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Aaron Beck’s view of depression
Absolute threshold
Accommodation
Achievement vs. aptitude tests
Action vs. resistance potential
Acuity vision
Addiction
Aggression/testosterone
Ainsworth Strange Situation
(Paradigm)
Albert Bandura: major view on
learning and Bobo Doll experiment
Albert Ellis-Rational Emotive
Therapy (RET)
Alfred Adler- inferiority complex
All-or-nothing law (all-or-none) of
neural firing
Allport’s Theory
Altruism
American Psychological Association
(APA)
Amnesia (anteriograde and
retrograde)
Androgenous
Anosmia
Antisocial
Apparent motion
Army Alpha test
Arousal theory
Asch’s conformity study (line
segments)
Attachment
Attraction theory
Attribution theory
Autism
Autonomic Nervous System
Aversive conditioning (good or bad?)
Aversive conditions
Aves
Axon
B.F. Skinner
Babinsky response
Barbiturates (use)
Barnum effect
Behavior as being adaptive
Behaviorism
Bell curve (normal distribution)
Benjamin Worf’s theory of linguistic
relativism (determinism)
Bias (self serving, different kinds)
Binocular disparity
Bipolar
Blind spot
Blood-brain barrier
Bones of the inner ear
Brain functions
Brain: what part do we share with
animals? How do we differ?
50. Brainstorming
51. Broca’s aphasia
(expressive) located in
left frontal lobe
52. Broca’s Area
53. Bystander effect
54. Bystander intervention:
factors that influence it
55. Cannon’s critique of
James-Lange theory
56. Cannon-Bard Theory of
emotions
57. Carl Rogers: person
(client) centered therapy
58. Carol Gillan’s criticism
of Kohlberg’s theory
59. Catharsis
60. Causation
61. Central Nervous
System/ANS/PNS
62. Cerebellum
63. Cerebral cortex
64. Chaining
65. Character disorders:
major ones
66. Chemical that controls
sexual activity
67. Chomsky’s view of
language
68. Chunking
69. Circadian rhythm-REM
sleep
70. Classical Conditioning (
& can you distinguish it
from operant
conditioning)
71. Clever Hans experiment
72. Cognitive dissonance
73. Cognitive maps
74. Color blindness: kinds
75. Complementary colors
76. Conditioned response
77. Conditioned stimulus
78. Conflicts: four kinds
79. Conformity
80. Control & Experimental
groups
81. Corpus callosum
82. Correlation (negative,
positive)
83. Correlation coefficients
84. Cortexes of the brain:
major ones
85. Critical period of
development
86. Cross cultural studies
87. Cross sectional studies
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88. Crystallized intelligence: acquired
and usually does not decline with age
89. CS-CR-UCS-UCR
90. Daniel Goleman’s views on
emotional intelligence
91. David McClelland’s achievement
motivation studies
92. Defense Mechanisms (major ones)
93. Deindividuation
94. Deinstitutionalization
95. Dendrites (purpose of)
96. Depression: trycyclic antidepressants
are most widely used to treat it
97. Descriptive vs. inferential statistics
98. Determinism
99. Development: continuous v. stages
100. Developmental psychology
101. Diagnostic Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (purpose and
limits) DSM
102. Difference Threshold (JND)
103. Diffusion of responsibility
104. Discrimination (in learning theory
and race relations)
105. Displacement
106. Dissociative disorders
107. Distribution of scores
108. Dominant responses (aided by social
facilitation)
109. Dopamine
110. Double blind
111. Down’s syndrome
112. Dream analysis
113. Drive reduction theory
114. Drives
115. DSM-IV
116. Ebbinhaus’ research on memory
117. Echoic memory
118. ECT (for depression)
119. Effects of marijuana
120. Eidetic memory
121. EKG
122. Electroconvulsive Therapy ECT
123. Elizabeth Loftus’ research on
eyewitness testimony
124. Endocrine organs and hormones
secreted by them
125. Endorphins
126. Engram
127. Epinephrine/norepinephrine
128. Episodic memory (a.k.a. flashbulb)
129. Equity theory of relationships
130. Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial
development
131. ESP
132. Ethics of testing
133. Ethics on animal experiments
134. Ethnocentrism
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135. Experiment: be able to design one
136. External locus of control
137. Eye Parts (peripheral, cones, retina)
138. Factor analysis
139. False consensus effect
140. Feature (signal) detector cells: Hubel
& Wisel’s research on visual
processing
141. Feature analysis
142. Feral children
143. Fetal alcohol syndrome:
characteristics
144. Figure-ground-phenomenon
145. Flashbulb memory
146. Flynn Effect
147. Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
148. Formal operations
149. Fovea
150. Francis Galton’s research
151. Free association
152. Frequency polygon
153. Freud’s stage of psychosexual
development
154. Freudian dream analysis: two levels
of interpretation
155. Frontal lobe
156. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
157. Functional fixedness
158. Fundamental attribution error
159. G factor
160. Galvanic skin response (GRS)
161. Ganglia
162. Gansfeld procedure
163. Gate control theory of pain
164. Gender Differences
165. Generalizability of a study
166. Generalization
167. Genetics
168. Genotype and phenotype
169. Gestalt theory
170. Glial cells
171. Group therapy (advantages of)
172. Group think/group polarization
173. Gustatory (receptors) sense: detects
only sweet, sour, salty, bitter
174. Habituation
175. Hans Seyle’s theory--General
Adaptation Response
176. Harry Harlow’s research with
surrogate mothers
177. Hawthorne Effect
178. Heroine
179. Heuristics: major types
180. Hidden observer
181. Hierarchy of needs (Maslow) can you
put them in order?
