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| established first psychological lab |
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| introduced classical conditioning to advertising |
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| established functionalism and applied psychology |
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| established structuralism |
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| Science of behavior and profession that applies its science to practical problems |
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| first women to be president of the American psych. Association. |
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| Examining action potentials of neurons |
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| Natural selection and mating preferences among human beings |
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| developmental psychologist |
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| Psychologist who are interested in behavioral and cognitive changes over time |
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| Difference/s between a psychiatrist and clinical psychologist |
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Psychiatrist-trained medical doctor, can prescribe medication, and employs the disease model.
Clinical Psychologist-utilizes a holistic approach |
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| Unstructured/Informal interview |
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| least effective strategy to select potential employees |
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| Organizational psychologist |
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| applied psychologists that are interested in how work environments and leadership/management styles affect employee motivation |
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| Factors associated with a successful entrepreneur |
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| Unyielding optimism, advanced social skills, and intrinsically motivated |
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| an award for increasing morale and welfare of employees |
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| an employee that is highly involved and identifies with job |
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| a management strategy that delegates and directs employees |
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| type of leadership that focuses on organizational goals |
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| knowing something after that something was known |
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| In the zone on auto pilot.. totally engaged... |
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| Human factor Psychologist |
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| Deals with people's anger over usability |
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| characteristics of Conviction prone juror |
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| well educated, high in social status, conservative, and Caucasian |
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| I knew it all along phenomenon |
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| Having a work like attitude trying to improve and learn |
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| Not a descriptive method in psychological science |
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| Survey, naturalistic observation, case study |
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| Significance of the Stanley Milgram obedience experiment |
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| cannot assume common sense explanations about human nature |
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| Strongest correlation coefficient |
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| Employes random assignment |
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| How do psychologist increase "control" in an experiment |
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| statistical measure of central tendency procedure |
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| manipulated in an experiment definition |
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| procedure to describe and measure a variable |
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| relationship towards variable where none exist |
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| employed in placebo studies |
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| studies the relationships between a person's skull |
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| the structure that receives action potentials from other neurons |
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| Regulates the speed of action potentials |
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| Neurotransmitter that regulates with sleep and mood regulation |
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| Reabsorbs neurotransmitters back into the synaptic vesicles |
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| Nervous system that reacts to certain situations example fight or flight |
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| Regulates hunger thirst sex |
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| Brain stem that regulates complex movement |
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| Compensating brain function |
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| tucking and folding of the cerebral cortex |
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| perennial stage that is most vulnerable to teratogens |
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| Cephalocaudal development |
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| milestone of sensory motor development |
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| basis of the infants first attachment |
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| female's first menstruation episode |
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| related to positive child development |
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| Secondary sexual characteristics |
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| dynamic self structure achieved in adolescence |
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| getting married for the first time in one's forties |
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| Pavlov called this psychic secretion |
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| Classical conditioning has been applied to... |
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| Advertising, Fear or conditioning phobias, and falling in love |
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| Not associated with classical conditioning |
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| "BoBo" the clown experiment was an attempt to investigate... |
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| "Law of Effect" that is closely related to the learning approach |
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| A response outcome that increases the probability of response. |
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| A slot machine is on what type of reinforcement schedule |
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| going to dinner waiting for ever then having a great meal |
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| When an organism displays observationl learning(1) neurons are activated in the (2) |
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| 1. Hypothalimic and 2. frontal |
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| refers to learning taking place without reinforcement |
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| Associated with acquiring some fears and not others |
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| an operant conditioning application |
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| an extreme form of memory |
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| Damage to this impairs short term memory |
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| associated with human memory |
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| remembering Sept 11th where you were |
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| Distributed or spaced practiced |
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| taking advice and getting results from it |
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| encoding that leads to better recall |
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| memory storage that has the shortest duration but unlimited capacity |
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| unconcious emotional patterns relating to ourselves and others |
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| Tip of the tongue phenomenon |
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| having a name or word so close like its on the tip of your tongue |
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| having the same thing or doing the same thing when studying and taking the test |
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| motivated theory of forgetting |
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| Freud's view of repression |
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| when different things that have been studied are interfering with each other |
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| Confusing the origins of our memories |
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| occurs in courtroom eyewitness testimony |
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| Examines the contributions of nature and nurture on individual differences |
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| the soil which personality grows |
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| Proportion of variation attributed to genes |
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| things that relates to mating preferences among males |
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| Prefer younger mate, prefer physical attraction, and comfortable with casual sex |
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| lab rats experience an enriched cage environment shows.... |
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| increased synaptic connections and increased brain volume |
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| adolescents gravitate toward peers who have similar attitudes, interests, and etc. |
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| places the family first before the individual |
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| considered an area of cognitive psychology |
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| Problem solving, decision making, and language |
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| Representativeness heuristic |
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| Judging people on their looks |
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| tendency to think of objects only in terms of their normal uses |
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| Trial and error problem solving |
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| figuring something out until it works |
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| to say that language has a representative function |
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| saying the right thing at the right time |
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| deals with biological belief that language is an innate feature of the infant |
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| ability to objectify language as a process as well as a thing |
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| boys are most likely to experience the Oedipus complex during... |
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| one of the "Big Five" personality traits that suggest one is sociable |
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| taking out emotions on someone else |
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| External locus of Control |
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| Behavior outcomes left to chance |
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| fulfilling ones individual potential |
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| predict behavior some of the time |
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