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Psychology Vocabulary
abstract thinking
acoustic encoding
action potential
adrenal glands
afferent nervous system
all or none principle
Alzheimers disease
amnesia
APA code of ethics
aptitude tests
archetypes
attachmentatypical
authoritarian parenting style
authoritative parenting style
autonomy
axons
behaviorism
Big Five dimensions of personality
bio-psychological perspective
Brocas area
case study
central nervous system
cerebellum
cerebral cortex
cerebral hemispheres
chunking
clinical psychologist
cognitive perspective
collective unconscious
concrete operations/operational
confidentiality
control group
conventional moral reasoning
corpus callosum
correlation/correlational
counseling psychologist
dendrites
dependent variable
depolarization
depth perceptiondevelopmental psychologist
diabetes
dopamine
efferent nervous system
ego
egocentrism
encoding
endocrine system
endorphins
episodic memory
Erik Erikson
evolutionary psychology
experiment
experimenter bias
explicit memories
flashbulb memory
formal operations
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Listed below are vocabulary words that, upon completion of the
unit of instruction, should be familiar to
students. These words are introduced in the student text. Some
of these words will be used in the
CRTs. Every effort has been made to make the readability of each
CRT appropriate for the grade levelat which the assessment was
written. If needed, teachers are allowed to assist students with
reading and
comprehending difficult words or phrases they may encounter
during the CRT assessment. The
following are guidelines for providing assistance.
Any word(s) may be pronounced to a student as necessary.
Additional assistance may be given for words that do not appear
on the list below
(defining words, providing context clues, giving examples,
etc.).
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hippocampus
humanistic theory
hypothalamus
hypothesis
id
identity developmentimplicit memory
imprint
independent variable
informed consent
introversion/ extroversion
Jean Piaget
John Watson
Lawrence Kohlberglife-span
limbic system
lobes of the brain (occipital, temporal,
parietal, frontal)
long-term memory
Mary Cover Jones
menarche
midlife crisis
mnemonic
naturalistic observation
negatively correlated
nerve
nervous systemneural impulses
neuron
neuroticism
neurotransmitters
object permanence
objective tests
observable behavior
olfactory bulb
parasympathetic nervous system
Parkinsons disease
participantsperceptual set
peripheral nervous system
permissive parenting style
personality psychologist
placebo
population
positively correlated
postconventional moral reasoning
preconventional moral reasoning
prenatal development
preoperational
projective testspsychodynamic theory
random sample
random assignment
recall
reflex
regression
rehearsal
relearning
reliability
representative sample
repression
resting potential
reticular formation
retrieval
retrograde amnesia
Carl Rogers
role confusion
rooting
sample
self-actualization
semantic encodingsensorimotor
sensory memory
sensory neurons
serial position effect
short-term memory
Sigmund Freud
social-cognitive theory
socialization
somatic nervous system
spinal cord
storagestructuralism
superego
survey
sympathetic nervous system
synapse/synaptic gap
synaptic bulb/synaptic knob
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