The period that follows the onset of an action potential, during which a nerve impulse cannot be initiated, is called the _________.

The minimum of stimulus energy needed to activate a sensory system is known as the _________.

A principle of Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where cognitive structures are modified because new information or experiences do not fit into existing cognitive structures, is called _________.

A neurotransmitter found in both central and peripheral nervous systems linked to Alzheimer's disease and used to transmit nerve impulses to the muscles is called _________.

A specific phobia that is an irrational fear of heights is called _________.

A model that describes memory in terms of procedural and declarative memory is called the _________

The tendency of actors to see observer behavior as due to external factors and the tendency of observers to attribute actors' behaviors to internal characteristics is called the _________?

A hormone that increases energy available for 'fight or flight' reactions is called _________.

A visual sensation that appears after prolonged or intense exposure to a stimulus is called _________.

Impairments in perceptual recognition are known as _________.

An irrational fear of being in places or situations where escape might be difficult is called _________.

A law about nerve impulses stating that when depolarization reaches the critical threshold, the neuron is going to fire every time is called the _________

In psychometrics, the method of using two or more different forms of a test to determine the reliability of a particular test is called the _________.

A form of helping behavior where the person's intent is to benefit someone else at some cost to him- or herself is called _________.

A dissociative disorder where individuals are unable to recall past experience, but this inability is not due to a neurological disorder, is called _________.

McGuire's analogy that people can be psychologically inoculated against the 'attack' of persuasive communications by first exposing them to a weakened attack is called the _________.

A statistical method to compare the means of more than two groups by comparing the between-group variance to the within-group variance is called _________.

A cognitive term (a heuristic) that refers to the tendency of people to make decisions based on reference points, or standards used to make judgements is called _________.

An archetype from Jung's theory referring to the feminine behaviors in males, and the masculine behaviors in females is called _________.

An eating disorder characterized by a refusal to maintain a minimal normal body weight is called _________.

Memory loss for new information following brain injury is known as _________.

A personality disorder characterized by a pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others is called _________.

An impairment in the ability to eat is called _________.

Language disorders, which are associated with Broca's and Wernicke's areas in the brain, are called _________.

An illusion that occurs when two dots flashed in different locations on a screen seconds apart are perceived as one moving dot is called _________.

An impairment in the organization of voluntary action is called _________.

The building blocks for the collective unconscious referred to in Jung's theory of personality are called _________.

A principle of Piaget's theory of cognitive development, describing the process of understanding new information in relation to prior knowledge or existing schemata, is called _________.

Areas in the brain that integrate information from different cortical regions are called _________.

A model of memory that involves three memory structures (sensory, short-term and long-term), and the processes that operate these memory structures, is called the _________?

Evidence of a preference for the primary caregiver and a wariness of strangers is called _________

A disorder characterized by developmentally atypical inattention and/or impulsivity-hyperactivity is called _________.

Fritz Heider's theory that people tend to infer the causes of other people's behavior as either dispositional (related to the individual) or situational (related to the environment) is called _________?

A parenting style tending to use punitive control methods and lacking emotional warmth is called _________.

A parenting style tending to have reasonably high demands for child compliance coupled with emotional warmth is called _________.

A disorder whose essential features are lack of responsiveness to other people, gross impairment in communication skills, and behaviors and interests that are repetitive, inflexibly routined and stereotyped is called _________?

What is the term for the following definition? An illusion that occurs when a spot of light appears to move erratically in a dark room, simply because there is no frame of reference.

What is the term for the following definition? A decision-making short-cut that people tend to use when trying to decide how likely something is based upon how easily similar instances can be imagined.

What is the term for the following definition? A behavioral therapy of pairing unpleasant stimuli with undesirable behavior.

What is the term for the following definition? Fritz Heider's consistency theory that is concerned with balance and imbalance in the ways in which three elements are related.

What is the term for the following definition? A therapeutic technique that is a negotiated agreement between two parties that explicitly stipulates the behavioral change that is desired and indicates consequences of certain acts.

What is the term for the following definition? A class of drugs that increase behavioral activity by increasing motor activity or by counteracting fatigue, and which are thought to stimulate receptors for dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin.

What is the term for the following definition? Proposed by Von Békésy, the theory holds that high frequency sounds maximally vibrate the basilar membrane near the beginning of the cochlea close to the oval window and low frequencies maximally vibrate near the apex, or tip of the cochlea.

What is the term for the following definition? An experimental design whereby each subject is exposed to only one level of each independent variable.

What is the term for the following definition? A cue for depth perception that depends on the fact that the distance between the eyes provides two slightly disparate views of the world that, when combined, give us a perception of depth.

What is the term for the following definition? A mood disorder characterized by both depression and mania.

What is the term for the following definition? In theories of attitude persuasion, it is an attitude change in the opposite direction of the persuader's message.

What is the term for the following definition? A personality disorder characterized by an instability in interpersonal behavior, mood and self-image that borders on psychosis.

What is the term for the following definition? Information processing that occurs when objects are recognized by the summation of the components of incoming stimulus to arrive at the whole pattern.

What is the term for the following definition? The subjective impression of the intensity of a light stimulus.

What is the term for the following definition? In brightness perception, it refers to a when a particular luminance appears brighter when surrounded by a darker stimulus than when surrounded by a lighter stimulus.