182. High vs. low self monitors
183. Hindsight bias
184. Hippocampus
185. histogram
186. Homeostasis
187. Homosexuality
188. Hormones-where are they
produces?
189. Howard Gardner’s view
of multiple intelligence
190. Hue (British term for
color)
191. Humanistic perspective
192. Hunger (body part that
controls)
193. Hybrid
194. Hypnosis: major theories
of
195. Hypothalamus (function)
196. Id, ego, superego
197. IDEAL (strategy for
solving problems)
198. Identical twin research
199. Identification vs.
internalization (Freudian
terms)
200. Identity vs. Role
Confusion
201. Illusory correlation
202. Imagining techniques:
PET, CAT, MRI, FMRI
203. Implicit/explicit
motivation
204. Imprinting
205. Incentives
206. Independent/Dependent
Variable
207. Induced motion
208. Inductive vs. deductive
reasoning
209. Industrial (organizational)
psychology
210. Ingroup and outgroup
bias
211. Inner ear damage &
behavior
212. Insight
213. Instinct
214. Instrumental – operant
conditioning
215. Intelligence Quotient IQ
216. Intelligence tests (major
kinds used)
217. Intelligence: Crystallized,
fluid
218. Intelligence: stability or
change
219. Interference (proactive
vs. retroactive)
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220. Internal consistency reliability
221. internalization
222. IQ calculations
223. James-Lange Theory of emotions
224. John Garcia’s ideas on the limits of
conditioning
225. Just-world phenomenon
226. Karen Horney’s views on
development
227. Kinesthetics
228. Kohlberg-moral development
229. Kubler Ross’ stages of dying
230. Language acquisition device
231. L-dopa
232. Learning curve
233. Limbic system (structure and
function)
234. Linear perspective
235. Linkage analysis
236. Lithium (bi polar disorders)
237. Little Albert
238. Localization of sound (how is it
done? Why aretwo ears needed?)
239. Long term memory
240. Long term potentiation
241. Longitudinal study
242. Loss of information from short term
memory
243. Love: passionate/companionate
244. Major neurotransmitters
245. Martin Seligman’s “learned
helplessness”
246. Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation
Paradigm
247. Maslow’s Hierarchy
248. Measures of Central Tendency:
Mean, median, mode
249. Measures of variability: range and
standard deviation
250. Memory: kinds ( sensory, short-term,
long-term)
251. Memory-hippocampus
252. Mental age
253. Mental set
254. Metacognition (therapies)
255. Method of loci
256. Milgram-study of obedience
257. Milieu therapy
258. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory (MMPI) Test; use for
what?
259. Misinformation effect
260. Modeling
261. Monocular vs. binocular depth cues
262. Mood/Anxiety Disorders
263. Morphine
264. Motion aftereffect
265. Motion parallax
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266. Motion parallax
267. Motor cortex
268. Myelin sheath (where and purpose)
269. Narcissism
270. Nature vs. nurture controversy
271. Negative reinforcement
272. Nerve firing
273. Nervous system: major parts
274. Neuron (3 basic parts)
275. Neurotransmitters
276. Newborn baby reflexes
277. Next –in-line-effect
278. Normal distribution
279. Normative social influence
280. Norms
281. Novelty preference
282. Obesity (role of hypothalamus)
283. Obsessive compulsive disorders
(OCD)
284. Occipital lobe
285. Oedipal conflict
286. Oedipus complex
287. One eye problem – what you couldn’t
do well if you had only one eye
288. Operational stages
289. Operationalizing a definition
290. Opiates
291. Opponent Process Theory of
emotions
292. Opponent Process Theory of visual
processing (afterimages)
293. Optic disc
294. Optic nerve
295. Pancreas
296. Panic attacks (what is the best
treatment?)
