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| 6724718089 | heart failure | a person with type A personality is at risk for developing what? | 0 | |
| 6724721593 | did not take into account personal thoughts/feelings | a major objection in the early Skinner approach is it... | 1 | |
| 6724727981 | universal facial expressions across cultures | a consistent research finding in facial expressions/emotions is... | 2 | |
| 6724733065 | cerebral cortex | most active part of brain in decision making | 3 | |
| 6724736882 | hallucinations | perceptions of nonexistent sensory stimulation (voices) | 4 | |
| 6724739625 | syntax | the rules of grammar | 5 | |
| 6724741927 | instinct | a generally programmed action pattern | 6 | |
| 6724753522 | hypnosis | an induced heightened suggestibility in the individual | 7 | |
| 6724760031 | episodic memory | the collection of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place. | 8 | |
| 6724777048 | general adaptation syndrome (GAS) | three predictable stages the body uses to respond to stressors | 9 | |
| 6724779179 | approach-approach conflict | a conflict between two desired gratifications | 10 | |
| 6724793753 | james-lange theory | the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. | 11 | |
| 6724796855 | cognitive dissonance theory | the theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent. | 12 | |
| 6724804044 | dopamine | an increase in this hormone can lead to schizophrenia | 13 | |
| 6724809291 | gestalt principles | the idea that we perceptually organize things into whole parts | 14 | |
| 6724815684 | antisocial disorder | disorder in which person exhibits dishonesty, trouble with authority figures, and absence for remorse | 15 | |
| 6724822829 | androgeny | exhibiting both male and female characteristics | 16 | |
| 6724828543 | experimental method | seeks to establish cause-effect relationship | 17 | |
| 6724839094 | standardization | sets the norms against which the performance of later test takers can be evaluated | 18 | |
| 6724842435 | significant difference | a difference not likely due to chance | 19 | |
| 6724846014 | negative reinforcement | increasing behaviors by stopping a negative stimuli, when removed strengthens the response (NOT PUNISHMENT) | 20 | |
| 6724858574 | learned helplessness | the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversion events | 21 | |
| 6724869039 | metacognition | thinking about thinking | 22 | |
| 6724872484 | left cerebral hemisphere | speech function primarily localized in | 23 | |
| 6724876271 | inability to make and carry out plans | damage to frontal lobe leads to ... | 24 | |
| 6724877239 | psychoanalysis | the phenomenon of transference | 25 | |
| 6724880631 | behavioral therapy | criticized for not treating underlying cause of disorder | 26 | |
| 6724886621 | barbiturates | drug that acts as a central nervous system depressant | 27 | |
| 6724892244 | responses reinforced in past | emphasis of behavior therapist's | 28 | |
| 6724900937 | formation and modification of schema's | emphasis of cognitive theorists | 29 | |
| 6724906824 | hear sounds | when stimulated, the left temporal lobe causes patients to | 30 | |
| 6724917830 | parasympathetic nervous system | establishes homeostasis after a flight-or-flight response | 31 | |
| 6724919342 | factor analysis | determines the primary components of intelligence | 32 | |
| 6724923559 | there is an inherent language acquisition device | chomskys view of language | 33 | |
| 6724927493 | fluid intelligence | the ability to solve new problems, use logic in new situations, and identify patterns | 34 | |
| 6724933691 | phi phenomenon | when a pair of lights moving quickly appear as one single light | 35 | |
| 6724941303 | the movement of Na and K ions across the membrane creating an action potential | occurs when a neuron is stimulated to its threshold | 36 | |
| 6724945234 | REM sleep | characterized by rapid eye movements, more dreaming and bodily movement, and faster pulse and breathing | 37 | |
| 6724952902 | self-fulfilling prophecy | a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true due to positive feedback between belief and behavior. | 38 | |
| 6724958458 | bipolar cells | cones and rods generate neural signals that activate... | 39 | |
| 6724960859 | smell | the thalamus does NOT control... | 40 | |
| 6724967824 | experiment | a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact. | 41 | |
