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1. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
chromosome
state-dependent learning
Intelligence
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
2. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.
Panic Attack
Orgasm phase
Mediation
confounding variable
3. Intelligence and learning - self-fulfilling prophecy; Study Basics: Researchers misled teachers into believing that certain students had higher IQs. Teachers changed own behaviors and effectively raised the IQ of the randomly chosen students
Defense Mechanism
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Bipolar disorder
Rosenthal & Jacobson
4. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
Anna O.
myelin sheath
Group Polarization
Bonding
5. Adrenaline; activates a sympathetic nervous system by making the heart beat faster - stopping digestion - enlarging pupils - sending sugar into the bloodstream - preparing a blood clot faster
epinephrine
gene
interneurons
Trichromats
6. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
Clark Hull
Overjustification effect
confounding variable
Syntax
7. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
René Descartes
midbrain
procedural memory
experiment
8. Fixed - overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.
Prejudice
Stereotypes
ethnocentrism
Deviation IQ
9. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.
Social Influence
Self-efficacy
Dichromats
Attachment
10. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
peripheral nervous system
variable
Denial
control group
11. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
Dichromats
temporal lobes
Latent Content
primacy effect
12. In psychoanalysis - an unwillingness to cooperate - which a patient signals by showing a reluctance to provide the therapist with information or to help the therapist understand or interpret a situation.
Shaping
Appraisal
Resistance
experimental group
13. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Reasoning
Attitudes
afferent neuron nerve
14. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
hindbrain
glial cells
Placebo effect
15. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
René Descartes
Panic Attack
Approach-approach conflict
16. The tendency of people in a group to seek concurrence with one another when reaching a decision - rather than effectively evaluating options.
Classical Conditioning
Groupthink
Sex
hypothalamus
17. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
Generalized anxiety disorder
Anxiety
Robert Yerkes
rods
18. 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
Sucking reflex
introspection
Socrates
Elaboration Likelihood Model
19. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
pseudoscience
sensory memory
independent variable
Denial
20. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.
significant difference
observer bias
Social Categorization
autonomic nervous system
21. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Projection
Double bind
random sample
Debriefing
22. The inability to perceive different hues.
Color Blindness
cohort effect
psychologist
Fixed-ratio Schedule
23. A test designed to predict a person's future performance
Critical Period
pancreas
aptitude test
consolidation
24. Learning; systematic desensitization
motivated forgetting
Charles Darwin
Wolpe
Drive
25. The process by which individuals lose their self-awareness and distinctive personality in the context of a group - which may lead them to engage in antinormative behavior.
Transference
Placebo effect
Deindividuation
Latent Content
26. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected
Higher-order Conditioning
independent variable
recessive gene
Normal curve
27. The expression of genes
counseling psychologist
percentile score
Group Polarization
phenotype
28. 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
Collective Unconscious
Stimulus Generalization
Dependence
Orgasm phase
29. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
binocular cues
Aversive counterconditioning
Electromagnetic Radiation
population
30. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.
temporal lobes
Problem Solving
Stress
Groupthink
31. 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
neural impulse
Dream analysis
Cross-sectional study
Hermann Rorschach
32. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment
Learning
William Dement
Conformity
Social Influence
33. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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34. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.
Punishment
evolutionary psychology
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Semantics
35. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
developmental psychologist
elaborative rehearsal
behavioral genetics
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
36. The highness or lowness of a sound
retroactive interference
Bonding
Projective Tests
pitch
37. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes
Case study
Gordon Allport
Gestalt psychology
Latent Content
38. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.
motor projection areas
Adolescence
Concept
Reinforcer
39. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
Negative Reinforcement
William James
Resistance
Deviation IQ
40. 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
Rosenhan
Mary Ainsworth
Extinction (operant conditioning)
norepinephrine
41. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
Myopic
strain studies
preconscious
Hyperopic
42. 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.
population
Trichromatic theory
glial cells
Excitement phase
43. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Rape
significant difference
44. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
sensory memory
hypothalamus
implicit memory
Phoneme
45. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat
Psychodynamically
Type B behavior
Primary Punisher
Anorexia Nervosa
46. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
relative refractory period
Generalized anxiety disorder
Fixation
Temperament
47. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned
Primary Reinforcer
primacy effect
mean
Oedipus Complex
48. In Roger's theory of personality - the perception an individual has of himself or herself and of his or her relationships to other people and to various aspects of life.
Carol Gilligan
educational psychologist
Adolescence
Self
49. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
Intelligence
semantic memory
Phineas Gage
Bonding
50. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
amnesia
Reflex
population
insulin