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| Cognitive psychologists | Study perception and mental representation and processing |
| Cognitive theory of disorders | Distorted thought processes or view of reality |
| Negative reinforcement | Take away a bad/irritating/undesirable stimulus |
| Group polarization | Group becomes more exreme in their common opinions |
| Aversion therapy | Behaviorist therapy method associated a behavior with a negative association |
| stimulus, physical arousal, emotion | James-Lange emotion theory |
| Stanford-Binet IQ formula | Mental age divided by age |
| Erikson's stage theory | Know the major stage indicators |
| Fluid intelligence | ability to face new problems and information |
| Circadian rhythm | 24 hour cycle connected to sleep patterns and the earth's rotation |
| 5 factor personality theory | Neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness (determined by factor analysis) |
| Depression | Mood disorder, lack of energy, sense of dread, may be treated with ECT |
| Anxiety | Phobias and panic disturbances |
| SAD (seasonal affective disorder) | Responds to light therapy |
| Schizophrenia | may involve hallucinations and is linked to dopamine |
| Behavioral therapy | Does not treat underlying causes- seeks to change actions |
| Transference | A method in psychoanalytic therapy-(a person in therapy may apply certain feelings or emotions toward the therapist) |
| Sternberg | Triarchic theory of intelligence (practical, creative, analytical) |
| Conversion disorder | blindness, paralysis, or other nervous system (neurologic) symptoms that cannot be explained by medical evaluation |
| Anti-social personality disorder | Dishonesty, lack of remorse, lack of regard for authority |
| rational emotive therapy | cognitive therapy that helps us change our negative thining |
| behavior therapists | work to undo reinforcements from the past that caused distress |
| Type A personality | competitive, highly organized, ambitious, impatient, highly aware of time management and/or aggressive |
| Type B personaltiy | More laid back, less stressed |
| Semicircular canal | Part of inner ear that houses auditory receptors |
| Anterograde amnesia | a type of amnesia involving inability to remember any new information |
| retrograde amnesia | oss of memory-access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease |
| Gustatory receptors | Sensitive to tastes of bitter, sour, sweet, salty, savory |
| Selye's general adaptation syndrome | Stress reaction of alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
| Object permanence | Child's recognition that objects still exist even when they aren't seen |
| Rorschach test | Projective personality test |
| Fetal stage | Longest prenatal stage |
| Teratogen | Environmental and other biological hazards to a developing embryo, fetus |
| Authoritarian parenting | Strictest |
| Permissive parenting | Loosest |
| Authoritative | Most reasonable |
| bi-polar cells | activated by neural signals from the retina's rods and cones |
| Pre-Conventional morality | Do the right thing for fear of getting caught and punished |
| CANOE | Big 5 personality theory (know them!) |
| Gender identity | Your inner sense of how you see yourself regarding male and female |
| Habituation | The novelty wears off and we pay less attention to things |
| Ainsworth secure attachment | Young children feel protected by their caregivers, and they know that they can depend on them to return |
| Repression | Defense mechanism of holding undesirable thoughts and memories in the unconscious |
| James-Lange Emotion theory | Body responds and then you feel the emotion |
| Circadian rhythm | 24 hour sleep-wake cycle |
| Humanistic Psychology | Focus on free will and the whole person |
| Androgyny | combination of masculine and feminine characteristics |
| Vestibular system | receives information from the bones in the middle ear |
| Hypothalamus | Regulates hunger and body temperature among other processes |
| Algorithm method of problem solving | Step by step, following a set of steps/rules |
| Milgram | Studied obedience and the impact of others not obeying |
| Gestalt | Perceptual organization that makes a whole out of the parts |
| Speech functions | Generally in the Left cerebral hemisphere |
| Frontal Lobe | Controls problem solving and higher order thinking |
| Barbiturates | acts as a central nervous system depressant |
| Cognitive dissonance | Altering your beliefs to match your actions (e.g.- "smoking keeps my weight in check" |
| MRI | Provides detailed images of the brain/body |
| Parasympathetic nervous system | Calms the body after arousal |
| Action potential | In response to a signal from another neuron, sodium and potassium gated ion channels open and close |
| Thalamus | Processes sensory information (except smell) |
| Group polarization | Opinions become more extreme with like minded people |
| Absolute threshold | lowest level of a stimulus (e.g. light, sound, touch) – that an organism can detect |
| Hallucinations | Nonexistent sensory stimuli (Sights, sounds, touch) |
| Standardization of tests | Tense is norm referenced to a sample group |
| Type A personality | utgoing, ambitious, rigidly organized, sensitive, impatient, anxious, proactive, concerned with time management |
| Type B personality | relaxed, less stressed, flexible, emotional and expressive, and have a laid-back attitude |
| Semicircular canal | Coiled tube in inner ear with auditory receptors |
| Random Sample | Each person in identified group has equal chance of being chosen for a study |
| Depth perception | Binocular cues lead to visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions (3D) and the distance of an object |
| significant difference | difference in experimental results not likely due to chance |
| Learned helpless/external locus of control | Your actions/responses do not change the environment |
| REM sleep | paradoxical- active but less muscle tone and sense of paralysis |
