal development
Assimilation
10. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.
Trichromatic theory
polarization
Bonding
cerebellum
11. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment
Actor-observer Effect
Edward Thorndike
Moro reflex
rods
12. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
René Descartes
moral development
Gestalt psychology
Spontaneous Recovery
13. Carries impulses from the eye to the brain
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
optic nerve
Extrinsic motivation
14. Does research on how people function best with machines
engineering psychologist
frequency
Child abuse
Attributions
15. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.
Ageism
developmental psychologist
Reaction Formation
Mediation
16. Prejudice against the elderly and the resulting discrimination against them
Ageism
Actor-observer Effect
Fulfillment
Karen Horney
17. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state
Wernicke's area
cohort effect
Resolution Phase
implicit memory
18. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
Nonverbal Communication
achievement test
resting potential
Teratogen
19. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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20. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
DNA
Assessment
Grammar
Shaping
21. Theory that holds that an observer's perception depends not only on the intensity of a stimulus but also on the observer's motivation - the criteria he or she sets for determining that a signal is present - and on the background noise.
Working through
Variable-ratio Schedule
psychologist
Signal Detection Theory
22. Released by adrenal glands; triggered by norepinephrine to prolong the response to stress (used in the sympathetic nervous system)
decay
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Insomnia
Henry Murray
23. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.
Discrimination
schema
introspection
Aversive counterconditioning
24. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons
polygenic inheritance
efferent neuron nerve
motor neurons
Phallic Stage
25. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
Von Restorff effect
Withdrawal Symptoms
self-fulfilling prophecy
control group
26. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.
receptor site
Stanley Milgram
Transference
motive
27. A trait or inherited characteristic that has increased in a population because it solved a problem of survival or reproduction
Subliminal perception
iris
adaptation
neuropsychologist
28. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
corpus callosum
Self-efficacy
Stressor
29. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
Biofeedback
Hermann Rorschach
motor projection areas
Learned helplessness
30. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
aversive conditioning
Social phobia
Accommodation
Charles Darwin
31. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
Darley & Latane
Psychotic
difference threshold
encoding
32. Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.
dependent variable
pancreas
Learned helplessness
Group Polarization
33. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
Libido
Panic Attack
Hobson & McCarley
midbrain
34. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
Socrates
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
variability
Wechsler intelligence tests
35. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.
Robert Sternberg
photoreceptors
Prosocial Behavior
psychobiology
36. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.
iris
selective attention
Cognitive Dissonance
Phobic disorders
37. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
Regression
Solomon Asch
Critical Period
Metal retardation
38. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
Abnormal Behavior
primacy effect
Fixed-interval Schedule
Insight therapy
39. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood
Stimulant
aphasia
afferent neuron nerve
Delusions
40. 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
synaptic cleft
Biofeedback
Prosocial Behavior
encoding specificity principle
41. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area
Orgasm phase
neural impulse
Interpersonal Attraction
imagery
42. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
efferent neuron nerve
Secondary Sex Characteristics
glial cells
Anxiety
43. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
retroactive interference
conventional level of moral development
maintenance rehearsal
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
44. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
Conservation
Impression Formation
mutation
somatic nervous system
45. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
Myopic
Ekman & Friesen
Rational-emotive therapy
ions
46. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
Rationalization
parathormone
Gender Identity
Attributions
47. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
neuropsychologist
Trichromats
storage
Convergent thinking
48. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
Phoneme
Harry Stack Sullivan
introspection
demand characteristics
49. The expression of genes
pitch
excitatory neurotransmitter
humanistic psychology
phenotype
50. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
Standardization
Preoperational stage
Brightness
William Dement