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GLOSSARY G-5 developmental psychology area of psychology in which the psychologists study the changes in the way people think, r ...

G-6 GLOSSARY endocrine glands glands that secrete chemicals called hormones directly into the bloodstream. environmental psychol ...

GLOSSARY G-7 gender identity the individual’s sense of being male or female. gender roles the culture’s expectations for male or ...

G-8 GLOSSARY id part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious. imaginary audience type of thought common t ...

GLOSSARY G-9 linear perspective monocular depth perception cue; the tendency for paral- lel lines to appear to converge on each ...

G-10 GLOSSARY negative reinforcement the reinforcement of a response by the removal, escape from, or avoidance of an unpleasant ...

GLOSSARY G-11 parietal lobes sections of the brain located at the top and back of each cere- bral hemisphere containing the cent ...

G-12 GLOSSARY preoperational stage Piaget’s second stage of cognitive development, in which the preschool child learns to use la ...

GLOSSARY G-13 reciprocal determinism Bandura’s explanation of how the factors of envi- ronment, personal characteristics, and be ...

G-14 GLOSSARY semantic network model model of memory organization that assumes information is stored in the brain in a connected ...

GLOSSARY G-15 somatosensory cortex area of cortex at the front of the parietal lobes responsible for processing information from ...

G-16 GLOSSARY top-down processing the use of preexisting knowledge to organize individ- ual features into a unified whole. trait ...

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R-2 REFERENCES Allik, J., Realo, A., & McCrae, R. R. (2013). Univerality of the five-factor model of per- sonality. In T. A. ...

REFERENCES R-3 Arns, M., de Ridder, S., Strehl, U., Breteler, M., & Coenen, A. (2009). Efficacy of neuro- feedback treatment ...

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REFERENCES R-5 Bellis, M. A., Downing, J., & Ashton, J. A. (2006). Adults at 12? Trends in puberty and their public health c ...

R-6 REFERENCES Bjork, R. A., & Bjork, E. L. (1992). A new theory of disuse and an old theory of stimulus fluctuation. In A. ...

REFERENCES R-7 Boyd, L. A., & Winstein, C. J. (2004). Cerebellar stroke impairs temporal but not spatial accuracy during imp ...

R-8 REFERENCES Burger, J. M., & Petty, R. E. (1981). The low-ball compliance technique: Task or person commitment? Journal o ...