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AP Psychology
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1. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area
Orgasm phase
Langer & Rodin
Delusions
occipital lobes
2. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
Self-efficacy
Agoraphobia
Photoreceptors
peripheral nervous system
3. Elements of an experimental situation that might cause a participant to perceive the situation in a certain way or become aware of the purpose of the study and thus bias the participant to behave in a certain way - and in so doing - distort results.
Resistance
Sensation
Demand characteristics
Transduction
4. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
Alfred Adler
epinephrine
Learned Helplessness
Fulfillment
5. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
Anorexia Nervosa
independent variable
Psychoactive Drug
Carol Gilligan
6. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.
Discrimination
Light
Harry Harlow
Dementia
7. The behavior of giving up or not responding to punishment - exhibited by people or animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they have no control
informed consent
counseling psychologist
Consciousness
Learned Helplessness
8. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Intelligence
Dissociative amnesia
frequency distribution
monocular cues
9. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.
Transduction
Oedipus Complex
Coping
amnesia
10. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
emotional intelligence
empiricism
Body Language
11. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
Critical Period
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Need
thalamus
12. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary
Superstitious Behavior
school psychologist
self-actualization
correlational research
13. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age
fluid intelligence
range
Light
Optic chiasm
14. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.
Hans Eysenck
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Working through
Prejudice
15. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
anterograde amnesia
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Id
sensory neurons
16. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
just noticeable difference (JND)
menarche
blind spot
frontal lobes
17. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea
parathyroid
Monochromats
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
David Rosenhan
18. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
strain studies
lens
Myopic
Blood-Brain Barrier
19. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
Token economy
ethics
Oedipus Complex
William Sheldon
20. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
Optic chiasm
episodic memory
parallel processing
occipital lobes
21. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population
control group
Equity Theory
adrenal glands
Heritability
22. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
Fulfillment
Anal Stage
descriptive statistics
Embryo
23. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
measure of central tendency
Erik Erikson
Prevalence
Interpersonal Attraction
24. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
population
Cross-sectional Studies
Deviation IQ
authoritative parenting
25. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.
Debriefing
Projective Tests
glial cells
gene
26. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
endocrine system
long-term memory
photoreceptors
kinesthesis
27. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all
Repression
control group
Plateau phase
all-or-none principle
28. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall
Primary Reinforcer
Anna O.
rehearsal
Anxiety
29. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait
dominant genes
Opponent-process theory
Cognitive theories
emotional intelligence
30. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
aphasia
Heritability
neuropsychologist
Validity
31. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works
amygdala
Reliability
functionalism
Reaction Formation
32. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep
Insomnia
Blood-Brain Barrier
cohort effect
Anxiety
33. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information
survey research
Theory of mind
memory
Libido
34. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
Assimilation
imagery
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Anal Stage
35. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
ions
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Ernst Weber
Abnormal psychology
36. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
inhibitory neurotransmitter
motive
Hyperopic
Regression
37. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
Konrad Lorenz
Self-actualization
Fixed-interval Schedule
Group therapy
38. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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39. Motivation; believed that gastric activity as in empty stomach - was the sole basis for hunger; did research that inserted balloons in stomachs
Phineas Gage
Social Psychology
evolutionary psychology
Walter B. Cannon
40. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross
hypothalamus
Blood-Brain Barrier
genetic mapping
variable
41. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
Aversive counterconditioning
dendrites
Syntax
Longitudinal Study
42. 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
Phineas Gage
Opponent-process theory
Wechsler intelligence tests
Conflict
43. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Prejudice
Representative sample
Grasping reflex
gate control theory
44. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
Subliminal perception
Body Language
Oedipus Complex
amnesia
45. Small area of retina where image is focused
Tolerance
retrieval
Ageism
fovea
46. Graph of a frequency distribution that shows the number of instances of obtained scores - usually with the data points connect by straight lines
Shaping
aversive conditioning
Hermann Ebbinghaus
frequency polygon
47. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi
Stanley Milgram
Temperament
Solomon Asch
Wilhelm Wundt
48. Conditioning in which an increase or decrease in the probability that a behavior will recur is affected by the delivery of reinforcement or punishment as a consequence of the behavior;
Operant Conditioning
Latent Content
anterograde amnesia
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
49. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.
Unconscious
Reasoning
Paul Ekman
kinesthesis
50. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Placebo effect
Receptive fields
Consciousness