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100

When a test measures what it's supposed to, it has 

Reliability 

100

Critical for comprehending speech. Damage creates difficulty in understanding language. 

Wernicke's Area

100

Originator of the term "Misinformation Effect"

Elizabeth Loftus

100

Body system responsible for relaxing the body after stress

Parasympathetic Nervous System

100

Used for diagnosing mental disorders

The DSM 5

200

A paid actor who takes part in experiments

Confederate

200

Observable characteristics of a species based on its interaction with genotype and environment. 

Phenotype

200

Information that is encoded without conscious control

Automatic Processing

200

Motivation that comes from external factors like grades or money

Extrinsic Motivators

200

A mental disorder in which a person switches between different identities. 

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

300

A distance between the highest and lowest scores

Range

300

Location of brain where audio is processed

Temporal Lobe

300

A thinking process that focuses more on creative approaches to problem solving

Divergent Thinking

300

Too much or too little anxiety lowers performance 

Yerkes Dodson Law

300

A hallucination would be an example of a ____ symptom of Schizophrenia

Positive

400

An observational study that measures data from a population at a specific time

Cross Sectional Study

400

Major gland of the endocrine, produces most hormones

Pituitary Gland

400

Main person associated with concepts of language in psych

Noam Chomsky

400

Defense mechanism where people behave the opposite of their true feelings

Reaction Formation

400

An intense type of exposure therapy where the patient faces their fear at a high level of intensity and discomfort

Flooding

500

 a measure of the amount of variation of a random variable expected about its mean.

Standard Deviation

500

Sleep disorder that causes breathing to stop during sleeping

Sleep Apnea

500

Type of intelligence that involves quick thinking and problem solving- declines with age

Fluid Intelligence

500

Most primitive and instinctive part of personality according to Freud

The id

500

Mostly used for treating depression, these drugs block the reabsorption of Serotonin.

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI's)