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May 25, 2023 by ktangen

Terms HS

 

A

a priori.

absolute refractory period

abstract intelligence

abstract reasoning

abstract thought

abstraction

accessibility

accommodation

acetylcholine

acronym

acrostic

act

act psychology

adaptive act

affect

affective

agape.

aim

anal stage

anima

animal maze

In anthropomorphism

anxietyaphasia

apperception

apperceptive mass

approach-approach

approach-avoidance

archetypes

Army Alpha & Beta

associated reflex

association

atoms

avoidance-avoidance

activating event

active touch

actor-observer error

actual self

acute stress

adjustment disorders

Adler’s individual psychology

aerial perspective

agape

aggression-frustration hypothesis

agnosia

ah-ha phenomenon

alcohol

algorithms

all-or-none law

Alzheimer’s disease

amphetamines

amplification

amygdala

anal stage

analogical transfer

analogies

anger

anima

feminine side of male

animus

masculine side of female

antecedent condition

anterior cingulated cortex

anterograde amnesia

anti-social

anxiety disorders

aphasia

approach gradient

approach-approach conflict

approach-avoidance conflict

apraxia

archetype

ascending auditory pathway

associations

attention

attenuation reflex

attitudinal values

attraction

attraction factors (proximity, similarity, matching hypothesis)

attribution effect

autobiographical memory

autonomic nervous system (ANS)

autonomy vs shame-doubt: will

availability (know)

avoid or reduce

avoidance gradient

avoidance-avoidance conflict

axon

axon hillock = connect soma to anon

axon terminal

 

B

B motives

barriers

basic anxiety

becoming

beliefs

Bell -Magendie law

bonds

boundaries

brain

Broca ‘s area

Babinski’s reflex

backward chaining

backward conditioning

Baddeley’s working memory model

Bandura’s observational learning

Barnum effect

Beck’s automatic thoughts

behavior

behavior modification

behavior potential

behaviorism

belief system

bell-shaped curve

Berkeley’s spiritual monism

Betz cells

binocular cues

bipolar

birth order

bits (chunks)

bitter

bizarre images

blastula

blocking

bottom-up processing

Bowman’s glands (make nasal secretions)

brain

brightness contrast

Brooks matrix

bystander effect

 

C

caffeine tremors

cardinal trait

castration anxiety

castration anxiety

catastrophism

categorical imperative

causality

character

choleric

Christianity

classical conditioning

client-centered therapy

cognitive

collective unconscious

common sense

compensation

complexes

compounds

conative

concrete operations

conditioned response

conditioned stimulus

conscience

conscious

conservation

constructs

contiguity

continuity

correlation

cosmological questions

creative synthesis

CVC

CAT scan

categorization

category search model

causality = relative causality

CCC (consonant-consonant-consonant)

central nervous system (CNS)

cerebral hemispheres

chaining

chance

chemical senses

Chinese zodiac

cilia

circadian rhythm

classic amnesia syndrome

classical conditioning

cleavage

client-centered therapy

clustering

cochlea

coding

cognitive bias

cognitive development

cognitive differentiation

cognitive dissonance

cognitive maps

cognitive mediation

collective unconscious

color blindness

color perception

coma

common sense theory of emotion

common trait

compensation

complete memory

concept

concrete operational stage

concrete thinking

conditioned response

conditioned stimulus

cones

confabulation

confirmation bias

confirmation vs falsification

conflict

conformity

congruence

conscience = what you should not do

conscious

consciousness

conservation

consolidation

consolidation of memories

contiguity

continuous reinforcement

conversion disorders

corpus collosum

counseling

cranial nerves

cranioscopy

creativity

cryptomnesia

crystallins

cue

cue confusion

cueing effect

 

D

D motives

Dasein

death instincts

defense mechanisms

dependent variables

derived attention

discrimination

displacement

drive

dualism

duration

dynamic psychology

dynamic stereotype

dynamism

decay theory of forgetting

deductive reasoning

defense mechanisms

Deja Vu

Delboeuf illusion

deliberate learning

delusional disorders

delusions

dementia

dendrite

denial

dependence

depolarization

depression

Descartes’ dualism

desensitization

diffusion of responsibility

discovery learning

disorganized schizophrenia

displacement

dissociative symptoms

distance

distributed practice

disturbed thinking

Dollard & Miller’s types of conflict

don’t forget” strategy

dopamine

double approach-avoidance conflict

Dr. Zilstein experiment

dream analysis

dreams

drive

drives

drug abuse

drug addiction

dualism

dyssomnia

 

