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1. Occurs when recall is better for a distinctive item - even if it occurs in the middle of a list
working memory
sensory memory
Von Restorff effect
Fixed-ratio Schedule
2. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions
Token economy
psychologist
emotional intelligence
Babinski reflex
3. Period of development from conception until birth
prenatal development
Carl Jung
Bulimia Nervosa
Actor-observer Effect
4. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism
Primary Punisher
Ex Post Facto Design
menopause
Psychosurgery
5. Visual theory - proposed by Herring - that color is coded by stimulation of three types of paired receptors; each pair of receptors is assumed to operate in an antagonist way so that stimulation by a given wavelength produces excitation (increased fi
Opponent-process theory
cochlea
Semantics
authoritarian parenting
6. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals
serotonin
variable
agonist
top-down processing
7. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.
Id
timbre
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Psychoanalysis
8. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
Fetus
declarative memory
Heuristics
Overjustification effect
9. Netlike system of neurons that weaves through limbic system and plays an important role in attention - arousal - and alert functions; arouses and alerts higher parts of the brain; anesthetics work by temporary shutting off RF system
sociocultural psychology
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
empiricism
Plateau phase
10. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
rods
Interpretation
Optic chiasm
Descriptive Studies
11. Maintenance of a constant state of inner stability or balance
Expectancy Theories
Nonverbal Communication
Homeostasis
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
12. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.
Dream analysis
Normal curve
bottom-up processing
Type B behavior
13. 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
Leon Festinger
Decision making
Concrete operational stage
neurogenesis
14. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits
Dream analysis
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
psychometrician
Harry Stack Sullivan
15. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
Arousal
dopamine
Repression
central nervous system
16. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
Primary Reinforcer
nervous system
Phallic Stage
Self-efficacy
17. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
heritability
Monochromats
endocrine glands
Motivation
18. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
rehearsal
Anorexia Nervosa
Psychotic
neural impulse
19. Perspective that seeks to explain and predict behaviors by analyzing how the human brain developed over time - how it functions - and how input from the environment affects human behaviors
brainstem
evolutionary psychology
Social Influence
Defense Mechanism
20. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)
Anxiety
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
neural impulse
moral development
21. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.
Symptom substitution
Debriefing
Psychotherapy
authoritative parenting
22. 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
audition
Solomon Asch
Trichromats
23. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
Erik Erikson
spinal cord
Personality disorders
Monochromats
24. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups
confounding variable
hypothesis
Teratogen
Concordance rate
25. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
Bystander Effect
sensory adaptation
Stress
Phobic disorders
26. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Social Cognition
Conflict
Manifest Content
27. 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
Regression
Trait
Fundamental Attribution Error
Orgasm phase
28. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Placenta
Means-ends analysis
hypnosis
Morality
29. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
Spontaneous Recovery
consolidation
state-dependent learning
(cerebral) cortex
30. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
Burnout
semantic memory
David Weschler
Schema
31. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.
Raymond Cattell
forebrain
Unconscious
axon
32. The brain and spinal cord
Intrinsic motivation
Psychophysics
central nervous system
Sensation
33. In Adler's theory - a feeling of openness with all humanity.
Social Interest
John B Watson
Karen Horney
Darley & Latane
34. The situation that occurs when the drug becomes part of the body's functioning and produces withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued
Dependence
flashbulb memories
Variable-interval Schedule
Oral Stage
35. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
rods
observer bias
sample
myelin sheath
36. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
mode
midbrain
Myopic
Skinner Box
37. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
Brainstorming
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Body Language
Masters & Johnson
38. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
mutation
Coping
Sociobiology
Regression
39. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
Consciousness
Depressive disorders
Formal operational stage
Personality
40. A fertilized egg
psychometrician
Zygote
Anna Freud
Norms
41. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
Henry Murray
Personality
polygenic inheritance
frontal lobes
42. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
Socrates
descriptive statistics
implicit memory
John Locke
43. In emerging Theo psychology that focuses on positive experiences; includes subjective well-being - self-determination - the relationship between positive emotions and physical health - and the factors that allow individuals - communities - and societ
Phallic Stage
Gender
positive psychology
median
44. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
Hermann Rorschach
Light
Fulfillment
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
45. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -
moral development
Self-actualization
Aaron Beck
Phineas Gage
46. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Representative sample
Reliability
difference threshold
Actor-observer Effect
47. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results
Subliminal perception
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Trait
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
48. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
pupil
Little Albert
Rape
Grammar
49. The expression of genes
nature-nurture controversy
Social Influence
Expectancy Theories
phenotype
50. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
Secondary Punisher
Trichromatic theory
Zajonc & Markus
Hermann Ebbinghaus