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1. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter
Masters & Johnson
antagonist
Factor analysis
crystallized intelligence
2. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
audition
Elizabeth Loftus
Stress
Psychophysics
3. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
Actor-observer Effect
Resistance
Excitement phase
all-or-none principle
4. Perspective developed by freud - which assumes that psychological problems are the result of anxiety resulting from unresolved conflicts and forces of which a person might be unaware
bulimia nervosa
psychoanalytic
Attitudes
preconscious
5. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
Myopic
temporal lobes
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
fraternal twins
6. Sets of strategies - rather than strict rules - that act as guidelines for discovery-oriented problem solving.
maintenance rehearsal
Heuristics
Mary Cover-Jones
Type B behavior
7. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
industrial/organizational psychologist
Dissociative identity disorder
frequency distribution
Gender Schema Theory
8. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
Hans Eysenck
Extinction (classical conditioning)
motivated forgetting
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
9. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.
Genital Stage
Social Need
Robert Rosenthal
Discrimination
10. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ on an important dimension
rehearsal
implicit memory
Dissociative disorders
Cross-sectional study
11. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards
Insomnia
token economy
recessive gene
Subgoal analysis
12. Sense of smell
Sensation
olfaction
Discrimination
top-down processing
13. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.
Law of Effect
Hue
Learned helplessness
Size constancy
14. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe
ethnocentrism
Francis Galton
cochlea
structuralism
15. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.
Depressive disorders
aphasia
Trichromats
Konrad Lorenz
16. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
Morpheme
Formal operational stage
Aaron Beck
William Dement
17. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision
Aggression
cones
Langer & Rodin
Wechsler intelligence tests
18. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems
counseling psychologist
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Double bind
Placebo effect
19. 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
graded potential
Harry Harlow
refractory period
endocrine glands
20. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed
Rational-emotive therapy
split brain patients
Oral Stage
Adolescence
21. Synaptic gap or synaptic space; tiny gap between the terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron (almost never touch); location of the transfer of an impulse from one neuron to the next
synaptic cleft
correlational research
Charles Spearman
Secondary Sex Characteristics
22. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.
Rational-emotive therapy
population
prenatal development
bulimia nervosa
23. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
William Dement
Subgoal analysis
Theory of mind
crystallized intelligence
24. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts
parietal lobes
Insomnia
episodic memory
chunks
25. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
David Weschler
dualism
brain
Hobson & McCarley
26. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
Optic chiasm
Hyperopic
sympathetic nervous system
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
27. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
glial cells
Light
Latent Learning
28. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.
Collective Unconscious
Social Psychology
Reliability
Fulfillment
29. A therapy that is based on the application of learning principles to human behavior and that focuses on changing overt behaviors rather than on understanding subjective feelings - unconscious processes - or motivations; also known as behavior modific
Mainstreaming
Behavior therapy
Psychosurgery
psychometrician
30. Reproductive glands-male - testes; female - ovaries
twin studies
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
gonads
interneurons
31. Creates a computerized image using x-rays passed through the brain
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Reflex
Embryo
variable
32. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement
Sublimation
Learned helplessness
sociocultural psychology
experiment
33. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
Conditioned Response
Carl Jung
Social Need
motor projection areas
34. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
population
Standard score
school psychologist
social psychologist
35. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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36. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
Body Language
Tolman
frontal lobes
menarche
37. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.
Phallic Stage
Mary Cover-Jones
Phobic disorders
Photoreceptors
38. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable
correlational research
Sublimation
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
confounding variable
39. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.
endocrine glands
Mary Cover-Jones
Concept
Daniel Goleman
40. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
control group
Means-ends analysis
memory span
Vasocongestion
41. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
heritability
Anna Freud
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
42. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
sympathetic nervous system
neurogenesis
Motive
nerve
43. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.
explicit memory
forebrain
Sensation
Psychotic
44. 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
Schema
hippocampus
mode
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
45. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
hindbrain
Karen Horney
Personal Fable
Schizophrenic disorders
46. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
Teratogen
Norms
Robert Zajonc
frequency distribution
47. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits
Primary Punisher
preconventional level of moral development
Plateau phase
Harry Stack Sullivan
48. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
Logic
Intelligence
Projective Tests
Bonding
49. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
long-term potentiation
placebo effect
Noam Chomsky
ex post facto study
50. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.
Self-efficacy
Socrates
Solomon Asch
Prevalence
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