E

egoi

ego-ideal

eigenwelt

electrophorus

Elextra complex

emotional core

empiricism

equipotentiality

eros

evolution

experimental ethics

experimental neurosis

explusive

extinction

extripation

eating disorders

Ebbinghaus’ study of memory

ecstasy (MDMA)

edge detection

EEG

effect

ego

ego identity vs role confusion: fidelity

ego integrity vs despair: wisdom

elaboration mnemonic

elicited response

Ellis’ ABC theory of personality

emblems

embryonic period

emotional consequence

emotional development

emotional distinctiveness

emotions

empiricism

empty gap

encoding

encoding specificity principle

epilepsy

episodic memory

Erikson’s stages of development

every day memory

existential anxiety

existentialism

expectancy

exploding head syndrome

extinction

extroversion

 

F

fatigue

feedback

field theory

fixation

fixed interval

fixed ratio

forgetting

form

frame

functionalism

face recognition

fact

fallopian tubes

false memories

falsification

family constellation

fear

feature comparison models

fencing reflex (tonic neck)

fertilization

fiction

fictional finalism

figure & ground

filiform

fimbria

finalism

fixation

fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement

fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement

flavor

Flourens’ brain localization

forebrain

forgetting

forgetting curve

formal operational stage

formal operations

forward chaining

frame

framing

Frankl’s existentialism

free recall

Freudian slips

Freud’s psychoanalysis

Freud’s psychosocial stages

frontal lobe

functional analysis

functional disorders

functional fixedness

fundamental attribution error

fungiform

 

G

genital

Gestalt psychology

ground of existence]

group mind

GABA

Gall

Galton’s vividness of memories

galvanic skin response (GSR)

generalization

genetic predisposition

genital stage

germinal period

Gestalt

gestures

glove disorder

glutamate

gradient

gradient of approach

grandiose

grasping reflex

gustation (taste)

 

H

habit

hedonism

here and now

Hering-Breuer reflex

heuristic

hodos

hormic psychology

human reflexology

humors

hypotheses

Hypothetico-Deductive

habit

habituation

hallucination

halo

handwriting analysis

hangovers

happiness

haptic perception

head injuries

Heinz dilemma

Helmholtz

heuristic

higher criterion

higher order conditioning

hindbrain = regulating heart, etc.

hippocampus

histamine

HM’s lobotomy

Hobbes’ physical monism

homeostasis

homunculus

horizontal-vertical illusion

Horney’s tyranny of should

humanism

hyper-alert

hyper-intention

hyper-reflection

hypersomnia (excessive sleepiness)

 

 

I

id

ideas

identification

identify

imageless thought

impressions

impulse

incompatible responses

independent variables

individual difference

inferiority

innate ideas

insight

instincts

intelligence

intelligence quotient

intelligence ratio

intensity

interpersonal fields

intervening variables

introspection

involuntary attention

IQ

irradition

Islam

isomorphism

iconic memory

id

ideal self

identification

identify crisis

illusions

imagery

implicit memory

impulse control

incentive

incidental learning

incompatible response

incubation

individual psychology

inductive reasoning

industry vs inferiority: competence

infantile amnesia

infantile reflexes

inference

inferior mirage

inferiority complex

information processing

initiative vs guilt: purpose

inner ear

insanity

insight

instrumental conditioning:

intellectual development

interactive images

interference

interposition (occlusion)

interrupted tasks

inter-stimulus interval

interval

interval scale

introversion

intuition

involuntary response

IQ

islands of memory

 

J

James-Lange theory

Jimmy

jnd

jackpots

Jamais Vu

James-Lange theory of emotion

Jung’s collective unconscious

just-world hypothesis

 

K

kinetic cues

Kohlberg’s stages of moral reasoning

Korsakoff’s syndrome

 

L

latency

Law of Disuse

Law of Effect

Law of Exercise

Law of Readiness

laws

laws of association

life instincts

life space

Little Albert

locomotion

loneliness

labels

language development

latency

latency stage

latent inhibition

learned helplessness

lens

levels of measurement

lexical retrieval

LGN

life lie

linear perspective

Little Albert experiment

lobotomy

localization

locus of control

logotherapy

love

 

M

masculine protest
mass action
materialism
matter
mechanical intelligence
melancholic
memory
mental chemistry
mental mechanics
mental orthopedics
mental set
mental tests
metaphysics
mind
mitwelt
modeling
models
monad
monism
moral anxiety
Morgan’s cannon
motion
motor reflexes
movement

M1

magic number 7

magnitude mechanisms

mandala

manic

mapping

marijuana

materialism

May’s existentialism

melatonin

memories

memory

memory disorders

memory loss

mental representation

mental set

mentalism

method of loci

micro-expressions

middle ear

Milgrim’s study of obedience

Miller’s magic number seven

mind-body problem

mirror drawing

mnemonics

models

monism

monocular cues

mood

mood disorders

moral development

Moro reflex

morula

motivation

motor cortex

MRI scan

Muller-Lyer illusion

myasthenia gravis

myelin sheath (Schwann cells)

Myers-Briggs mood test

 

N

nativism
natural selection
need hierarchy
needs
negative punishment
negative reinforcement
nihlism
nondirective therapy
nonsense words

naïve mnemonics

narcissism

narcolepsy

negative identity

negative punishment
negative symptoms

negative reinforcement

negativism

neonate

neurons

neuro-receptors

neuroses

neurotransmitter

nicotine

nicotinic receptors

nine dot problem

nodes of ranvier

nominal

nominal scale

nondirective therapy

nonsense words

norepinephrine

normal curve

NREM

nystagmus

 

O

object
object substitution
Oedipus complex
one-shot learning
ophthalmoscope
oral
overlearning

object recognition

object relations

object substitution

observation

observational learning

obsessive-compulsive

occipital lobe

odds

Oedipal stage

Oedipus complex

off cells

olfaction (smell)

on cells

operant

operant conditioning

operational definition

opiates

oral stage

ordinal scale

organ inferiorities

organic disorders

orthogonal

ossicular chain

outer ear

outer self

oval window

overcompensating

overlearning

ovum (female egg)

 

P

parallelism
parataxic
penis envy
persona
personal unconscious
personification
phallic
phi phenomenon
phila
phlegmatic
phrenology
pineal gland
pleasure principle
positive punishment
positive reinforcement
postulates
pragmatism
pragnanz
pre-conscious
preoperational
primary process
principles
programmed instruction
projection
proprioceptive stimuli
protaxic
proximity
psyche
psychic secretions
psychosexual stages
punishment
purposeful behaviorism
puzzle-box
Pythagorean theorem

pain

parachute reflex

paradoxical cold

paranoid

parasympathetic

parietal lobe

Parkinson’s disease

partial recognition

partially reinforced behavior

passive touch

Pavlov’s classical conditioning

peg system

penis envy

peptides

peripheral nervous system (PNS)

person schema

persona

personal unconscious

personal validation fallacy

PET scan

phallic stage

phobias

phonological loop

phrenology

physical attractiveness

physical monism

physiological zero

Piaget’s stages of cognitive development

pineal gland

placebo

Pollyanna effect

positive punishment

positive regard

positive reinforcement

positive symptoms

positron emission tomography (PET)

post-traumatic stress

practical memory

practice effects

pre-coding

premotor cortex

preoperational stage

pressure

primary distinctiveness

primary drives

primary process

primary rewards

priming

primitive streak

primordial images

principles of efficiency

proactive interference

problem solving

procedural memory

projection

projection area

prospective memory

prototypical items

psychic birth

psychic secretion

psychoanalysis

psychodynamic

psychotic disorders

punishment

 

 

Q

quality

 

