Download Critical Psych Terms

Key Points
Behavioral therapy
MMPI
Afferent/efferent (neural transmission)
Object permanence
Cognitive dissonance
Piaget
Humanistic therapy
Somatoform disorders
Latent learning
Thorazine
Dream analysis
Erikson
Free association
Kohlberg
Validity and reliability
Longitudinal v. cross-sectional studies
Proactive interference
Oedipal complex
Recessive/dominant genes
Aggression
Asch line experiment
Hubel and Weisel
OCD
Endorphins
Agoraphobia
Dissociative disorders
Parapsychology (ESP)
JND
Shaping
Chomsky
Harlow’s monkeys
Overgeneralization (grammar)
Projection
Rescorla’s contingency theory
PET, EEG, MRI, CAT
Psychoanalysis
Rational emotive therapy (RET)
Avoidance-approach
Functional fixedness
IQ scores and the normal curve
Psychosexual stages
Primary effect (serial positioning)
Left and right brain
Ach
Rods and cones
Semicircular canals
Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas
REM and dreaming
Attraction
Transference
Placebo
Freud
Group polarization
Twin studies
Hypnosis and the hidden observer
Schizophrenia
Pavlov
Phonemes
Id, ego, superego
Short-term memory
Unconditional positive regard
Hippocampus
Monocular depth cues
Color blindness
Type A/type B
Carl Rogers
Antisocial personality disorder
Displacement
Homeostasis
Discrimination (classical conditioning)
Terminal buttons
All-or-none response
Gestalt therapy
Gestalt theory of perception
Morphemes
Whorf, linguistic relativity
Selective attention
Middle and inner ear
Temporal, frontal, occipital, parietal
Habituation
Anxiety disorders
Milgram’s experiment
Psychosurgery
Alcohol effects on CNS
Schachter-Singer experiment
Neurotransmitters
Stranger anxiety
Hawthorne effect
APA ethics
Lithium
Family and group therapy
Reinforcers
Cerebellum
Medulla
Mean, median, mode
Mood disorders
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Extinction
Anorexia
Visual cliff experiment
Sublimation
TAT and Rorschach
Skinner
Experimental method
Amygdala
Stanford-Binet
Limbic system
Thalamus
Hypothalamus