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Question 1

hat the spinal cord contains a neurological “gate” that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain The “gate” is opened by the activity of pain signals traveling up small nerve fibers and is closed by activity in larger fibers or by information coming from the brain.

Answer 1

Gate control theory

Question 2

one’s sense of being male or female

Answer 2

gender identity

Question 3

-a set of expected behaviors for males and for females.

Answer 3

gender role

Question 4

the theory that children learn from their cultures a concept of what it means to be male and female and that they adjust their behavior accordingly.

Answer 4

gender schema theory

Question 5

in psychology, the characteristics, whether biologically or socially influenced, by which people define male and female

Answer 5

gender

Question 6

the acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role.

Answer 6

gender-typing

Question 7

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three stages-alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

Answer 7

general adaptation syndrome

Question 8

a general intelligence factor that Spearman and others believed underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test

Answer 8

general intelligence

Question 9

the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses.

Answer 9

geralization

Question 10

an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal

Answer 10

generalized anxiety disorder

Question 11

the biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes; a segment of DNA capable of synthesizing a protein.

Answer 11

genes

Question 12

the complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in its chromosomes. The human genome has 3 billion weakly bonded pairs of nucleotides organized as coiled chains of DNA.

Answer 12

gnome

Question 13

an organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasize our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.

Answer 13

gestalt

Question 14

cells in the nervous system that are not neurons but that support, nourish, and protect neurons

Answer 14

glial cells

Question 15

the form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues When its level is low, we feel hunger

Answer 15

glucose

Question 16

a system of rules in a language that enables us to communicate with and understand others

Answer 16

grammar

Question 17

the enhancement of a group’s prevailing attitudes through discussion within the group.

Answer 17

group polarization

Question 18

the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

Answer 18

grouping

Question 19

the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.

Answer 19

groupthink