Development
According to Erikson, this is the first true psychosocial crisis
trust versus mistrust
The technical term for the external flap of tissue that is more commonly referred to as the ear
pinna
A psychological need for continued use of a drug is considered ______.
dependency
The thought that the brain can block critical pain signals from reaching more advanced neural centers when appropriate is most closely associated with ______.
gate-control theory
Individuals participating in a drug study are unaware if they have been assigned to the experimental or control group. This is an example of a ______.
single-blind study
The decline in responsiveness to repeated events
habituation
The chemical senses include ______.
smell and taste
A sleep disorder which involves sudden extreme sleepiness (or sleep attacks)
narcolepsy
Type of neuron that carries information from the environment inward toward the spinal column and brain
interneurons
According to Freud, the definition of ______ content is the true psychological meaning of dream symbols.
latent
A baby has difficulty establishing new routines and is easy to upset. This temperament would be referred to as ______
difficult
Agatha no longer feels cold after swimming in low temperature water for 10 min. This is an example of ______.
sensory adaptation
A 3-year-old wakes up in the middle of the night extremely panicked and even screams loudly. They do not respond to the presence of their parents in the room. This child is experiencing ______.
night terror
Fibers that extend outward from the neuron and receive information from other neurons
dendrites
The value that scores tend to cluster around is called ______.
central tendencies
According to Harlow, the main motivator of attachment is ______.
contact comfort
The process related to vision in which the lens changes shape to help focus light on the retina
accommodation
Activities, such as sleeping and waking, that rise and fall within a 24-hr cycle are called ______.
circadian rhythms
An all-or-none electrical signal that travels down a neuron’s axon is called a(n) ______.
action potential
The ______ is the arithmetic average of a set of scores.
mean
For the first 2 months of life, the ______ reflex is present. It causes the infant to throw its head back and its arms out when it hears a loud noise.
Moro
Brain structure that allows the left and right hemispheres to communicate with one another
corpus callosum
Type of psychologist who might help a growing company that is struggling to keep their employees motivated
industrial/organizational psychologist