| 6724971614 | preoperational stage | in Piaget's theory lasts from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age. During this stage, language development is rapid, but the child is unable to understand the mental operations of concrete logi | 42 | |
| 6724977181 | frequency | determines the pitch of a tone | 43 | |
| 6724979474 | innate | humanistic psychologists believe drive toward self actualization is | 44 | |
| 6724983778 | fovea | visual acuity is best in the | 45 | |
| 6724985966 | hippocampus | area of brain most affected by amnesia | 46 | |
| 6724996579 | Rorschach & TAT test | reveal subjects personalities by eliciting response to vague stimulus | 47 | |
| 6725005352 | receptors, afferent neurons, inter neurons, efferent neurons, effector's | correct sequence of neural chain | 48 | |
| 6725008354 | its conclusions can be verified or refuted by subsequent studies | a study can only be considered scientific if... | 49 | |
| 6725013663 | rooting | babies tendency for a baby to turn toward touch when cheek is touched | 50 | |
| 6725022296 | terminal buttons | where neurotransmitters are typically stored | 51 | |
| 6725029263 | Hubel & Wiesel | showed many cortical cells respond most strongly to specific visual information | 52 | |
| 6725043512 | stimulus generalization | tendency for the conditioned stimulus to evoke similar responses after the response has been conditioned | 53 | |
| 6725048480 | bipolar and ganglion cells | photo receptors relay visual info to the brain through... | 54 | |
| 6725057601 | psychotic disorders | hallucinations are a symptom of | 55 | |
| 6725060267 | predicting children's success in school | binet's efforts to measure intelligence were directed at | 56 | |
| 6725068115 | specific phobia | training in construction of an anxiety hierarchy an relaxation techniques is part of treatment for what? | 57 | |
| 6725072889 | esteem needs | maslow's hierarchy of needs states the needs to respect ourselves and others is classified w/i the category of | 58 | |
| 6725082657 | sympathetic | part of nervous most immediately activated during sudden fear | 59 | |
| 6725091292 | Schchater & Singer | view emotion as a result of cognitive labels of psychological changes | 60 | |
| 6725095369 | fundamental attribution error | the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal dispositio | 61 | |
| 6725099539 | phonemes | basic sounds of language | 62 | |
| 6725103305 | clinical disorders | MMPI provides information about.. | 63 | |
| 6725106691 | variable ratio | partial reinforcement most resistant to extinction | 64 | |
| 6725111318 | conservation | refers to the ability to determine that a certain quantity will remain the same despite adjustment of the container, shape, or apparent size. (7-11 yrs) | 65 | |
| 6725120613 | procedural memory | memory of autonomic activities like handwriting and riding a bike | 66 | |
| 6725122594 | brocas area | a region of the brain concerned with the production of speech | 67 | |
| 6725128692 | reliability | correlation between scores obtained on 2 halves of a test yields info about | 68 | |
| 6725150522 | myelin | most involved in electrical aspect | 69 | |
| 6725156845 | cognitive | therapy interested in the processing strategies of children | 70 | |
| 6725167056 | classical conditioning | a learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone | 71 | |
| 6725170337 | hindsight bias | the tendency to think that we could have predicted something that has already occurred that we probably would not have been able to predict. | 72 | |
| 6725173937 | iris | light enters the eye through the opening in the | 73 | |
| 6725178329 | eclectic approach | incorporates a variety of therapeutic principles and philosophies in order to create the ideal treatment program to meet the specific needs of the patient or client. | 74 | |
| 6725183654 | unfullfilled needs | disorders are most caused by... according to humanistic psycholigsts | 75 | |
| 6725189407 | colorblind | genotype XXY means | 76 | |
| 6725191876 | PNS | somatic nervous system is part of | 77 | |
| 6725194403 | basilar membrane | found in inner ear | 78 | |
| 6725200404 | sublimation | mature type of defense mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are unconsciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior, possibly resulting in a long-term conversion of the initial impulse | 79 | |
| 6725807865 | variance | provides the most info about how spread out a distribution of scores is | 80 | |
| 6725811493 | omission training | a behavior-analytic term that refers to a specific form of punishment in which a positive event is withdrawn contingent on the occurrence of a target behavior | 81 | |
