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| telegraphic speech | |
| Sentences that sound as if they were part of a telegram, in which words not critical to the message are left out (Ch. 8) | |
| temperament: | |
| A basic, innate disposition that emerges early in life (Ch. 12, Ch. 14) | |
| terminal buttons | |
| Small bulges at the end of axons from which messages are launched to other cells (Ch. 3) | |
| test standardization | |
| A technique used to validate questions in personality tests by studying the response of people with known diagnoses (Ch. 14) | |
 thalamus |
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| The part of the brain located in the middle of the central core that acts primarily as a busy relay station, mostly for information concerning the senses (Ch. 3) | |
| Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) | |
| A test consisting of a series of pictures about which a person is asked to write a story (Ch. 14) | |
| theories | |
| Broad explanations and predictions concerning phenomena of interest (Ch. 2) | |
| thinking | |
| The manipulation of mental representations of information (Ch. 8) | |
| tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon | |
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The inability to recall information that one realizes one knows—a result of the difficulty of retrieving information from long-term memory (Ch. 7) |
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| top-down processing | |
| Perception that is guided by higher-level knowledge, experience, expectations, and motivations (Ch. 4) | |
| trait theory | |
| A model of personality that seeks to identify the basic traits necessary to describe personality (Ch. 14) | |
| traits | |
| Enduring dimensions of personality characteristics along which people differ (Ch. 14) | |
| treatment | |
| The manipulation implemented by the experimenter (Ch. 2) | |
| triarchic theory of intelligence | |
| Robert Sternberg’s theory that there are three major aspects to intelligence: componential, experiential, and contextual (Ch. 9) | |
| trichromatic theory of color vision | |
| The theory suggesting that there are three kinds of cones in the retina, each of which responds primarily to a specific range of wavelengths (Ch. 4) | |
| trust-versus-mistrust stage | |
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According to Erikson, the first stage of psychosocial development, occurring from birth to 18 months of age, during which time infants develop feelings of trust or lack of trust (Ch. 12) |
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| Type A behavior pattern | |
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A pattern of behavior characterized by competitiveness, impatience, tendency toward frustration, and hostility (Ch. 15) |
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| Type B behavior pattern | |
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A pattern of behavior characterized by noncompetitiveness, nonaggression, and patience in times of potential stress(Ch. 15) |
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