297. Paradoxical sleep: why is EM called
this?
298. Paranoid personality disorder
299. Paresis
300. Pavlov
301. Perception cues
302. Perceptual constancy (size, color,
shape)
303. Perceptual set
304. Personal space
305. Perspectives in psychology (major
ones)
306. PET Scan
307. Phenylketonuria (PKU)
308. Phi Phenomenon
309. Phobias
310. Phonemes vs. Morphemes
311. Photoreceptors
312. Physical dependence
313. Piaget theories
314. Piaget’s stages of cognitive
development
315. Pineal gland (function
and what makes it
unique)
316. Pitch
317. Pituitary gland
318. PKU
319. Plasticity
320. Positive Reinforcement
321. Positively skewed
322. Post traumatic stress
disorder
323. Post-synaptic gap
324. Precognition
325. Premack principle
326. Preoperational stage
327. Primacy effect
328. Primary& secondary
scheduling
329. Proactive interference
330. Proactive retroference
331. Projective tests (MMPI,
TAT, Inkblot-Rorschach)
332. Prosocial behavior: what
is it and give an example.
333. Prototype
334. Proximity (effects on
relationships)
335. Prozac
336. Psychoanalysis
337. Punishment: why it may
not be effective and might
backfire
338. Random Sampling
339. Rational Emotive
Therapy
340. Reading graphs
341. Reality principle
(function of ego)
342. Recessive vs. dominant
genes
343. Red/Green colorblindness
344. Reflex arc
345. Regression
346. Reification
347. Reliability vs. validity in
testing
348. REM sleep
349. Repression
350. RET by Ellis
351. Reticular formation:
related to sleep, arousal,
attention
352. Retinal disparity (a.k.a.
binocular disparity)
353. Retroactive/ Proactive
memory
354. Robert Rescorla’s
findings on conditioning
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355. Rods and cones (structures and
differences)
356. Rooting reflex
357. Sample
358. Scatter plots: most often used to plot
correlations (+, -, none)
359. Schedules or reinforcement (5 kindswhich are most effective?)
360. Schemas
361. Schizophrenia
362. Selective attention
363. Self fulfilling prophecy/Pygmalion
effect
364. Self-efficacy
365. Self-fulfilling prophecy
366. Self-serving bias
367. Semantic memory
368. Sensory adaptation
369. Serial position effect
370. Serotonin/endorphins
371. Set Point
372. Sexual characteristics (primary vs.
secondary)
373. Sexual identity vs. gender identity
374. Shaping
375. Sigmund Freud
376. Signal detection theory
377. Skewed distribution
378. Skinner
379. Sleep cycles
380. Sleep disorders: major kinds
381. Sleeper effect
382. Social cognitive theory
383. Social exchange theory
384. Social facilitation
385. Social loafing/social facilitation
386. Social trap
387. Soloman Asch conformity study
388. Somatoform disorders: major kinds
389. Somatosensory cortex: location and
used for what sense?
390. Spilt brain surgery
391. Stages of learning (acquisition,
extinction, spontaneous recovery,)
392. Standard deviation
393. Standardization
394. Stanley Milgram’s experiment with
obedience
395. Stanley Schachter’s Two Factor
Theory
396. Statistics/norms/normal distribution
397. Stereotype
398. Stimulant
399. Stimulus generalization
400. Stranger anxiety
401. Studies: cross-sectional longitudinal
402. Syntax
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403. Systematic desensitization: a.k.a. a
kind of counter conditioning
404. Tay-Sachs disease
405. Testable hypothesis
406. Testing bias
407. Thalamus (what sense does not get
routed through thalamus?)
408. Theories of development
409. Thorazine
410. Thorndike’s Law of Effect
411. Thyroid gland
412. token economy
413. Tourette’s disorder
414. Tragedy of the commons
415. Transduction
416. Turner’s syndrome (X with missing
chromosome)
417. Type A/B personality
418. Unconditional response
419. Unconditional stimulus
420. Validity (different kinds)
421. Vestibular sense
422. Visual cliff/Ames room
423. WAIS
424. Water balance (role of hypothalamus)
425. Weber’s Law
426. Wernicke’s area (aphasia) left
temporal lobe
427. Whorfian Theory
428. Wilder Penfield’s research on the
brain
429. Wilhelm Wundt (structuralism)
430. William James (functionalism)
431. Yerkes/Dodson Arousal Law
432. Zajonc’s “Mere Expose Effect”
433. Zimbardo prison experiment and
social psychological studies
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