| 6725817166 | mental set | a framework for thinking about a problem. It can be shaped by habit or by desire | 82 | |
| 6725821492 | hindbrain and midbrain | the brain stem is comprised of ... | 83 | |
| 6725823923 | regulating emotion | the limbic system plays an important role in | 84 | |
| 6725832170 | 95% | what percent of population scores between 70-130 on the WISC | 85 | |
| 6725834709 | fixed-ratio schedule | a schedule of reinforcement where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses | 86 | |
| 6725840702 | over justification effect | occurs when an expected external incentive such as money or prizes decreases a person's intrinsic motivation to perform a task. | 87 | |
| 6725847162 | approach- avoidance conflict | occur when there is one goal or event that has both positive and negative effects or characteristics that make the goal appealing and unappealing simultaneously | 88 | |
| 6725851882 | identify origin of sound | the fact that our ears are on the side of our head helps us to | 89 | |
| 6725857704 | shape constancy | when people's perception of the shape of an object does not change regardless of changes to the object's orientation. | 90 | |
| 6725864762 | mere-exposure effect | a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them | 91 | |
| 6725870893 | 6 months | when do babies gain the ability to sit up on their own? | 92 | |
| 6725875390 | importance of physical contact to development | harlow's monkey experiment illustrated... | 93 | |
| 6725880134 | early 20's | when do symptoms of schizophrenia usually develop? | 94 | |
| 6728467375 | anthropologists | first to contend that an individuals way of thinking are shaped primarily by cultural values/ideas | 95 | |
| 6728476773 | dopamine | most associated with the experience of pleasure | 96 | |
| 6728483490 | cross-sectional research | primary research method used by developmental psychologists | 97 | |
| 6728488674 | learning | brain lesions in the hippo campus will lead to impairment with.. | 98 | |
| 6728496145 | die | a person with major injuries to the medulla oblongota will | 99 | |
| 6728503285 | psychoanalytic view of behavior | view that behavior is motivated by inner, unconscious forces | 100 | |
| 6728510246 | mania | characterized by abnormally elevated or expansive mood | 101 | |
| 6728514351 | melatonin | hormone essential to sleep regulation | 102 | |
| 6728525067 | retina | transduces visual images | 103 | |
| 6728530727 | alertness | nor epinephrine receptors appear to produce | 104 | |
| 6728610024 | cerebellum | Learning and memory Judges time Emotions Sounds Textures Voluntary movement | 105 | |
| 6728610025 | hippocampus | Consolidation of memory from short to long term | 106 | |
| 6728625506 | hypothalamus | Hunger, thirst, temperature, sexual behavior, reward and pleasure | 107 | |
| 6728647470 | spontaneous recovery | the appearance of a stimulus after a pause | 108 | |
| 6728652238 | sleep stage 1 | Hallucinations Light Sleep Sensory Stimulu slow theta waves | 109 | |
| 6728655552 | sleep stage 2 | sleep spindles Body temperature drops Heart rate drops Sleep talking occurs in this stage | 110 | |
| 6728664764 | sleep stage 3/4 | Slow delta waves are produced in the brain Hard Sleep Bedwetting & Sleepwalking occur in this stage | 111 | |
| 6728773718 | psychoanalytic therapy | Look to uncover the patient's repressed unconscious issues and emotions freud | 112 | |
| 6728776691 | humanistic therapy | Boost self esteem, help realize potential and possibility for growth and self actualization rogers | 113 | |
| 6728787418 | cognitive therapy | Confront patient to show that their thoughts are irrational and counterproductive beck and ellis | 114 | |
| 6728793799 | behavior modification therapy | Correct negative behavior by replacing the behavior with positive incentives and rewards skinner | 115 | |
| 6728797741 | systematic desensitization | Replace behaviors such as a phobia or obsession by subbing fear or anxiety with positive behavior or incentives | 116 | |
| 6728813467 | groupthink | make decisions thinking it is okay the group influence | 117 | |
| 6728816650 | deindividualism | mob mentality, loss of self-awareness in group situations | 118 | |
| 6728820165 | social facilitation | schools/sports keep same age or level together | 119 | |
| 6728822204 | cognitive dissonance | inconsistent, you do something even though you do not want to | 120 |
