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| Research |
| APA ethical guidelines |
| Central tendency (the 3 Ms) |
| Correlation coefficient |
| Cross-sectional |
| Dependent variable |
| Double blind |
| Experiment |
| Fixed interval schedule |
| Hawthorne effect |
| Illusory correlation |
| Independent variable |
| Informed consent |
| Longitudinal |
| Negative correlation |
| Placebo effect |
| Positive correlation |
| Reliability |
| Standard deviation |
| Validity |
| Variance |
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| Biology |
| Action potential |
| Afferent |
| All-or-none response |
| Amygdala |
| Broca’s area |
| CAT |
| Corpus Callosum |
| EEG |
| Efferent |
| Endocrine system |
| Endorphins |
| Frontal lobe |
| Hippocampus |
| Hormones |
| Lateral hypothalamus |
| Left brain vs. Right brain |
| Monozygotal vs. Dizygotal twins |
| MRI |
| Mylein sheath |
| Neurotransmitters |
| Occipital lobe |
| Parasympathetic Nervous System |
| Parietal lobe |
| PET |
| Recessive gene |
| Reticular Activating System |
| Reuptake |
| Sperry, Roger |
| Sympathetic Nervous System |
| Temporal lobe |
| Terminal buttons |
| Thalamus |
| Ventromedial hypothalamus |
| Werncke's Area |
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| Sensation/Perception |
| Absolute threshold |
| Aphasia |
| Color blindedness |
| Gestalt perception theory |
| Habituation |
| Homeostatic |
| Hubel and Wiesel |
| JND (just noticable difference) |
| Law of Pragnanz (relation to Gestalt) |
| Middle and inner ear functions |
| Monocular depth cues |
| Motion parallax |
| Phi phenomenon |
| Rods and Cones |
| Selective attention |
| Semicircular Canals |
| Sensory adaptation |
| Signal Detection Theory |
| Transduction |
| Vestibular System |
| Weber’s Law |
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| Memory |
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| Anterograde
amnesia |
| Atkinson and
Schiffrin |
| Ebbinghaus,
Herman |
| Echoic |
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| Explicit |
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| Iconic |
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| Implicit |
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| Loftus, Elizabeth |
| LTM |
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| Proactive memory
interference |
| Recognition
vs. Recall |
| Sensory |
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| Serial position
effect (primacy/recency) |
| STM |
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| Thinking/Language |
| Achievement
vs. Aptitude |
| Availability
heuristic |
| Beck, Aaron |
| Broca’s
area |
| Chomsky, Noam |
| Divergent thinking |
| Fluid vs. Crystalized
Intelligence |
| Functional fixedness |
| IQ and distribution
scales |
| Kohler’s
insight study (chimps) |
| Morpheme |
| Overgeneralization |
| Phoneme |
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| Prototype |
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| Representative
Heuristic |
| Schema/Schemata |
| Stanford-Binet
test |
| Werncke's Area |
| Weschler IQ
tests |
| Whorf’s
theory of language acquisition |
| Zone of proximal
development |
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| Consciousness |
| Alpha/delta
sleep waves |
| Effects of drugs and alcohol |
| Hilgard's hypnosis theory |
| Parapsychology |
| REM sleep |
| Reuptake |
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| Personality |
| Allport’s
personality trait theory |
| Antisocial personality
disorder |
| Cattell’s
personality assessment |
| Displacement |
| Dream analysis |
| Eysenck’s
personality assessment |
| Freud, Anna |
| Freud, Sigmund |
| Histrionic personality
disorder |
| Id, ego and
superego |
| Jung’s
anima and animus |
| MMPI |
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| Myers-Briggs
Personality test |
| Narcissitic
personality disorder |
| Nomothetic v.
idiographic |
| Oedipus Complex |
| Projection |
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| Psychometrics |
| Reaction formation |
| Rorschach inkblot
test |
| Sublimation |
| The Big Five
personality theory |
| Thematic Apperception
Test |
| Transference |
| Type-A v. Type-B
personality |
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| Emotion/Motivation |
| Aggression |
| Cannon-Bard
theory |
| Drive reduction
theory |
| James-Lange
theory |
| Kagan, Jerome |
| Lateral hypothalamus |
| rational-emotive
theory |
| Schachter and
Singer study |
| Secondary drive |
| Ventromedial
hypothalamus |
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| Developmental |
| Accommodation |
| Ainsworth, Mary |
| Assimilation |
| Erikson, Erik |
| Gibson's
visual cliff |
| Harlow's terrycloth monkeys |
| Imprinting |
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| Kohlberg, Lawrence |
| Lorenz, Konrad |
| Object permanence |
| Parenting styles |
| Piaget, Jean |
| Stranger anxiety |
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| Learning |
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| Bandura, Albert |
| Conditioned
stimulus |
| Conditioned
taste aversion |
| Conditioned/Unconditioned
Response |
| Discrimination |
| Extinction |
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| Generalization |
| John Locke’s
tabula rasa |
| Latent learning |
| Negative reinforcement |
| Pavlov, Ivan |
| primary and
secondary reinforcers |
| Rescorla, Robert |
| Shaping |
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| Skinner, B.F. |
| Spontaneous
recovery |
| Structuralism |
| Systematic desensitization |
| Tolman, Edward |
| Unconditioned
stimulus |
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| Social
Psych/Humanistic |
| Asch’s
conformity study |
| Cognitive dissonance |
| Diffusion of
responsibility |
| Egocentrism |
| Gilligan, Carol |
| Group polarization |
| Groupthink |
| Intrinsic vs.
Extrinsic |
| Learned Helplessness |
| Locus of Control
theory |
| Maslow, Abraham |
| Milgrim’s
obedience study |
| Rogers, Carl |
| Self actualization |
| Self efficacy |
| Self-fulfilling
prophecy |
| Seligmans, Martin |
| Sherif, Muzafer |
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| Disorders |
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| Agoraphobia |
| Anxiety disorders |
| Dissociative disorders |
| Hans-Selye (GAS) |
| Mood disorders |
| OCD |
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| Schizophrenia |
| Somatoform disorder |
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| Therapies |
| Avoidance approach |
| Client-centered
therapy |
| Conditioned
taste aversion |
| Electroconvulsive
therapy |
| Ellis' Rational
Emotive Theory |
| Free association |
| Gestalt therapy |
| Group/family
therapy |
| Librium |
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| Lithium bicarbonate |
| Psychometrics |
| Systematic desensitization |
| Thorazine |
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