R

rationalism
rationalization
reaction formation
reality anxiety
reality principle
reason
recall
recollection
regions
regression
reminiscence
resemblance
retention curve
retentive

radiation-fortress problem

random assignment

random selection

ratio scale

rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT)

rationalism

rationalization

reaction formation

real self

reality principle

recall

recency effect

receptive field

receptor cell

reciprocal determinism

recognition

recollection

reduction mnemonic

reflex

reflexology

refraction

refractory period

regression

rehearsal

rehearsed mnemonic

reincarnation

reinforcement

reinforcement value

relative brightness

relative refractory period

relative size

REM

remember

replication

repression

response

responsibility

restless legs syndrome (RLS)

retinal disparity

retinitis pigmentosa

retrieval

retroactive interference

retrograde amnesia

reuptake

reward

robust = works on wide range of tasks

rods

Rogers’ unconditional positive regard

rooting reflex

Rorschach’s ink blot test

rotating disc

Rotter’s locus of control

round window

rule of thumb

Rumplestiltskin effect

 

S

sanguine
savings
scalloped
schedules (reinforcement)
secondary attention
secondary process
self
self as knower
self as known
self-actualization
self-awareness
self-reinforcement
sensorimotor
sentiment
shadow
sidetracking
skepticism
Skinner box
social intelligence
S-O-R
soul
span of apprehension
specific response relation
Spencer-Bain principle
spirit
spontaneous recovery
spread of effect
S-R
stamped in
stamped out
state variables
stereotypes
stimulus generalization
stoicism
stream of consciousness
structuralism
style of life
subvocalized speech
superego
syntaxic

salty

sand tray

savings = effort saved

schedules of reinforcement

schema

schizophrenia

scientific method

scripts

secondary distinctiveness

secondary drives

secondary rewards

secret self

self concept

self contract

self schema

self-concept

self-control therapy

self-deception

self-effacing bias

self-regulation

self-soothers

self-talk

self-terminating search

semantic memory

semantic network model

semicircular canals

sensorimotor stage

serial position effect

serial recall

serotonin

sex

shadow

shaping

sidetracked

similarity

simultaneous conditioning

size

skin mapping

Skinner’s operant conditioning

sleep apnea

sleep disorders

sleep phase

sleep routine

sleep talking

sleep terror

sleepwalking

social adjustment

social animals

social cognition

social influence

social interest

social learning theory

social network

soma = cell body

soul

sounds like

sour

source amnesia

sparse encoding

spatial summation

speech recognition

sperm

spiritual monism

spontaneous recovery

spreading activation model

stages of sleep

starts with the letter

state dependent learning

steps

stereocilia

stereopsis

stimuli

stimulus generalization

stonewalling

stress

stress disorders

Stroop effect

structuralism

stupidity-misery syndrome

style of life

subjective

sucking reflex

sucrose = glucose & fructose

suicide

summation

superego

superior mirage

superiority complex

super-threshold stimulus

suppression

surprise

sweet

sympathetic nervous system

synapse

synaptic cleft

synaptic vesicles

synchronicity = meaningful coincidences

synthesis

systematic desensitization

 

T

tabula rasa

temperament

tension

theory

thought elements

threshold

thrownness

topology

tactile sensations

target detection

target identification

taste buds

taste cell

taste pore

technical mnemonic

telegraphic speech

temperature

temporal lobe

temporal summation

theory

therapy

thinking

threshold

tip of the tongue phenomenon

tongue

tonotopic mapping

top-down processing

total time hypothesis

touch

trait theory

transduction

transfer of training

transformational grammar

transient global amnesia

translation schemes

transpersonal = extends across persons

trial and error learning

triangulation

tridimentional theory

trust vs distrust: hope

tunnel vision

tympanic membrane

type A (Type I)

type B (Type II)

 

U

umani (savory)

umbilical cord

unconditional regard

unconditioned response

unconditioned stimulus

unconscious

undifferentiated schizophrenia

universities

unwelt

u-shaped curve

 

V

vagina

valence

values clarification

variable interval

variable ratio

variables

vectors

ventricles

vibratuncles

vision

viso-spatial memory

visual dead spot

visualization

visuo-spatial sketchpad

volition

volley theory

voluntary behavior

Von Restorff effect

 

W

warm up

Watson’s classical conditioning

Weber’s law

well-defined problem

Weltanschaung

will

working memory

Wundt’s founding of psychology

 

XYZ

Yerkes-Dobson law

Zeigarnik effect

zygote = fertilized egg

 

 

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