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1. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Equity Theory
Punishment
Stanley Schachter
Self-actualization
2. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
epinephrine
long-term memory
Robert Rosenthal
instinct
3. A person's experiences in the environment
nurture
flashbulb memories
random sample
all-or-none principle
4. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed
genotype
Unconditioned Response
convolutions
split brain patients
5. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Hue
Noam Chomsky
psychology
6. 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.
school psychologist
Psychophysics
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
John Garcia
7. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
Divergent thinking
Embryo
Behavior therapy
Henry Murray
8. 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
Social Need
Moro reflex
Lucid Dream
normal distribution
9. Intelligence; found that specific mental talents were highly correlated - concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled 'g' (general ability)
clinical psychologist
strain studies
relative refractory period
Charles Spearman
10. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions
Elizabeth Loftus
Stanley Milgram
identical twins
behaviorism
11. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
dualism
Fixation
Blood-Brain Barrier
Types
12. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.
Projection
Leon Festinger
Panic Attack
Systematic desensitization
13. Small area of retina where image is focused
fovea
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
genotype
14. The expression of genes
Social Need
descriptive statistics
nurture
phenotype
15. Prejudice against the elderly and the resulting discrimination against them
Positive Reinforcement
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Ageism
Cross-sectional study
16. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all
all-or-none principle
Drive
empiricism
Rape
17. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening
Self-efficacy
Cross-sectional study
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Lucid Dream
18. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Plateau phase
Mary Ainsworth
Symptom substitution
19. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)
Latency Stage
Libido
William Sheldon
Phallic Stage
20. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative
family studies
prenatal development
Hyperopic
Sensorimotor stage
21. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
behavior
Percentile score
psychoanalytic
prenatal development
22. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
strain studies
René Descartes
Variable-interval Schedule
David Rosenhan
23. 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
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Homeostasis
positive psychology
response bias
24. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
Expectancy Theories
retina
Alfred Adler
declarative memory
25. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond
Anna O.
Moro reflex
demand characteristics
short-term storage
26. 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.
Self
working memory
Theory of mind
positive psychology
27. 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
Fundamental Attribution Error
Conservation
Receptive fields
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
28. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
Intelligence
Preconscious
Reinforcer
Health psychology
29. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
genetic mapping
cohort effect
Babinski reflex
placebo
30. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
Variable-ratio Schedule
psychiatrist
experimental group
Abnormal Behavior
31. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
Mainstreaming
Demand characteristics
Photoreceptors
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
32. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
lens
Attachment
Law of Effect
Superstitious Behavior
33. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
Zajonc & Markus
memory span
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Unconscious
34. Neurotransmitter that inhibits firing of neurons; linked with Huntington's disease
Need
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Emotion
Ekman & Friesen
35. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
Rationalization
Normal curve
Reliability
refractory period
36. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
Fixation
Trichromats
amnesia
frequency polygon
37. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
Equity Theory
set point
pupil
Orgasm phase
38. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
David Rosenhan
antagonist
theory
synaptic vesicles
39. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
Psychosurgery
Social Facilitation
demand characteristics
Observational Learning Theory
40. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards
Approach-avoidance conflict
token economy
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Gender stereotype
41. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
Hyperopic
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Psychosurgery
B.F. Skinner
42. Sense of smell
selection studies
epinephrine
olfaction
Regression
43. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal
Lev Vygotsky
Equity Theory
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Double bind
44. Deals with the extent to which heredity and the environment each influence behavior
Psychoactive Drug
nature-nurture controversy
Higher-order Conditioning
hypnosis
45. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
human genomes
forebrain
Abraham Maslow
brain
46. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.
identical twins
introspection
Stimulus Discrimination
Social Categorization
47. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
retrieval
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
temporal lobes
Depressive disorders
48. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
Abnormal psychology
sensory adaptation
Standard score
Howard Gardner
49. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
William James
Observational Learning Theory
James-Lange theory of emotion
50. A state of consciousness that occurs during sleep - usually accompanied by vivid visual - tactile - or auditory imagery.
encoding
Dark adaptation
Dream
percentile score
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