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1. Memory; studied memorization of meaningless words
dualism
Egocentrism
Hermann Ebbinghaus
EEG (electroencephalogram)
2. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.
Interpretation
Plateau phase
Fixation
science
3. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
Agoraphobia
iris
anterograde amnesia
retrieval
4. 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)
neural impulse
retroactive interference
Signal Detection Theory
token economy
5. According to Piaget - the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences
Accommodation
Delusions
Robert Rosenthal
Self
6. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
educational psychologist
cognitive psychology
Time-out
Regression
7. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
Archetypes
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Aversive counterconditioning
Dark adaptation
8. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
response bias
Social Influence
Specific phobia
crystallized intelligence
9. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
Unconditioned Response
Ideal Self
motive
Negative Reinforcement
10. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
descriptive statistics
transfer appropriate processing
ethnocentrism
emotional intelligence
11. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Martin Seligman
standard deviation
Rosenhan
Langer & Rodin
12. Depth cues that are based on one eye
monocular cues
retrograde amnesia
social psychologist
representative sample
13. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization
rods
habituation
retroactive interference
polarization
14. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates
memory span
psychoanalyst
Skinner Box
Clark Hull
15. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
elaborative rehearsal
Body Language
counseling psychologist
Fulfillment
16. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
Stimulus Discrimination
Shaping
decay
Leon Festinger
17. A fertilized egg
Zygote
midbrain
procedural memory
Standardization
18. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions
somatic nervous system
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
experimental group
19. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
Preoperational stage
recessive gene
Punishment
Secondary Punisher
20. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
dependent variable
schema
adaptation
Drug
21. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time
Hermann Ebbinghaus
photoreceptors
Longitudinal Study
Gender Identity
22. 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.
storage
Self
Imaginary Audience
Broca's area
23. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
Norms
placebo effect
Client-centered therapy
Standardization
24. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
sports psychologist
Primary Punisher
Counterconditioning
Fixed-ratio Schedule
25. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event
ex post facto study
retrograde amnesia
emotional intelligence
Burnout
26. 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.
spinal cord
Mediation
Concrete operational stage
Overjustification effect
27. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Interpretation
Light
Secondary Sex Characteristics
28. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
Monochromats
Attachment
preconscious
Ideal Self
29. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable
sensory neurons
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
cerebellum
operational definition
30. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
association areas
Abnormal psychology
endorphins
rods
31. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior
Conformity
Defense Mechanism
median
Motivation
32. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Attributions
Primary Reinforcer
Superstitious Behavior
33. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
Decision making
hindbrain
Psychoneuroimmunology
Mary Cover-Jones
34. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
resting potential
Electromagnetic Radiation
Grammar
Experimental design
35. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
psychiatrist
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Myopic
peripheral nervous system
36. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
Moro reflex
amnesia
William James
Conservation
37. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Kurt Lewin
Reinforcer
Monochromats
episodic memory
38. Theorist who both aided in the development of the trichromatic theory of color perception and Place theory of pitch perception.
Herman von Helmholtz
encoding
Conditioned Response
Elizabeth Loftus
39. Primary area for processing visual information
Wechsler intelligence tests
Morpheme
occipital lobes
Anxiety
40. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad
Morality
myelin sheath
proactive interference
Placenta
41. An observable action
Wechsler intelligence tests
Arousal
behavior
nurture
42. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
Group therapy
Circadian Rhythms
Tolerance
Heuristics
43. 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.
Walter B. Cannon
Stressor
Signal Detection Theory
descriptive statistics
44. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response
Skinner Box
Problem Solving
forebrain
Actor-observer Effect
45. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
frequency
cerebellum
Subgoal analysis
pitch
46. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
Socrates
educational psychologist
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Schizophrenic disorders
47. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
Dissociative identity disorder
Variable-ratio Schedule
Latent Learning
William Sheldon
48. An insight therapy - developed be Carl Rogers - that seeks to help people evaluate the world and themselves from their own perspective by providing them with a nondirective environment and unconditional positive regard; also known as person-centered
emotional intelligence
Oedipus Complex
Solomon Asch
Client-centered therapy
49. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
Withdrawal Symptoms
lens
Self-fulfilling prophecy
cerebellum
50. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
phenotype
Representative sample
Nonverbal Communication
antagonist