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Deindividuation

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Loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal (#7)

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Deinstitutionalization

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Staying at a less isolated community than an institution (#7)

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Dependent variable

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The outcome factor (#7)

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Descriptive statistics

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Basic features of data in a study (#7)

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Developmental psych

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Branch of psych that studies physical, cognitive, and social changes through life (#7)

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DSM (purpose & limits)

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Book that classifies psychological disorders (#7)

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Diathesis Stress Model

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Disorder as the result of stress from life experiences (#7)

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Difference threshold

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Minimum difference between 2 stimuli required for detection 50% of time (#7)

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Discrimination in learning

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People learn to respond differently to different stimuli (#7)

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Discrimination in race

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A person is treated less favorably because of their color/race (#7)

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Disorder

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A disruption of normal physical or mental functions (#7)

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Dissociative Disorders

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Conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories (#7)

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Dissociative Identity

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Person shows 2 or more distinct and alternating personalities (#7)

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Mental illness that disrupts/breakdowns memory, consciousness, and identity (#7)

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Dissociative Fugue

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Person without planning/warning, travels far from home/work and leaves behind past life (#7)

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Divergent thinking

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Thought process used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions (#7)

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Dominant genes

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Result of dominant alleles in chromosomes (#7)

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Door in the face

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Persuasive technique that you agree with the small request when large request was initially posed (#7)

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Double-blind procedure

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Experiment where participants and researchers are blind about if participants have received a placebo (#7)

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Down syndrome

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Intellectual disability associated with physical disorders cause by an extra chromosome (#7)

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Convergent thinking

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A mode of thinking used for problems that have just one correct solution (#6)

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Cooper’s visual processing

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Altered visions of cats, caused alters in how the cells fired (#6)

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Correlational Coefficient

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A statistical index of the relationship between two things (#6)

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Correlation study

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Trying to find a relationship between variables (#6)

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Cortisol

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Cortisol is a steroidal hormone responsible anti-stress responses (#6)

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Cross cultural studies

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Cross-cultural psychology is the scientific study of human behavior conditions (#6)

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Cross sectional studies

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A study in which people of different ages are compared with another (#6)

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Crystallized intelligence

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Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills tends to increase with age (#6)

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Culture Fair test

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An attempt to produce a measure of cognitive (#6)

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Curare

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Curare is a drug that causes paralysis (#6)

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Deductive reasoning

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Basic form of valid reason (#6)

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Deep sentence structure

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The study of syntax, the deep structure of a linguistic expression (#6)

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Defense mechanisms

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Unconscious mental processes used to protect oneself from shame, anxiety, loss of self-esteem (#6)

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Defense mechanisms-

Repression

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Defense mechanism that banishes anxiety from consciousness (#6)

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Defense mechanisms-

Regression

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Retreating to an infantile psychosexual stage (#6)

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Defense mechanisms-

Sublimation

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Satisfying an impulse with a substitute object in an acceptable way (#6)

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Defense mechanisms-

Displacement

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Shifting aggressive impulses toward a less threatening person (#6)

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Defense mechanisms-

Projection

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Disguising one’s own impulses by attributing them to others (#6)

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Defense mechanisms-

Reaction Formation

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Switching unacceptable impulses into opposites (#6)

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Defense mechanisms-

Rationalization

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Self-justifying explanations in place of the real one (#6)

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Defense mechanisms-

Denial

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Refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities (#6)

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Conduct disorder

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Mental disorder diagnosed in childhood or adolescence that presents itself through a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate norms are violated (#5)

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Conductive deafness

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Hearing loss caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea (#5)

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Conformation Bias

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A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and ignore or distort contradictory evidence (#5)

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Conflicts

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Incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas (#5)

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Confounding/extraneous variables

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Another factor other than independent that can cause an effect in an experiment (#5)

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Conformity

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Adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard (#5)

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Conformity study

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Asch’s conformity study; refers to a series of studies directed by Solomon Asch studying if and how individuals yielded to or defied a majority group and the effect of such influences on beliefs and opinions (#5)

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Contact comfort

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The innate pleasure derived from close physical contact (#5)

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Control group

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In an experiment, the group that is not exposed to the treatment (#5)

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Clever Hans experiment

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(Horse) claimed to have demonstrated that the horse was not performing the mental tasks but was watching the reactions of the trainer. He said that he has discovered this artifact in the research methodology (#5)

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Client-centered therapy

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A humanistic therapy. In which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate client’s growth (#5)

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Cocktail party effect

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Ability to attend to only one voice among many (#5)

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Cognitive Dissonance

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The theory that we reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are inconsistent (#5)

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Collectivism

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Giving priority to goals of one’s group and defining one’s identity accordingly (#5)

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Color blindness

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A vision defect wherein the eye perceived some colors differently than others (#5)

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Companionate love

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The deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined (#5)

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Complementary colors

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The primary colors are red, yellow and blue while the other (secondary) colors orange, green and violet are each made by combining two of the primary colors. When these 6 colors are diagramed in a wheel, the colors that are opposite to one another are complementary colors (#5)

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Compliance

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A response specifically, a submission made in reaction to a request (#5)

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