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expressed negative emotion - correct answer associated with increased immune function inhibited negative emotion - correct answer associated with decreased immune functioning medial amygdala - correct answer brain structure that inhibits parental behavior in rodents sociotechnical principle - correct answer approach to complex organizational work design that recognizes the interaction between people and technology in workplaces. The term also refers to the interaction between society's complex infrastructures and human behaviour. high self-monitor - correct answer People who closely monitor themselves and often behave in a manner that is highly responsive to social cues and their situational context. low self-monitor - correct answer people who tend to exhibit expressive controls congruent with their own internal states; i.e. beliefs, attitudes, anddispositions regardless of social circumstance; often less observant of social context and consider expressing a self-presentation dissimilar from their internal states as a falsehood and undesirable.[2] Kathryn Bock - correct answer did research that shows that specific syntactic constructions can prime later constructions; demonstrated by people using the same sentence structures in later sentences that they heard in earlier sentences semantics - correct answer tells about the meaning in a language, code, or other form of representation; all about the meaning. pragmatics - correct answer concerned with bridging the explanatory gap between sentence meaning and speaker's meaning; all about use. syntax - correct answer the study of the rules, or "patterned relations", that govern the way words combine to form phrases and phrases combine to form sentences; all about form. positively accelerated function - correct answer learning increases more dramatically as time goes on than it did at the beginning (or continues to increase exponentially) negatively accelerated function - correct answer learning curve is steeper at the beginning, then levels off (learning occurs more at the beginning) activational hormones - correct answer gonadal hormones that can act upon the brains of adult animals to alter the frequency or intensity (but not the form) of their sexual behavior orbitofrontal cortex - correct answer lesion here would affect memory (procedural still intact but episodic and semantic memory disrupted) extinction - correct answer the process of withholding all reinforcements after responses class inclusion - correct answer The understanding, more advanced than simple classification, that some classes or sets of objects are also sub-sets of a larger class. (E.g. there is a class of objects called dogs. There is also a class called animals. But all dogs are also animals, so the class of animals includes that of dogs) sociometric technique - correct answer methods that qualitatively measure aspects of social relationships, such as social acceptance (i.e., how much an individual is liked by peers) and social status (i.e., child's social standing in comparison to peers). accommodation - correct answer oculomotor cue for depth perception; kinesthetic sensations of the contracting and relaxing ciliary muscles (intraocular muscles) is sent to the visual cortex where it is used for interpreting distance/depth. instrumental aggression - correct answer harmful behavior engaged in without provocation to obtain an outcome or coerce others. pheromones - correct answer receptors in the vomeronasal organ control behavioral responses to ________ self-efficacy - correct answer (Albert Bandura) people are likely to engage in activities to the extent that they perceive themselves to be competent at those activities; learners will be more likely to attempt, to persevere, and to be successful at tasks at which they have a sense of this empirical data - correct answer when psychology first emerged as a separate discipline, it was distinguished from philosophy primarily by its emphasis on __________ agnoist - correct answer drugs that can affect synaptic transmission by increasing neurotransmitter release Passive gene-environment correlation - correct answer refers to the association between the genotype a child inherits from her parents and the environment in which the child is raised Evocative (or reactive) gene-environment correlation - correct answer happens when an individual's (heritable) behavior evokes an environmental response. Active gene-environment correlation - correct answer occurs when an individual possesses a heritable propensity to select environmental exposure. left superior temporal gyrus - correct answer (adjacent to the auditory cortex), brain injury here results in deficits characterized by grammatical speech but poor language comprehension Jerome Kagan - correct answer found that some young children have stronger physiological reactions to new situations than others; children with these stronger physiological reactions are also more likely than other children to display shyness availability heuristic - correct answer involves making judgements about frequencies, based on the availability of information (i.e. the ease of which it comes to mind). For example; if you have just been robbed, this information is strongly available to you; you'll most likely be thinking about it more than on other days when you were not robbed. As a result, you might judge the frequency of robberies in your local area as higher. representativeness heuristic - correct answer involves making a judgement on whether a sample X is representative of a population Y, and is relevant for categorical judgment. For example, if you see someone walking down the street in a business suit, you might estimate the probability of them working in business as quite high, because their appearance is representative of the population of business workers. This is true even if the number of business people is very low in the population (thus, the probability a given person belonging to this category is low); we neglect these base rates of business workers within the population, and make the judgement based on the degree to which the person resembles a typical business worker. distributed system - correct answer ex parallel distributed processing; new concepts are learned via connection weights that cause a pattern of activation hippocampus - correct answer recent findings indicate that new neurons form in this area of the adult mammalian brain Harvey Carr - correct answer developed functionalism with Dewey and James Rowland Angell, Kerplunk experiment with Watson (rats turn voluntary motor responses into conditioned response) idiographic - correct answer describes the study of the individual, who is seen as a unique agent with a unique life history, with properties setting him/her apart from other individuals nomothetic - correct answer describes the study of classes or cohorts of individuals. Here the subject is seen as an exemplar of a population and their corresponding personality traits and behaviours acetylcholine - correct answer neurotransmitter released at the neuromuscular junction of skeletal muscle axons to excite the muscles to contract Fishbein & Aizen - correct answer created theory of reasoned action/planned behavior (includes perceived behavioral control, attitude toward behavior, behavioral intentions, subjective social norms) notion of consensus - correct answer (Harold Kelley) "Do most people engage in this behavior in this situation?" notion of consistency - correct answer (Kelley) "Is the behavior consistent across most people in the given situation?" notion of distinctiveness - correct answer (Kelley) "Does the behavior vary across different situations?" cooperative learning - correct answer joint effort among students (educational psychology) Erich Fromm - correct answer humanistic; Frankfurt school of critical theory, critique of Freud Edward Tolman - correct answer developed learning theory associated with phrases like 'sign-gestalt learning' and 'purposive behaviorism' supplication - correct answer strategy of self-presentation that is a last resort, can achieve a short term goal but many long term implications including powerlessness exemplification - correct answer can elicit imitation in others; by fostering a perception of integrity and moral worthiness one can also arouse guilt in the target of adherence to some desired standard of behavior encopresis - correct answer voluntary/involuntary pooping of the pants in children who have already been toilet trained dialectical behavior therapy - correct answer form of psychotherapy developed my Marsha Linehand to treat people with borderline personality disorder (experimentally demonstrated to be effective)