What is the term for the following definition? Impairments in producing spoken language associated with lesions to Broca's area.

An eating disorder that involves binge eating and excessive attempts to compensate for it by purging, fasting, or excessive exercising is called _________.

The reluctance of people to intervene to help others in emergency situations when other people also witness the situation is known as _________

A theory of emotions stating that awareness of emotions reflects our physiological arousal and our cognitive experience of emotion is called the _________

An experimental method used in developmental psychology to take a very detailed look at development by studying a small number of individuals is called a _________.

In Piaget's theory, the tendency for pre-operational children to be able to focus on only one aspect of a phenomenon is called _________.

A statistical method of testing for an association between two categorical variables, specifically testing for the equality of two frequencies or proportions, is called the _________.

An anti-psychotic drug thought to block receptor sites for dopamine, making it effective in treating the delusional thinking, hallucinations and agitation commonly associated with schizophrenia, is called _________.

Internally generated rhythms that regulate our daily cycle of waking and sleeping, approximating a 24-hour cycle, are called _________.

Also known as respondent conditioning, it is a result of learning connections between different events. This is called _________.

An irrational fear of closed places is known as _________.

Carl Rogers' therapeutic technique that is based on the idea that clients have the freedom to control their own behavior, and that the client is able to reflect upon his or her problems, make choices and take positive action, is called _________.

A technique to enhance memory by organizing items into conceptually-related categories is called _________.

Leon Festinger's consistency theory that people are motivated to reduce dissonant elements or add consonant elements to reduce tension is called _________

A mental representation of a physical space is called a _________

The fact that the perceived color of an object does not change when we change the wavelength of the light we see is called _________.

A defense mechanism whereby something is done to make up for something that is lacking is called _________.

The process that takes place in the fallopian tubes where the ovum or egg cell is fertilized by the male sperm cell is called _________.

In classical conditioning, it is the learned response to a conditioned stimulus. Fill in the blank: _________.

In classical conditioning, it is a neutral stimulus that has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a conditioned response. Fill in the blank: _________.

Unintended independent variables. Fill in the blank: _________.

Also called parallel distribution processing, it is a theory of information processing that is analogous to a complex neural network. Fill in the blank: _________.

Theoretical perspectives from social psychology that hold that people prefer consistency between attitudes and behaviors, and that people will change or resist changing attitudes based upon this preference. Fill in the blank: _________.

A type of validity that refers to how well a test measures the intended theoretical construct. Fill in the blank: _________.

A type of validity that refers to how well the content items of a test measure the particular skill or knowledge area that it is supposed to measure. Fill in the blank: _________.

A technique of treating experimental and control groups equally in all respects, except that one group is exposed to the treatment in the experiment, and the other group is not exposed to the treatment. Fill in the blank: _________

Disorders characterized by unexplained symptoms affecting voluntary motor or sensory functions. Conversion disorder used to be referred to as 'hysteria.' Fill in the blank: _________.

A type of descriptive statistic that measures to what extent, if any, two variables are related. Fill in the blank: _________.

A method of controlling the potential effects of unintended independent variables (e.g., order effects) by making sure that the experimental and control groups are similar in all respects except for in the independent variable being measured. Fill in the blank: _________.

In psychoanalysis, it occurs when the therapist experiences emotions in response to the patient's transference. Fill in the blank: _________.

How well the test can predict an individual's performance on an established test of the same skill or knowledge area. Fill in the blank: _________.

An experimental method used in developmental psychology to compare different groups of individuals at different ages. Fill in the blank: _________.

Proposed by Raymond Cattell, it is a type of intelligence that uses knowledge acquired as a result of schooling or other life experiences. Fill in the blank: _________.

A specific phobia referring to an irrational fear of dogs. Fill in the blank: _________.

A theory that holds that if the information in long-term memory is not used or rehearsed it will eventually be forgotten. Fill in the blank: _________.

What is the term for the following definition? Sometimes called fact memory, it is memory for explicit information.

What is the term for the following definition? In Freud's structural dynamic model of personality, they are unconscious mechanisms that deny, falsify or distort reality.

What is the term for the following definition? False beliefs, discordant with reality, that are maintained in spite of strong evidence to the contrary.

What is the term for the following definition? Cues that suggest to subjects what the researcher expects from research participants.

What is the term for the following definition? The word literally means "split mind", and was used to refer to what is now known as schizophrenia.

What is the term for the following definition? A neurological disorder characterized by a loss in intellectual functioning.

What is the term for the following definition? A measurement of the response that is expected to vary with differences in the independent variable.

What is the term for the following definition? A dissociative disorder that involves a sense of detachment from the self despite an intact sense of reality.

What is the term for the following definition? The second stage in the firing cycle, occurs when the membrane's electrical charge decreases—anytime the membrane's voltage moves toward a neutral charge of 0 millivolts.

What is the term for the following definition? Statistics concerned with organizing, describing, quantifying, and summarizing a collection of actual observations.

What is the term for the following definition? A deviation IQ score that tells us how far away a person's score is from the average score for that person's particular age group.

What is the term for the following definition? A framework explaining the causes of mental disorders as an interaction between biological causal factors (a predisposition toward developing a specific mental disorder) and psychological causal factors (excessive stress).

What is the term for the following definition? The amount of difference that there must be between two stimuli before they are perceived to be different.