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Intro Chapter
1. psychology
2. nature-nurture issue
3. natural selection
4. basic research
5. applied research
6. clinical psychology
7. psychiatry
Chapter 1 "Thinking Scientifically"
1. hindsight bias
2. critical thinking
3. theory
4. hypothesis
5. operational definition
6. replication
7. case study
8. survey
9. false consensus effect,
10. population
11. random sample
12. naturalistic observation
13. correlation coefficient
14. scatterplot
15. illusory correlation
16. experiment
17. placebo
18. double-blind procedure
19. placebo effect
20. experimental condition
21. control condition
22. random assignment
23. independent variable
24. dependent variable
25. confounding variable
26. mode
27. mean
28. median
29. range
30. standard deviation
31. statistical significance
Chapter 2 "The Biology of Mind"
Part A
1. biological psychology
2. neuron
3. dendrite
4. axon
5. myelin sheath
6. action potential
7. threshold
8. synapse
9. neurotransmitters
10. acetylcholine (ACh)
11. endorphins
12. nervous system
13. central nervous system (CNS)
14. peripheral nervous system (PNS)
15. nerves
16. sensory neurons
17. interneurons
18. motor neurons
19. somatic nervous system
20. autonomic nervous system
21. sympathetic nervous system
22. parasympathetic nervous system
23. reflex
24. neural networks
25. endocrine system
26. hormones
27. adrenal glands
28. pituitary gland
Part B
1. lesion
2. electroencephalogram (EEG)
3. CT (computed tomography) scan
4. PET (positron emission tomography)
scan
5. MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
6. brainstem
7. medulla
8. reticular formation
9. thalamus
10. cerebellum
11. limbic system
12. amygdala
13. hypothalamus
14. cerebral cortex
15. glial cells
16. frontal lobes
17. parietal lobes
18. occipital lobes
19. temporal lobes
20. motor cortex
21. sensory cortex
22. association areas
23. aphasia
24. Broca's area
25. Wernicke's area
26. plasticity
27. corpus callosum
28. split brain
Chapter 6 "Sensation & Perception"
Part A (Sensation)
1. sensation
2. perception
3. bottom-up processing
4. top-down processing
5. psychophysics
6. absolute threshold
7. signal detection theory
8. subliminal
9. difference threshold
10. Weber's law
11. sensory adaptation
12. selective attention
Part B (Sensation: vision)
1. transduction
2. wavelength
3. hue
4. intensity
5. pupil
6. iris
7. lens
8. accommodation
9. retina
10. acuity
11. nearsightedness
12. farsightedness
13. rods
14. cones
15. optic nerve
16. blind spot
17. fovea
18. feature detectors
19. parallel processing
20. Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory
21. opponent-process theory
22. color constancy
Part C (Sensation: other senses)
1. audition
2. frequency
3. pitch
4. middle ear
5. inner ear
6. cochlea
7. place theory
8. frequency theory
9. conduction hearing loss
10. sensorineural hearing loss
1. gate-control theory
2. sensory interaction
3. kinesthesis
4. vestibular sense
Part D (Perception)
1. visual capture
2. gestalt
3. figure-ground
4. grouping
5. depth perception
6. visual cliff
7. binocular cues
8. monocular cues
9. retinal disparity
10. convergence
11. phi phenomenon
12. perceptual constancy
13. perceptual adaptation
14. perceptual set
15. human factor psychologists
16. extrasensory perception (ESP)
17. parapsychology
Chapter 3 "States of Consciousness"
Part A
1. consciousness
2. inattentional blindness
3. change blindness
4. circadian rhythm
5. REM sleep
6. alpha waves
7. sleep
8. hallucinations
9. delta waves
10. insomnia
11. narcolepsy
12. sleep apnea
13. night terrors
14. dream
15. manifest content
16. latent content
17. REM rebound
Part B
1.
2.
3.
