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1. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus
Conditioned Response
normal distribution
retrieval
William James
2. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Edward Bradford Titchener
Zajonc & Markus
3. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.
Group
Oedipus Complex
humanistic psychology
Size constancy
4. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age
Representative sample
retroactive interference
working memory
DNA
5. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
variable
experiment
Self-efficacy
Gestalt psychology
6. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
Regression
Rationalization
dendrites
Classical Conditioning
7. The sense of hearing
Stressor
instinct
audition
lens
8. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
Robert Yerkes
pancreas
Reaction Formation
Preconscious
9. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Need for achievement
Deindividuation
Social Interest
Latent Learning
10. Depth cues that are based on one eye
Wechsler intelligence tests
monocular cues
psychometrician
Learning
11. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
Working through
Robert Sternberg
behavioral genetics
Saccades
12. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all
declarative memory
Time-out
all-or-none principle
long-term memory
13. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
Deviation IQ
association areas
Denial
14. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes
preconscious
blind spot
Reactance
Latent Content
15. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening
anterograde amnesia
Lucid Dream
Vasocongestion
sympathetic nervous system
16. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.
psychometrician
association areas
Rational-emotive therapy
Abraham Maslow
17. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons
state-dependent learning
efferent neuron nerve
Resistance
Daniel Goleman
18. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
Delusions
hippocampus
Gender Schema Theory
parallel processing
19. 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
Egocentrism
chunks
psychometrician
norepinephrine
20. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
endocrine system
psychiatrist
Convergent thinking
Law of Effect
21. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.
Regression
Absolute threshold
Egocentrism
Family therapy
22. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)
bulimia nervosa
Morality
Self-actualization
Psychodynamically
23. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal
James-Lange theory of emotion
Edward Thorndike
Burnout
Preoperational stage
24. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions
nurture
Psychotic
Biofeedback
hormone
25. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -
Self-actualization
Holmes & Rahe
Self
hypnosis
26. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat
habituation
Imaginary Audience
John B Watson
Psychoanalysis
27. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
bottom-up processing
hindbrain
Herman von Helmholtz
Puberty
28. 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.
Adolescence
population
Lucid Dream
Antisocial personality disorder
29. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.
Anal Stage
Thanatology
Sucking reflex
Hyperopic
30. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory
engineering psychologist
Dissociative disorders
Stressor
menarche
31. Body sense of equilibrium and balance
nervous system
operational definition
set point
vestibular sense
32. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
pons
cochlea
recessive gene
Spontaneous Recovery
33. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain
Lawrence Kohlberg
Client-centered therapy
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
gate control theory
34. The increase in sensitivity to light that occurs when the illumination level changes from high to low - causing chemicals in the rods and cones to regenerate and return to their inactive state.
Optic chiasm
John Garcia
Dark adaptation
Plateau phase
35. Graph of a frequency distribution that shows the number of instances of obtained scores - usually with the data points connect by straight lines
Insomnia
Repression
frequency polygon
Conditioned Response
36. 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
Hobson & McCarley
Insight therapy
axon
Conflict
37. Occurs when recall is better for a distinctive item - even if it occurs in the middle of a list
school psychologist
Phoneme
nature-nurture controversy
Von Restorff effect
38. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse
difference threshold
Mary Ainsworth
neurotransmitters
adaptation
39. Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people - ideas - or objects that are based on a person's past experiences - shape his or her future behavior - and are evaluative in nature.
Reasoning
Attitudes
Dream analysis
James-Lange theory of emotion
40. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Type B behavior
short-term storage
Langer & Rodin
41. Process by which a conditioned response becomes associated with a stimulus that is similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus
experimenter bias
Edward Bradford Titchener
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Stimulus Generalization
42. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically
sociocultural psychology
nerve
neuropsychologist
Preoperational stage
43. Neurotransmitter that affects sleep - arousal - mood - appetite; lack of it is linked with depression
serotonin
Adolescence
thalamus
Double bind
44. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Demand characteristics
Withdrawal Symptoms
hypothalamus
45. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.
Consciousness
engineering psychologist
Denial
Aaron Beck
46. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
procedural memory
correlational research
Group Polarization
Discrimination
47. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life
Lawrence Kohlberg
association areas
amygdala
Lewis Terman
48. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
acetylcholine (ACh)
confounding variable
Factor analysis
Convergent thinking
49. The evaluation of the significance of a situation or event as it relates to a person's well-being
Appraisal
Raymond Cattell
Judith Langlois
Aristotle
50. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
dualism
Problem Solving
timbre
Moro reflex