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-70 mV (millivolts) - answer ✅✅Resting potential of a neuron
"flight of ideas" - answer ✅✅a nearly continuous flow of rapid speech that jumps
from topic to topic, usually based on discernible associations, distractions, or plays
on words, but in severe cases so rapid as to be disorganized and incoherent.
Common in mania
"word salad" - answer ✅✅symptom of schizophrenia; jumbled thinking; victim's
speech is loosely connected and words can be thrown together in odd, nonsensical
ways
(mental age/chronological age) X 100 - answer ✅✅IQ equation
*Maturation* is: - answer ✅✅The sequential unfolding of genetically influenced
behavior and physical characteristics.
*Puberty* is? - answer ✅✅The age at which a person becomes capable of sexual
reproduction.
,350,000 - answer ✅✅How many people in America have MS?
Aaron Beck - answer ✅✅American cognitive psychologist, believed one became
depressed because of thinking depressing thoughts
ablation - answer ✅✅Surgical excision or amputation of a body part or tissue.
abnormal behavior - answer ✅✅behavior which is statistically unusual,
maladaptive, and personally distressing to the individual
Abraham Maslow - answer ✅✅Humanist; developed the theory of human
motivation now known as Hierarchy of Needs.
Absolute Threshold - answer ✅✅The minimum stimulation needed to detect a
particular stimulus 50 percent of the time.
abstract learning - answer ✅✅learning in which the relationship between and
among stimuli is more important than the physical features of the stimuli
accepting/ unconditional positive regard - answer ✅✅an attitude of total
acceptance toward another person
Accommodation - answer ✅✅(perceptual) - The process by which the eye's lens
changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina.
,acetylcholine (ACh) - answer ✅✅a neurotransmitter that enables learning and
memory and also triggers muscle contraction.
achievement motive - answer ✅✅the desire to accomplish something, to excel, or
to reach a standard of excellence
achievement tests - answer ✅✅tests that measure our current mastery of a
subject or specific program of study
acoustic encoding - answer ✅✅the encoding of sound, especially the sound of
words
acquisition - answer ✅✅learning a new behavior; refers to the initial stage of
conditioning in which the new response is established and gradually strengthened
action potential - answer ✅✅a neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that
travels down an axon. The action potential is generated by the movement of
positively charged atoms in and out of channels in the axon's membrane.
Action potentials of different speeds depend on two things - - answer ✅✅"-
thickness (the thicker, the quicker); -whether its covered with a myelin sheath or
not"
activation-synthesis hypothesis - answer ✅✅during REM sleep, the brainstem
stimulates the forebrain with random neural activity, which we interpret as a
dream.
, active listening - answer ✅✅Rogers' term for hearing another person with
complete attention to what he/she says and means through acknowledging
feelings, echoing, restating, and seeking clarification
actively disengaged - answer ✅✅unhappy workers undermining what their
colleagues accomplish
Actor-Observer Bias - answer ✅✅Refers to the tendency of an individual to
regard situations in which he or she is involved as caused by external factors, and
to regard situations he or she observes as caused by the actions of those involved.
actor-observer bias - answer ✅✅tendency to focus on our own situations and the
other person rather than his/her situation when interpreting behavior
Acuity - answer ✅✅The sharpness of vision.
AD/HD (Attention deficit/hyperactive disorder) - answer ✅✅more common
among boys; characterized by impulsivity and limited ability to focus on tasks
adaptation-level phenomenon - answer ✅✅our tendency to form judgments of
sounds, lights, relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
adolescence egocentrism - answer ✅✅Difficulty differentiating between one's
own thoughts and feelings and those of other people; Overly concerned with their
own thoughts and feelings
Adrenal - answer ✅✅endocrine glands atop kidneys.
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