4.
hypnosis
posthypnotic amnesia
posthypnotic suggestion
dissociation
5. hidden observer
Part C
1. psychoactive drug
2. tolerance
3. withdrawal
4. physical dependence
5. psychological dependence
6. depressants
7. stimulants
8. hallucinogens
9. barbiturates
10. opiates
11. amphetamines
12. LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
13. THC
14. near-death experience
Chapter 7 "Learning"
Part A
1. associative learning
2. classical conditioning (Pavlovian
conditioning)
3. learning
4. unconditioned response (UCR)
5. unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
6. conditioned response (CR)
7. conditioned stimulus (CS)
8. acquisition
9. extinction
10. spontaneous recovery
11. generalization
12. discrimination
13. behaviorism
Part B
1. associative learning
2. operant conditioning
3. respondent behavior
4. operant behavior
5. law of effect
6. operant chamber (Skinner box)
7. learning
8. shaping
9. reinforcement
10. primary reinforcer
11. conditioned reinforcer (secondary
reinforcers)
12. continuous reinforcement
13. partial (intermittent) reinforcement
14. fixed-ratio schedule
15. variable-ratio schedule
16. fixed-interval schedule
17. variable-interval schedule
18. punishment
19. cognitive map
20. latent learning
21. overjustification effect
Part C
1. learning
2. observational learning
3. modeling
4. prosocial behavior
Chapter 4 "Nature, Nurture"
1. identical twins
2. fraternal twins
3. interaction
4. temperament
5. environment
6. evolutionary psychology
7. culture
8. norm
9. individualism
10. collectivism
11. role
12. gender role
13. gender identity
14. gender typing
15. social learning theory
Ch. 5 “Developing Through the Life
Span”
Part A
1. developmental psychology
2. zygote
3. embryo
4. fetus
5. teratogens
6. fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
7. rooting reflex
8. habituation
Part B
1. maturation
1. schema
2. assimilation
3. accommodation
4. cognition
5. sensorimotor stage
6. object permanence
7. preoperational stage
8. conservation
9. egocentrism
10. theory of mind
11. concrete operational stage
12. formal operational stage
13. stranger anxiety
14. attachment
15. critical period
16. imprinting
17. basic trust
18. self-concept
Part C
1. adolescence
2. puberty
3. primary sex characteristics
4. secondary sex characteristics
5. menarche
6. identity
7. intimacy
8. isolation
Part D
1. menopause
2. Alzheimer's disease
3. cross-sectional study
4. longitudinal study
5. crystallized intelligence
6. fluid intelligence
7. social clock
Chapter 8 "Memory"
Part A
1. memory
2. flashbulb memory
3. encoding
4. storage
5. retrieval
6. sensory memory
7. short-term memory
8. long-term memory
9. working memory
Part B
1. automatic processing
2. effortful processing
3. rehearsal
4. spacing effect
5. serial position effect
6. semantic encoding
7. acoustic encoding
8. visual encoding
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9. imagery
10. mnemonics
11. chunking
13. overconfidence
14. framing
15. belief bias
16. belief perseverance
Part C
1. iconic memory
2. echoic memory
3. long-term potentiation (LTP)
4. amnesia
5. implicit memory
6. explicit memory
7. hippocampus
8. procedural memory
9. episodic memory
Part B
1. phoneme
2. morpheme
3. grammar
4. semantics
5. syntax
6. babbling stage
7. one-word stage
8. two-word stage
9. telegraphic speech
10. linguistic relativity
Part D
1. recall
2. recognition
3. relearning
4. priming
5. deja vu
6. mood congruent memory
Part E
1. proactive interference
2. retroactive interference
3. repression
4. misinformation effect
5. source amnesia
Chapter 9 "Thinking and Language"
Part A
1. cognition
2. concept
3. prototype
4. algorithm
5. heuristic
6. insight
7. confirmation bias
8. fixation
9. mental set
10. functional fixedness
11. representativeness heuristic
12. availability heuristic
Chapter 10 " Intelligence"
Part A
1. intelligence test
2. intelligence
3. factor analysis
4. general intelligence (g)
5. savant syndrome
6. emotional intelligence
Part B
1. mental age
2. Stanford-Binet
3. intelligence quotient (IQ)
4. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
(WAIS)
5. aptitude test
6. achievement test
7. standardization
8. normal curve
9. reliability
10. validity
11. content validity
12. criterion
13. predictive validity
14. mental retardation
15. Down syndrome
16. Creativity
Chapter 11 " Motivation and Work"
Part A
1. motivation
2. instinct
3. drive-reduction theory
4. homeostasis
5. incentive
6. hierarchy of needs
Part B
1. glucose
2. set point
3. basal metabolic rate
4. anorexia nervosa
5. bulimia nervosa
Part C
1. achievement motivation
2. intrinsic motivation
3. extrinsic motivation
4. industrial/organizational psychology
5. task leadership
6. social leadership
7. Theory X
8. Theory Y
Chapter 12 "Emotion and Stress"
Part A
1. emotion
2. James-Lange theory
3. Cannon-Bard theory
4. two-factor theory
Part B
1. polygraph
2. catharsis
3. feel-good, do-good phenomenon
4. subjective well-being
5. adaptation-level phenomenon
6. relative deprivation
Part C
1. stress
2. general adaptation syndrome (GAS)
3. health psychology
4. behavioral medicine
5. burnout
6. coronary heart disease
7. Type A
8. Type B
9. psychophysiological illness
10. lymphocytes
11. aerobic exercise
12. biofeedback
13. complimentary and alternative medicine
Chapter 13 "Personality"
Part A
1. personality
2. free association
3. psychoanalysis
4. unconscious
5. preconscious
6. id
7. ego
8. superego
9. psychosexual stages
10. Oedipus complex
11. identification
12. fixation
13. defense mechanisms
14. repression
15. regression
16. reaction formation
17. projection
18. rationalization
19. displacement
20. sublimation
21. projective test
22. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
23. Rorschach inkblot test
24. collective unconscious
Part B
1. trait
2. personality inventory
3. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory (MMPI)
4. empirically derived test
Part C
1. self-actualization
2. unconditional positive regard
3. self-concept
4. self-esteem
5. self-serving bias
6. individualism
7. collectivism
Part D
1. reciprocal determinism
2. personal control
3. external locus of control
4. internal locus of control
5. learned helplessness
6. positive psychology
Chapter 14 "Psychological Disorders"
Part A
1. psychological disorder
2. medical model
3. bio-psycho-social perspective
4. DSM-IV
5. neurotic disorder
6. psychotic disorder
Part B
1. anxiety disorders
2. generalized anxiety disorder
3. panic disorder
4. phobia
5. obsessive-compulsive disorder
Part C
1. dissociative disorders
2. dissociative identity disorder
3. personality disorders
4. antisocial personality disorder
Part D
1. mood disorders
2. major depressive disorder
3. manic episode
4. bipolar disorder
5. schizophrenia
6. delusions
Chapter 15 "Therapy"
Part A
1. psychotherapy
2. eclectic approach
3. psychoanalysis
4. resistance
5. interpretation
6. transference
7. client-centered therapy
8. active listening
9. behavior therapy
10. counter-conditioning
11. systematic desensitization
12. aversive conditioning
13. token economy
14. cognitive therapy
15. cognitive-behavior therapy
16. family therapy
Part B
1. regression toward the mean
2. meta-analysis
1. psychopharmacology
2. lithium
3. electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
4. psychosurgery
5. lobotomy
Chapter 16 "Social Psychology"
Part A
1. social psychology
2. attribution theory
3. fundamental attribution error
4. attitude
5. foot-in-the-door phenomenon
6. cognitive-dissonance theory
Part B
1. conformity
2. normative social influence
3. informational social influence
4. social facilitation
5. social loafing
6. deindividuation
7. group polarization
8. groupthink
9. self-fulfilling prophecy
Part C
1. prejudice
2. stereotype
3. self-fulfilling prophecy
4. ingroup
5. outgroup
6. ingroup bias
7. scapegoat theory
8. just-world phenomenon
9. aggression
10. frustration-aggression principle
11. conflict
12. social trap
13. mere exposure effect
14. passionate love
15. companionate love
16. equity
17. self-disclosure
18. altruism
19. bystander effect
20. social exchange theory
21. superordinate goals
22. ethnocentrism