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AP Psychology
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1. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and longstanding maladaptive behaviors that typically cause stress and/or social or occupational problems.
Oedipus Complex
Personality disorders
Babinski reflex
Unconscious
2. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Token economy
mutation
Mary Ainsworth
3. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
hormone
confounding variable
pituitary gland
unconscious
4. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
Gender Schema Theory
Gordon Allport
Token economy
hypnosis
5. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
Drug
amygdala
Superego
Conflict
6. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.
Actor-observer Effect
Creativity
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Longitudinal Study
7. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary
Gordon Allport
Stimulus Discrimination
Secondary Sex Characteristics
recessive gene
8. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never
cochlea
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Self-actualization
Rosenhan
9. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment
Trichromats
Psychosurgery
experiment
Extrinsic motivation
10. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
Divergent thinking
state-dependent learning
hindbrain
Functional fixedness
11. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females
Gender stereotype
neuron
Gender Schema Theory
Self-fulfilling prophecy
12. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
Psychodynamically
Drug
authoritative parenting
Attitudes
13. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.
neurogenesis
control group
Counterconditioning
Prototype
14. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
Latent Content
dendrites
Social Facilitation
retrieval
15. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
Broca's area
Francis Galton
Logic
Learned Helplessness
16. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.
Self-serving Bias
Latent Content
optic nerve
experimental group
17. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
Survey
Anorexia Nervosa
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Cognitive Psychology
18. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
pineal gland
Albert Ellis
motor neurons
Dichromats
19. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics
Discrimination
Leon Festinger
Case study
Libido
20. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior
John Locke
Emotion
thyroxine
recessive gene
21. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Abnormal psychology
René Descartes
split brain patients
Ideal Self
22. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
Ex Post Facto Design
Carol Gilligan
observer bias
action potential
23. The extent to which scores differ from one another
pitch
Androgynous
Henry Murray
variability
24. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.
Social Cognition
Approach-approach conflict
genetics
resting potential
25. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience
Psychodynamically
Carol Gilligan
psychobiology
Operant Conditioning
26. The brain and spinal cord
autonomic nervous system
central nervous system
parathormone
Jean Piaget
27. The tendency of people in a group to seek concurrence with one another when reaching a decision - rather than effectively evaluating options.
conventional level of moral development
Reaction Formation
Groupthink
Substance Abuser
28. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
Conditioned Response
glial cells
inferential statistics
Subliminal perception
29. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes
Excitement phase
heritability
Abnormal Behavior
Reinforcer
30. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
Debriefing
David McClelland
school psychologist
gene
31. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.
Client-centered therapy
Intimacy
Zajonc & Markus
Mary Cover-Jones
32. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
Wilhelm Wundt
nature
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Leon Festinger
33. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
neuropsychologist
explicit memory
Trait
neurogenesis
34. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)
Self-actualization
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Personality disorders
35. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.
Placenta
Overjustification effect
top-down processing
Types
36. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.
Specific phobia
William James
Social Need
Morpheme
37. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
Robert Yerkes
strain studies
mode
parathyroid
38. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
introspection
Interpretation
variability
measure of central tendency
39. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.
Semantics
Langer & Rodin
authoritarian parenting
motivated forgetting
40. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
retrieval
ethnocentrism
significant difference
Benjamin Whorf
41. Top of the spinal column
forensic psychologist
brainstem
Homeostasis
synaptic vesicles
42. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat
correlation coefficient
Opponent-process theory
John B Watson
social psychologist
43. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
Panic Attack
explicit memory
crystallized intelligence
developmental psychologist
44. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Paul Ekman
Psychophysics
Reinforcer
genetics
45. A descriptive research method in which researchers study behavior in its natural context.
Naturalistic observation
positive psychology
Anna O.
Moro reflex
46. Inability to understand or use language
aphasia
Self-efficacy
normal distribution
Deviation IQ
47. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.
Anal Stage
state-dependent learning
Time-out
Dissociative identity disorder
48. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all
Stanley Milgram
Conservation
all-or-none principle
Social Psychology
49. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals
Superstitious Behavior
placebo
variable
Delusions
50. An explanation of behavior that emphasizes the entirety of life rather than individual components of behavior and focuses on human dignity - individual choice - and self-worth
Double-blind techniques
behavioral genetics
Insight therapy
Humanistic theory