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AP Psychology
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1. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
Herman von Helmholtz
theory
sociocultural psychology
Reliability
2. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait
dominant genes
monocular cues
Operant Conditioning
neuron
3. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
Little Albert
Token economy
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Self-serving Bias
4. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
Zajonc & Markus
Psychoanalysis
Creativity
Divergent thinking
5. An observable action
behavior
parasympathetic nervous system
difference threshold
selective attention
6. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned
Self-actualization
Jean Piaget
debriefing
Conditioning
7. Behaviorism/learning; pioneer in systematic desensitization - maintained that fear could be unlearned
central nervous system
neuropsychologist
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Mary Cover-Jones
8. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
difference threshold
sensory memory
response bias
Aversive counterconditioning
9. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep
Insomnia
efferent neuron nerve
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Subgoal analysis
10. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
consolidation
Stress
flashbulb memories
Trichromats
11. Creates a computerized image using a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves
engineering psychologist
Stimulant
Representative sample
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
12. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Manifest Content
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Dichromats
13. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Sublimation
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Appraisal
14. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works
Paul Ekman
frequency
imagery
functionalism
15. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons
afferent neuron nerve
Defense Mechanism
Latent Content
pupil
16. 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
Lawrence Kohlberg
memory
Longitudinal Study
sample
17. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results
Puberty
natural selection
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Transference
18. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
hypothesis
Harry Stack Sullivan
decay
Social Facilitation
19. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval
Impression Formation
Fixed-interval Schedule
measure of central tendency
Variable-interval Schedule
20. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior
Overjustification effect
Deindividuation
clinical psychologist
Approach-approach conflict
21. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
Rosenhan
Operant Conditioning
health psychologist
consolidation
22. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal
fluid intelligence
graded potential
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Self-fulfilling prophecy
23. Ends of axons that secrete neurotransmitters
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
fovea
levels-of-processing approach
Psychosurgery
24. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm
William Dement
Unconditioned Response
Theory of mind
Plateau phase
25. 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
Case study
polygenic inheritance
Need for achievement
Unconscious
26. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior
olfaction
scientific method
Robert Rosenthal
twin studies
27. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands
Elizabeth Loftus
Arousal
excitatory neurotransmitter
Resistance
28. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons
efferent neuron nerve
Attachment
Drive
self-fulfilling prophecy
29. 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
Walter B. Cannon
semantic memory
significant difference
John B Watson
30. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
parallel processing
Law of Effect
ex post facto study
Conditioning
31. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.
Symptom substitution
Babinski reflex
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Placebo effect
32. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
memory span
Reaction Formation
Harry Stack Sullivan
Fetus
33. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
Electromagnetic Radiation
descriptive statistics
Decision making
Ex Post Facto Design
34. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood
Prototype
Classical Conditioning
Adolescence
Accommodation
35. Establish the relationship between two variables
Archetypes
Social Facilitation
correlational research
Assimilation
36. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'
Zajonc & Markus
epinephrine
Shaping
thalamus
37. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.
Child abuse
Survey
thalamus
Drug
38. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
Model
Dependence
Deindividuation
split brain patients
39. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
Ego
Conformity
Psychoneuroimmunology
human genomes
40. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
pons
school psychologist
Double-blind techniques
Social Cognition
41. Neurotransmitter that inhibits firing of neurons; linked with Huntington's disease
Herman von Helmholtz
clinical psychologist
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Opponent-process theory
42. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
rehearsal
Receptive fields
ethnocentrism
Carl Rogers
43. Neutral stimulus that - through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus - begins to elicit a conditioned response
Conditioned Stimulus
Decentration
John B Watson
Altruism
44. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
Anna Freud
Stimulant
inferential statistics
Androgynous
45. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population
Heritability
rehearsal
Intrinsic motivation
Extinction (operant conditioning)
46. The study of the psychological and medical aspects of death and dying
Algorithm
Thanatology
Language
replication
47. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior
Motivation
Psychotherapy
Unconditioned Response
Alzheimer's Disease
48. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.
Problem Solving
Tolman
Phoneme
graded potential
49. 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
Albert Ellis
genotype
David Rosenhan
inhibitory neurotransmitter
50. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
neural impulse
dependent variable
David Rosenhan
Temperament