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1. Ablation Answer: A surgically induced brain lesion.
2. Absolute refractory period Answer: The period that follows the onset of an action potential.
During this period, a nerve impulse cannot be initiated
3. Absolute threshold Answer: The minimum of stimulus energy needed to activate a sensory
system.
4. Accommodation Answer: A principle of Piaget's theory of cognitive development. It occurs when
cognitive structures are modified because new information or new experiences do not fit into existing
cognitive structures.
5. Acetylcholine Answer: A neurotransmitter found in both central and peripheral nervous systems
linked to Alzheimer's disease and used to transmit nerve impulses to the muscles, respectively.
6. Acrophobia Answer: A specific phobia that is an irrational fear of heights.
7. ACT model (Adaptive Control of Thought) Answer: A model that describes
memory in terms of proce- dural and declarative memory.
8. Actor-observer effect Answer: The tendency of actors to see observer behavior as due to
external factors (situ- ational factors) and the tendency of observers to attribute actors' behaviors to
internal characteristics (dispositional characteristics).
9. Adrenaline Answer: A hormone that increases energy available for "fight or flight" reactions
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(also known as epineph- rine).
10. Afterimages Answer: A visual sensation that appears after prolonged or intense
exposure to a stimulus.
11. Agnosia Answer: Impairments in perceptual recognition.
12. Agoraphobia Answer: An irrational fear of being in places or situations where escape
might be diflcult.
13. All-or-none law Answer: A law about nerve impulses stating that when depolarization
reaches the critical threshold (-50 millivolts) the neuron is going to fire, each time, every time.
14. Alternate-form method Answer: In psychometrics, it is the method of using two or
more ditterent forms of a test to determine the reliability of a particular test.
15. Altruism Answer: A form of helping behavior where the person's intent is to benefit someone
else at some cost to him- or herself.
16. Amnesia Answer: A dissociative disorder where individuals are unable to recall past
experience, but this inability is not due to a neurological disorder.
17. Analogy of inoculation Answer: McGuire's analogy that people can be
psychologically inoculated against the "attack" of persuasive communications by first exposing
them to a weakened attack.
18. Analyses of Variance (anovas) Answer: A statistical method to compare the
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means of more than two groups by comparing the between-group variance to the within-group
variance.
GRE Psychology
Subject Test
Comprehensive
Questions
(Frequently
Tested)with
Verified Answers
Graded A+
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1. Ablation Answer: A surgically induced brain lesion.
2. Absolute refractory period Answer: The period that follows the onset of an action potential.
During this period, a nerve impulse cannot be initiated
3. Absolute threshold Answer: The minimum of stimulus energy needed to activate a sensory
system.
4. Accommodation Answer: A principle of Piaget's theory of cognitive development. It occurs when
cognitive structures are modified because new information or new experiences do not fit into existing
cognitive structures.
5. Acetylcholine Answer: A neurotransmitter found in both central and peripheral nervous systems
linked to Alzheimer's disease and used to transmit nerve impulses to the muscles, respectively.
6. Acrophobia Answer: A specific phobia that is an irrational fear of heights.
7. ACT model (Adaptive Control of Thought) Answer: A model that describes
memory in terms of proce- dural and declarative memory.
8. Actor-observer effect Answer: The tendency of actors to see observer behavior as due to
external factors (situ- ational factors) and the tendency of observers to attribute actors' behaviors to
internal characteristics (dispositional characteristics).
9. Adrenaline Answer: A hormone that increases energy available for "fight or flight" reactions
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(also known as epineph- rine).
10. Afterimages Answer: A visual sensation that appears after prolonged or intense
exposure to a stimulus.
11. Agnosia Answer: Impairments in perceptual recognition.
12. Agoraphobia Answer: An irrational fear of being in places or situations where escape
might be diflcult.
13. All-or-none law Answer: A law about nerve impulses stating that when depolarization
reaches the critical threshold (-50 millivolts) the neuron is going to fire, each time, every time.
14. Alternate-form method Answer: In psychometrics, it is the method of using two or
more ditterent forms of a test to determine the reliability of a particular test.
15. Altruism Answer: A form of helping behavior where the person's intent is to benefit someone
else at some cost to him- or herself.
16. Amnesia Answer: A dissociative disorder where individuals are unable to recall past
experience, but this inability is not due to a neurological disorder.
17. Analogy of inoculation Answer: McGuire's analogy that people can be
psychologically inoculated against the "attack" of persuasive communications by first exposing
them to a weakened attack.
18. Analyses of Variance (anovas) Answer: A statistical method to compare the
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means of more than two groups by comparing the between-group variance to the within-group
variance.
