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1. 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
Teratogen
Variable-interval Schedule
Robert Yerkes
norepinephrine
2. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids
neurogenesis
Edward Bradford Titchener
parathormone
Phineas Gage
3. Depth cues that are based on one eye
Demand characteristics
Actor-observer Effect
bulimia nervosa
monocular cues
4. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Percentile score
dopamine
excitatory neurotransmitter
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
5. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Fetus
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Androgynous
Consciousness
6. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.
Grammar
somatic nervous system
educational psychologist
Imaginary Audience
7. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher
Lawrence Kohlberg
flashbulb memories
significant difference
Rape
8. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
crystallized intelligence
achievement test
Psychoneuroimmunology
Brainstorming
9. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
cornea
Kenneth Clark
Arousal
pons
10. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Time-out
ethics
Consciousness
11. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information
triarchic theory of intelligence
primacy effect
achievement test
proactive interference
12. 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
developmental psychologist
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Gordon Allport
Self-actualization
13. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic
excitatory neurotransmitter
Psychosurgery
axon terminal
Formal operational stage
14. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary
Preoperational stage
association areas
Bonding
Gordon Allport
15. Deals with the extent to which heredity and the environment each influence behavior
nature-nurture controversy
Expectancy Theories
experimental group
thyroxine
16. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
interneurons
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Burnout
Withdrawal Symptoms
17. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
Gordon Allport
Nonverbal Communication
parathyroid
sound localization
18. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
Lewis Terman
inferential statistics
Robert Zajonc
procedural memory
19. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
temporal lobes
Unconditioned Stimulus
engineering psychologist
Phineas Gage
20. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
norepinephrine
Learned Helplessness
instinct
long-term memory
21. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
Psychoneuroimmunology
Brightness
action potential
Stanley Schachter
22. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
engineering psychologist
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Hans Eysenck
Clark Hull
23. Able to see objects at a distance clearly but having trouble seeing things up close; farsighted
Cognitive Psychology
neuroscience
Hyperopic
Nonverbal Communication
24. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.
Sociobiology
sociocultural psychology
Actor-observer Effect
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
25. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
Leon Festinger
Conservation
recessive gene
Conditioned Response
26. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.
Absolute threshold
Assessment
Opponent-process theory
Fulfillment
27. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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28. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.
Perception
Rosenhan
Social Psychology
semantic memory
29. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes
recessive gene
forebrain
(cerebral) cortex
endocrine system
30. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort
Harry Harlow
Actor-observer Effect
Agoraphobia
Oedipus Complex
31. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
pupil
agonist
amnesia
kinesthesis
32. Maintenance of a constant state of inner stability or balance
forebrain
Ego
visual acuity
Homeostasis
33. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
chromosome
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
amygdala
Delusions
34. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s
excitatory neurotransmitter
correlational research
corpus callosum
Visual cortex
35. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions
agonist
fluid intelligence
top-down processing
Resistance
36. Memory for specific information
science
Self-perception Theory
declarative memory
aversive conditioning
37. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state
emotional intelligence
Arousal
dominant genes
Resolution Phase
38. In an experiment - the group of participants to whom a treatment is given
social psychologist
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
experimental group
Wechsler intelligence tests
39. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
thyroxine
Receptive fields
Placenta
normal distribution
40. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
encoding specificity principle
Primary Reinforcer
hindbrain
Lewis Terman
41. The inability to perceive different hues.
binocular cues
Color Blindness
Robert Zajonc
psychology
42. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
retrieval
Operant Conditioning
psychiatrist
43. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
Schema
Agoraphobia
olfaction
Model
44. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.
Benjamin Whorf
fluid intelligence
Interpersonal Attraction
gustation
45. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
storage
Experimental design
Fixation
Phoneme
46. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
recessive gene
Token economy
debriefing
Extrinsic motivation
47. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Adolescence
Manifest Content
48. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
aphasia
informed consent
Babinski reflex
Stimulant
49. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
Aristotle
Zajonc & Markus
psychoanalyst
imagery
50. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat
Generalized anxiety disorder
Transduction
primacy effect
Karl Wernicke
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