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AP Psychology
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1. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
Approach-avoidance conflict
corpus callosum
dualism
resting potential
2. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory
Latent Learning
levels-of-processing approach
Concordance rate
Electromagnetic Radiation
3. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait
dominant genes
hindbrain
Carl Rogers
twin studies
4. 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
Motivation
rehearsal
gene
Fixed-interval Schedule
5. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.
Need
Body Language
Superego
frequency polygon
6. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe
midbrain
Reinforcer
response bias
Naturalistic observation
7. Behaviorism/learning; pioneer in systematic desensitization - maintained that fear could be unlearned
memory
Logic
Mary Cover-Jones
Self
8. An insight therapy - developed be Carl Rogers - that seeks to help people evaluate the world and themselves from their own perspective by providing them with a nondirective environment and unconditional positive regard; also known as person-centered
just noticeable difference (JND)
Consciousness
Client-centered therapy
psychobiology
9. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
Rationalization
Carl Jung
Oral Stage
Logic
10. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
eclectic
temporal lobes
pineal gland
range
11. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources
response bias
Coping
Longitudinal Study
Object permanence
12. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions
sensory neurons
emotional intelligence
interference
Altruism
13. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Judith Langlois
cones
correlation coefficient
Phonology
14. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
Grammar
Mary Cover-Jones
Shaping
Langer & Rodin
15. 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.
Grasping reflex
Prototype
frequency distribution
Regression
16. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
Light
Psychoactive Drug
synapse
Psychosurgery
17. Observed group differences based on the era when people were born and grew up - exposing them to particular experiences that may affect the results of cross-sectional studies
Opponent-process theory
significant difference
Validity
cohort effect
18. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
Drive
Plateau phase
Mainstreaming
Darley & Latane
19. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
Longitudinal Study
thalamus
Masters & Johnson
forensic psychologist
20. 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.
Depressive disorders
Intimacy
Karen Horney
David McClelland
21. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment
Learning
parietal lobes
Approach-approach conflict
variable
22. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
autonomic nervous system
triarchic theory of intelligence
median
psychoanalytic
23. Developed one of the first projective tests - the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story - the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary
Hermann Rorschach
Brainstorming
parasympathetic nervous system
Hobson & McCarley
24. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation
retrograde amnesia
Standard score
optic nerve
Judith Langlois
25. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
Dichromats
emotional intelligence
Unconditioned Stimulus
Electromagnetic Radiation
26. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body
neuron
Cognitive Dissonance
lens
Anna O.
27. 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
memory
Dementia
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
sensory neurons
28. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.
Psycholinguistics
Family therapy
Survey
Developmental Psychology
29. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.
Drive
prenatal development
antagonist
Insight therapy
30. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
Schizophrenic disorders
Lev Vygotsky
Stressor
Residual type of schizophrenia
31. Transparent covering of the eye
Dark adaptation
cornea
Ivan Pavlov
Intelligence
32. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
Normal curve
insulin
Phineas Gage
excitatory neurotransmitter
33. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume
Mainstreaming
heritability
informed consent
Conservation
34. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
episodic memory
Stanley Schachter
Algorithm
Health psychology
35. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.
Solomon Asch
Interpersonal Attraction
dominant genes
functional MRI (fMRI)
36. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords
Unconditioned Stimulus
Primary Punisher
sensory neurons
experiment
37. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior
Accommodation
twin studies
Dissociative identity disorder
recency effect
38. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
Ivan Pavlov
Anna O.
Holmes & Rahe
Social Influence
39. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
Elizabeth Loftus
schema
Actor-observer Effect
psychologist
40. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
Mary Cover-Jones
Babinski reflex
fraternal twins
Anna O.
41. Largest - most complicated - and most advanced of the three divisions of the brain; comprises the thalamus - hypothalamus - limbic system - basal ganglia - corpus callosum - and cortex
ex post facto study
Alfred Binet
chunks
forebrain
42. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands
Anal Stage
triarchic theory of intelligence
Arousal
Sensation
43. A period after firing when a neuron is returning to its normal polarize state and will only fire again if the incoming message open parentheses impulse) is stronger than usual; returning to arresting state
relative refractory period
Primary Reinforcer
health psychologist
Prejudice
44. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
Placebo effect
implicit memory
Psychotherapy
Langer & Rodin
45. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.
optic nerve
Social Psychology
schema
Body Language
46. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
Resolution Phase
measure of central tendency
Variable-ratio Schedule
Unconscious
47. In Piaget's view - a specific mental structure; an organized way of interacting with the environment and experiencing it- a generalization a child makes based on comparable occurences of various actins - usally physical - motor actions
placebo effect
Libido
Schema
optic nerve
48. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.
Concept
Sociobiology
Group therapy
Linguistics
49. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals
action potential
variable
Mary Ainsworth
split brain patients
50. 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)
Rooting reflex
Latent Learning
Puberty
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross