Exam 17: Psychology Appendix

Piaget's concepts of assimilation and accommodation have some similarities to the learning principles of:

Stimuli reliably paired with drug administration often elicit effects _____ the drug;at a systems level,this is an example of _____.

_____ raised infant rhesus monkeys in social isolation for the first 6 months of their lives.Most of them exhibited severely disturbed behavior consistent with the _____ phase of general adaptation syndrome.

In one study,participants randomly assigned to a group that received testosterone were less sensitive to facial threat cues than were a control group who did not receive testosterone.This research suggests a _____ between testosterone and sensitivity to threat cues.

In psychoanalysis,Jerry's therapist interprets that Jerry's passion for his work might stem from an unfulfilled sex drive.Initially,Jerry vehemently opposes this interpretation.This defense mechanism is termed _____,and Jerry's opposition to the interpretation is termed _____.

The dangers associated with labeling persons with having a mental disorder is related to the social psychology phenomenon of:

Approach motivation MOST closely corresponds to:

In recent years,transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)has been used therapeutically to treat _____.In research settings,unlike functional magnetic resonance imaging,it has the ability to _____.

Individuals in Kohlberg's _____ stage of moral development would be MOST susceptible to _____.

_____ tried using introspection to measure _____ experiences.

The cephalocaudal and proximodistal rules of development are MOST correlated with changes in the structure and function of the:

Common assays used to determine if infants are attending to objects study a form of:

There exists a _____ between social status and immune functioning;a likely variable responsible for this finding is _____.

Diet is to _____ as self-esteem is to _____.

A person administering a polygraph test who sets the machine to _____ sensitivity is adopting a _____ decision-making strategy and is likely to make a large number of _____.

A person with a highly reactive behavioral inhibition system would be MOST sensitive to _____ reinforcers.

Ellie is a Girl Scout who goes door to door selling cookies.She finds that,by asking people to buy one box of cookies so that she can go on a field trip,they often buy more when she later tells them that she is competing with other scouts to win an even larger trip.On average,Ellie finds that about 25% of people buy more than one box of cookies,although she has no real way of predicting which customers will purchase a larger order.Ellie is using the _____ sales technique and her behavior is reinforced according to a _____-ratio schedule.

A(n)_____ psychologist might BEST explain why sensory adaptation is a useful process.

Existential psychologists believe that free choices provoke anxiety or _____ associated with the meaning of life and that personality arises from arriving at decisions to reduce this anxiety.A behavioral psychologist might reinterpret this theory as behavior that is maintained by _____,and social psychologists might reinterpret this theory in terms of _____.

Postpartum depression is associated with _____ disturbances in the stress-response system ultimately regulated by the _____.