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1. Motivation; believed that gastric activity as in empty stomach - was the sole basis for hunger; did research that inserted balloons in stomachs
Punishment
Walter B. Cannon
naturalistic observation
Brainstorming
2. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
sympathetic nervous system
Bonding
Unconditioned Response
3. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.
Cognitive theories
John Locke
Punishment
Fixed-ratio Schedule
4. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information
inferential statistics
memory
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
menarche
5. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent
imagery
Charles Spearman
Edward Bradford Titchener
case study
6. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones
brain
thyroxine
retina
Counterconditioning
7. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma
Depressive disorders
Impression Formation
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Extinction (operant conditioning)
8. Sense of taste
Orgasm phase
gustation
Self-efficacy
state-dependent learning
9. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
psychometrician
split brain patients
Aversive counterconditioning
pons
10. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources
Coping
social psychologist
Backward search
twin studies
11. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems
counseling psychologist
Social Facilitation
mean
neural impulse
12. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
Attitudes
frontal lobes
Stereotypes
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
13. Shift in electrical charge in a tiny area of the neuron (temporary); transmits a long cell membranes leaving neuron and polarized state; needs higher than normal threshold of excitation to fire
psychology
Judith Langlois
graded potential
developmental psychologist
14. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Representative sample
olfaction
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
excitatory neurotransmitter
15. 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)
experimenter bias
neural impulse
Body Language
Consciousness
16. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
endocrine glands
empiricism
Observational Learning Theory
Hans Eysenck
17. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
consolidation
aptitude test
Conditioned Response
Self-perception Theory
18. Threadlike structure within the nucleus of cells that contain genes
Factor analysis
chromosome
Drug
neuron
19. Memory; studied memorization of meaningless words
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Saccades
Signal Detection Theory
Factor analysis
20. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
Morality
recency effect
pineal gland
Psychotic
21. Electrically charged particles found both inside and outside a neuron; negative ions are found inside the cell membrane in a polarized neuron
heritability
ions
structuralism
long-term memory
22. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
Sex
range
Martin Seligman
long-term memory
23. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving
Self-actualization
control group
twin studies
binocular cues
24. A test score that has not been transformed or converted in any way
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Trait
sensory adaptation
Raw score
25. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.
Assessment
Ideal Self
Concordance rate
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
26. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
Social Loafing
Sensation
Learned helplessness
imagery
27. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.
Temperament
Reasoning
Double-blind techniques
Opponent-process theory
28. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all
efferent neuron nerve
all-or-none principle
unconscious
Alfred Adler
29. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.
Group therapy
Validity
Symptom substitution
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
30. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
brainstem
hypnosis
Placenta
Attributions
31. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
Robert Zajonc
Need for achievement
Agoraphobia
Wilhelm Wundt
32. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
Abraham Maslow
Backward search
photoreceptors
Withdrawal Symptoms
33. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Motive
Depressive disorders
cornea
sensory adaptation
34. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits
Harry Stack Sullivan
Zygote
Subgoal analysis
Temperament
35. The situation that occurs when the drug becomes part of the body's functioning and produces withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued
Attachment
sympathetic nervous system
Solomon Asch
Dependence
36. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve
Light
Normal curve
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Gender Identity
37. The prenatal organism from the 5th through the 49th day after conception
school psychologist
Dissociative identity disorder
Cross-sectional study
Embryo
38. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
bottom-up processing
Family therapy
Ego
flashbulb memories
39. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech
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40. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'
Erik Erikson
sensory memory
amygdala
Sublimation
41. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.
Antisocial personality disorder
photoreceptors
Norms
Oedipus Complex
42. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)
Robert Sternberg
Health psychology
split brain patients
Groupthink
43. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
gonads
Myopic
psychoanalytic
Law of Effect
44. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ on an important dimension
explicit memory
Cross-sectional study
retroactive interference
zone of proximal development
45. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
Noam Chomsky
frequency distribution
survey research
Theory of mind
46. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream
independent variable
behavioral genetics
Manifest Content
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
47. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions
Martin Seligman
emotional intelligence
Bipolar disorder
Personal Fable
48. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Monochromats
Little Albert
Homeostasis
cornea
49. In Piaget's view - a specific mental structure; an organized way of interacting with the environment and experiencing it- a generalization a child makes based on comparable occurences of various actins - usally physical - motor actions
Defense Mechanism
Schema
Skinner Box
parallel processing
50. Small area of retina where image is focused
Fulfillment
Judith Langlois
Learning
fovea