Final Review

The type of memory which lasts from a few seconds to up to a few minutes.

Mood disorder involving a cycle of mood changes from a low mood to mania.

Only a certain amount of information can be processed by the nervous system at one time.

The state in which an individual is almost asleep.

The process of aging occurs due to the accumulation of these unstable molecules in the body.

Brief bursts of high frequency brain waves found only during Stage 2 sleep.

Anxiety disorder involving a persistent excessive or irrational fear of an object or situation.

A child is able to choose his own truck from a toy box full of trucks.

Frameworks of our basic ideas and preconceptions about people, objects, and situations are

People are free to choose for themselves the ways in which they develop.

In Pavlov's classic experiment, the conditioned stimulus was the...

A person experiences a combination of schizophrenic and mood disorder symptoms.

Unrealistic preoccupation with health and/or the fear that one has a serious disease.

At this level of consciousness, ideas are not in our direct awareness, but can be recalled.

Performance goals are typically motivated by these outside or environmental rewards.

A false belief held by an individual.

A person who believes that behavior is shaped by rewards and punishments would be considered a

Individual experiences a change in or loss of functioning in a body part with no explanation.

Emotions often come in pairs, with one emotion being followed by its opposite.

Stage of concern about one’s own individual beliefs and standards of right and wrong.

The third stage of grief.

Understanding that equal amounts of sand, poured into different containers , are still equal.

Widely accepted societal expectations about how males and females should behave, dress, etc.

Using hypnosis or free association, this psychoanalyst accessed unconscious feelings.

All of the following are stages of the General Adaptation Syndrome except...

He divided personality development into 8 stages, in which individuals solve a major crisis.

According to Freud, the ego operates on the basis of the......

This gland becomes active during periods of anger or fear.

A double-blind study is sometimes needed because researchers...

All of the following describe elements of the speech pattern “motherese” EXCEPT.....

When an individual realizes that he/she is dreaming while it is happening it is called....

Therapist will try to help their clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.

The instinctual need to touch and be touched by something soft is known as......

The chemical(s) used to send messages across synapses is/are......

The transfer of anger from the actual source to some innocent person or object.

In an experiment, the group in which a condition being studied is NOT present is the

People with personality disorders suffer from impairments in their social or work life due to

Psychological disorders are diagnosed based on whether or not his or her behavior....

The long, thin structure which carries information away from the cell body of a neuron is/are

The type of memory which includes specific events from our experiences.

The minimum amount of difference that can be detected between two stimuli is called....

All of the following are means of measuring emotional states in human beings except...

The difference between the images taken in by the two eyes is known as......

Identify the independent variable: "students will earn higher grades if they listen to music"

The body’s reaction to perceived pressures and threats from the environment.

All of the following are perceptual constancies.

Therapy to reduce guilt and anxiety by making them aware of unconscious thoughts and feelings.

Tendency to think of an object as useful only for it’s typical purpose.

This theory stresses the social and cultural influences on personality.

The structure in the eye which focuses light by bending or changing thickness.