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AP Psychology
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1. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
Conflict
brain
industrial/organizational psychologist
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
2. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and longstanding maladaptive behaviors that typically cause stress and/or social or occupational problems.
Dark adaptation
school psychologist
Interpretation
Personality disorders
3. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
olfaction
Gender Identity
Cross-sectional study
Fulfillment
4. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
Attitudes
pons
Darley & Latane
neuroscience
5. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
thalamus
Self-actualization
Impression Formation
Variable-interval Schedule
6. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter
levels-of-processing approach
Rape
Genital Stage
antagonist
7. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
James-Lange theory of emotion
Vasocongestion
thyroxine
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
8. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Mediation
theory
pitch
9. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe
Carol Gilligan
empiricism
Cognitive theories
Positive Reinforcement
10. A person's sense of being male or female
Solomon Asch
representative sample
Mary Cover-Jones
Gender Identity
11. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
Attachment
Formal operational stage
decay
Phonology
12. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Self-actualization
Saccades
cognitive psychology
13. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
monism
insulin
Fetus
endorphins
14. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected
synapse
participant
placebo
independent variable
15. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle
Anna Freud
confounding variable
relative refractory period
kinesthesis
16. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
Subgoal analysis
Need
semantic memory
Carl Jung
17. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
flashbulb memories
episodic memory
moral development
Cross-sectional study
18. Study of the brain and nervous system; overlaps with psychobiology
Optic chiasm
neuroscience
Discrimination
Francis Galton
19. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
Defense Mechanism
naturalistic observation
recency effect
monocular cues
20. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)
Alfred Binet
Problem Solving
neural impulse
frontal lobes
21. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion
Variable-interval Schedule
Psychodynamically
Ekman & Friesen
occipital lobes
22. Creates a computerized image using a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves
Punishment
genotype
Emotion
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
23. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve
Normal curve
amygdala
polarization
Anna Freud
24. Primary area for processing visual information
Placenta
Assessment
occipital lobes
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
25. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.
Superstitious Behavior
preconscious
Spontaneous Recovery
Problem Solving
26. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
Francis Galton
Schema
all-or-none principle
Substance Abuser
27. Growth in the ability to tell right from wrong - control impulses - and act ethically
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
moral development
Self-serving Bias
thalamus
28. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function
Subliminal perception
Phineas Gage
human genomes
Mary Ainsworth
29. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
Orgasm phase
Language
Abraham Maslow
educational psychologist
30. Period of development from conception until birth
case study
Ekman & Friesen
Punishment
prenatal development
31. Prejudice against the elderly and the resulting discrimination against them
Debriefing
Superstitious Behavior
shaping
Ageism
32. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
Unconditioned Response
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Sensation
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
33. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
Mediation
inferential statistics
Developmental Psychology
difference threshold
34. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence
just noticeable difference (JND)
Deviation IQ
Phonology
Edward Thorndike
35. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher
polygenic inheritance
significant difference
Self-efficacy
Trait
36. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior
monocular cues
Saccades
Cognitive theories
shaping
37. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.
Carol Gilligan
school psychologist
Body Language
Actor-observer Effect
38. A mass of tissue that is attached to the wall f the uterus and connected to the developing fetus by the umbilical cord; it supplies nutrients and eliminates waste products
Vasocongestion
axon terminal
Negative Reinforcement
Placenta
39. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Self-actualization
Naturalistic observation
imagery
Little Albert
40. Intelligence; found that specific mental talents were highly correlated - concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled 'g' (general ability)
Latent Content
Learning
Charles Spearman
Halo effect
41. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.
Shaping
Grammar
interference
Trichromatic theory
42. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
Free association
Primary Reinforcer
Phallic Stage
Tolman
43. The expression of genes
phenotype
Anorexia Nervosa
Temperament
recessive gene
44. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
dualism
Sublimation
motor projection areas
representative sample
45. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
somatic nervous system
Id
Social Cognition
Survey
46. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
primacy effect
photoreceptors
receptor site
humanistic psychology
47. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8
Group Polarization
Counterconditioning
Collective Unconscious
Metal retardation
48. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
interference
Dichromats
excitatory neurotransmitter
timbre
49. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
Saccades
confounding variable
Need
Gibson & Walk
50. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.
Size constancy
Discrimination
psychometrician
Conditioned Response