Introduction to Psychology
Miscellaneous 1
Miscellaneous 2
Experimental Methods
Legal Psychology/Law Psychology, Mental Health System
100
Symptoms of this psychological disorder include terrifying images of the event (flashbacks); very frightening dreams (nightmares); extreme nervousness, anxiety, or depression; and a tendency to become socially isolated.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
100
This phenomenon in the brain that produces a heightened sensitivity to repeated administrations of cocaine – opposite of the effect of tolerance.
What is Kindling
100
The task of memory retrieval in which items to be remembered are presented.
What is Recognition
100
If you are comparing two groups that are related to each other (as in comparing a pre-test and post-test for the same group), you should use this statistical test
What is a t-test for dependent means
100
This type of polygraph test requires a person to have some knowledge of the crime that would not be available to someone who was not a direct witness to the crime.
What is The Guilty Knowledge Test
200
This anxiety disorder is marked by unpredictable (minutes-long) episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking or other frightening sensations.
What is Panic Disorder
200
Approximately 9% of those who use marijuana for the first time will develop this.
What is Dependence
200
These hallucinatory behaviors produced by chronic cocaine or amphetamine abuse, cause the individual to feel insects or snakes crawling either over or under the skin.
What is Formication
200
This type of internal validity describes when Individuals who score toward the extreme on the first taking of a test will score more toward then mean on subsequent testing
What is Regression (to the mean)
200
Insanity is considered this type of definition.
What is Legal
300
The Oedipus Complex, as described by Freud, suggests that a boy feels jealousy and hatred toward this person.
Who is the Father
300
This is a disruption to language capacities, often caused by brain damage.
What is Aphasia
300
One of the chemicals released by neurons in order to stimulate adjacent neurons.
What is Neurotransmitter
300
This is the ethical review board.
What is IRB
300
“Scare tactics" are also known as these type of techniques.
What is Maximization
400
A person who suffers from this personality disorder is usually a male who has no conscience, who lies, steals, cheats, and is unable to keep a job or take on the normal responsibilities of family and society. When combined with high intelligence and no moral sense, the result may be a clever, smooth talking, and deceitful trickster (a con artist).
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
400
This therapist functions as a teacher, coach, model, and consultant. The family learns ways to detect and solve problems.
What is Family Systems Therapy
400
The first-generation and second-generation antipsychotics are referred to as this, and this, respectively.
What is Typical / Atypical Antipsychotics
400
This method is used for when an independent variable cannot be manipulated for ethical or moral reasons.
What is a Quasi-Experimental Method
400
This case led to the establishment of Megan's Law.
What is New Jersey v. Timmendequas
500
This concept, introduced by Carl Jung, focuses on the shared and inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history.
What is the Collective Unconscious
500
This approach rejects the deterministic view of human nature espoused by orthodox psychoanalysis and radical behaviorism.
What is Existential Therapy
500
This is a type of processing in which the sequence of mental events is influenced by a broad pattern of knowledge and expectations.
What is Top-Down Processing
500
This is when you would use the median as the measure of central tendency instead of the mean?
What is when there is one score that is much higher or lower than the rest of the scores (i.e., outliers)
500
Jurors are now allowed to be excluded in regards to death penalty trials by this case.
What is Wainwright v. Witt
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