Pyschology Terms

2. Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation.

3. Drugs used to treat depression and some anxiety disorders. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters

5. An eating disorder in which a person ( usually an adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being signifcantly underweight.

6. A personality disorder in which a person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even towards friends and family me

7. Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety, or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.

8. Any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy.

9. Unselfish reguard for the welfare of others.

10. Feelings often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.

11. The theory that we explain someones behavior by crediting either the situation or the persons disposition.

12. The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present.

13. Carl Jung´s concept of of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history.

14. In psychoanalytic theory, the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

15. The largely conscious ¨executive¨ part of personality that, according to freud. Mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and real

16. A response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors and (3) conscious experience.

17. Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending toemotional needs related to ones stress reaction.

18. The tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness.

19. A subfield of I/O psychology that examines organizational influences on worker satifaction and productivity and facilitates organization

20. A subfield of I/O psychology that focuses on employee recruitment, selection,placement, training, appraisal, and development.

21. A method for assessing an individuals mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using nermerical scores.

22. A measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of p

23. (Normal distribution) A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distrubition of many types of data; most scores fall near the

24. All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

25. A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.

26. A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.

27. An inability to form new memories.

28. Unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency and of well learned information, such as word meaning

29. Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically.

30. Reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs.

31. In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditi

32. The diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned

33. An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession.

34. A tone´s experienced highness or lowness; depends on frequency.

35. In hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochleas membrane is stimulated.

36. An optimal period early in life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences procedures normal development.

37. A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another.

38. A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span.

39. The sex chromosome found in both men and women. Females have two X chromosomes; males have one. An X chromosome from each parent produce

40. The sex chromosome found only in males. When paired with an X chromosome from the mother it produces a male child.

41. Our awareness of ourselves and our environment.

42. The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language).

43. The principle that information is often stimultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks.

44. A nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system.

45. A neurons bushy branching extensions that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body.

46. The neuron extension that passes messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands.

47. The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have forseen it.

48. Thinking that does no blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather It examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates eviden

49. A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other.

50. An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events.

51. The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent. For example when we become aware that

52. The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.

53. The activation often unconsciously, of certain associations this predisposing ones perception, memory, or response.

55. A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that acoording to Freud strives to satisfybasic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates