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1. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
Temperament
Convergent thinking
Depressive disorders
Reasoning
2. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
Consciousness
Social Loafing
Aversive counterconditioning
observer bias
3. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
Backward search
Stimulus Generalization
Gender
Unconditioned Response
4. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series
Body Language
Projective Tests
recency effect
psychobiology
5. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
amnesia
psychoanalyst
counseling psychologist
replication
6. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic value for an organism but that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer
refractory period
Secondary Reinforcer
identical twins
Saccades
7. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.
Displacement
Social phobia
Reasoning
Light
8. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory
levels-of-processing approach
episodic memory
Psychotherapy
Descriptive Studies
9. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
Edward Thorndike
Saccades
glial cells
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
10. 'Wernicke's area'; discovered area of left temporal lobe that involved language understanding: person damaged in this area uses correct words but they do not make sense
Karl Wernicke
memory
Androgynous
Health psychology
11. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
Model
Convergent thinking
Demand characteristics
counseling psychologist
12. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
Rationalization
Self-actualization
Fixed-ratio Schedule
episodic memory
13. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
Critical Period
Libido
Optic chiasm
Edward Thorndike
14. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints
neurogenesis
Wechsler intelligence tests
set point
Decentration
15. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.
Social Loafing
Conformity
Denial
nonconscious
16. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness
Egocentrism
Bystander Effect
cohort effect
Fixed-interval Schedule
17. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
achievement test
self-fulfilling prophecy
efferent neuron nerve
pituitary gland
18. Transparent covering of the eye
Interpersonal Attraction
René Descartes
Egocentrism
cornea
19. 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.
Visual cortex
preconscious
Stimulus Discrimination
replication
20. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.
strain studies
Bipolar disorder
Dream
preconventional level of moral development
21. 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
Personality disorders
Family therapy
naturalistic observation
22. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Self-perception Theory
Family therapy
kinesthesis
23. A test designed to predict a person's future performance
endocrine glands
aptitude test
refractory period
Opponent-process theory
24. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.
Oral Stage
behaviorism
Ex Post Facto Design
Phoneme
25. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
pons
sociocultural psychology
Androgynous
Alzheimer's Disease
26. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
menarche
evolutionary psychology
Conditioning
Collective Unconscious
27. 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
Sensorimotor stage
Brainstorming
midbrain
Aaron Beck
28. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
genetics
neurotransmitters
visual acuity
Resilience
29. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.
Subliminal perception
Linguistics
Alfred Adler
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
30. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
excitatory neurotransmitter
proactive interference
Genital Stage
autonomic nervous system
31. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Von Restorff effect
Social Need
midbrain
Percentile score
32. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
consolidation
measure of central tendency
Aaron Beck
Experimental design
33. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
Approach-avoidance conflict
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Tolerance
nature
34. A trait or inherited characteristic that has increased in a population because it solved a problem of survival or reproduction
axon
preconscious
adaptation
Grammar
35. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
Obedience
Variable-interval Schedule
dualism
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
36. Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation - they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.
pituitary gland
fovea
glial cells
John Garcia
37. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume
interference
Conservation
opponent-process theory of emotion
Motivation
38. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
endocrine glands
procedural memory
Type B behavior
binocular cues
39. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
mode
functionalism
neurogenesis
Social Facilitation
40. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.
Problem Solving
neural impulse
Deviation IQ
Dementia
41. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.
Prototype
nurture
action potential
Carol Gilligan
42. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp
Primary Reinforcer
thalamus
Dream
EEG (electroencephalogram)
43. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
natural selection
token economy
flashbulb memories
Prejudice
44. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle
behavior
Anna Freud
Subgoal analysis
Id
45. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve
Attachment
Normal curve
Anna O.
Punishment
46. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
Decision making
endocrine glands
Motive
schema
47. Sense of smell
pons
range
olfaction
Group
48. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
psychometrician
Resistance
recessive gene
49. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
Naturalistic observation
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Electromagnetic Radiation
Convergent thinking
50. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
Stressor
myelin sheath
Withdrawal Symptoms
Unconditioned Stimulus
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