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AP Psychology
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1. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior
shaping
Reaction Formation
anorexia nervosa
Herman von Helmholtz
2. The view that knowledge should be acquired through observation and often an experiment
photoreceptors
rehearsal
engineering psychologist
empiricism
3. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Validity
Raymond Cattell
David McClelland
neural impulse
4. Did work on short-term memory
William Sheldon
Conflict
Mary Cover-Jones
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
5. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
psychometrician
association areas
Functional fixedness
Insomnia
6. A person's sense of being male or female
retrograde amnesia
Kenneth Clark
relative refractory period
Gender Identity
7. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
cerebellum
normal distribution
experimenter bias
William Sheldon
8. Maintenance of a constant state of inner stability or balance
Wilhelm Wundt
Homeostasis
mode
gustation
9. A process through which people receive information about the status of a physical system and use this feedback information to learn to control the activity of that system
Biofeedback
Grammar
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
all-or-none principle
10. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
corpus callosum
placebo effect
Photoreceptors
human genomes
11. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
axon terminal
Dichromats
mode
measure of central tendency
12. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
Deviation IQ
Formal operational stage
Linguistics
Health psychology
13. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
cones
Judith Langlois
Phillip Zimbardo
Cognitive Psychology
14. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
Nonverbal Communication
Problem Solving
insulin
Social Facilitation
15. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.
Aaron Beck
Embryo
measure of central tendency
Leon Festinger
16. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal
Premack principle
James-Lange theory of emotion
kinesthesis
Altruism
17. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
Psychoneuroimmunology
aversive conditioning
naturalistic observation
natural selection
18. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
Systematic desensitization
Experimental design
Heritability
Projective Tests
19. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
normal distribution
Mary Ainsworth
selection studies
Group therapy
20. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met
Harry Harlow
axon terminal
Personality
informed consent
21. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
Object permanence
sociocultural psychology
Fulfillment
Health psychology
22. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
Fixed-interval Schedule
Bonding
hindbrain
Dissociative amnesia
23. Emotional intelligence
Benjamin Whorf
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Daniel Goleman
anorexia nervosa
24. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic
Formal operational stage
Sucking reflex
brain
Personal Fable
25. 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'
Appraisal
Sensorimotor stage
thalamus
Punishment
26. Small area of retina where image is focused
fovea
opponent-process theory of emotion
psychology
kinesthesis
27. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
Raymond Cattell
Gibson & Walk
experimental group
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
28. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream
Phineas Gage
endocrine glands
Self-efficacy
Perception
29. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.
Higher-order Conditioning
Dichromats
self-fulfilling prophecy
gene
30. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.
peripheral nervous system
Projection
parathormone
Carl Rogers
31. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
counseling psychologist
myelin sheath
Self-serving Bias
Tolman
32. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.
Bipolar disorder
Carl Jung
Receptive fields
Sublimation
33. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.
structuralism
Divergent thinking
Conditioning
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
34. A descriptive statistic that measures the variability of data from the mean of the sample
Variable-ratio Schedule
Carol Gilligan
Deindividuation
standard deviation
35. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Counterconditioning
Self-actualization
Dissociative disorders
36. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction
Problem Solving
cochlea
insulin
engineering psychologist
37. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons
B.F. Skinner
opponent-process theory of emotion
bottom-up processing
motor neurons
38. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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39. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
William Dement
Mediation
population
binocular cues
40. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching
glial cells
Imaginary Audience
Latent Content
dependent variable
41. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
Secondary Punisher
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Social Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
42. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning
Heuristics
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Classical Conditioning
Hans Eysenck
43. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Preconscious
Ageism
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
amygdala
44. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
Conservation
Stress
authoritative parenting
Observational Learning Theory
45. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.
heritability
variability
Mainstreaming
Child abuse
46. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Projective Tests
Experimental design
Gender Identity
47. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement
hormone
Experimental design
Tolerance
experiment
48. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.
Dream analysis
Placebo effect
Socrates
Zajonc & Markus
49. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative
Working through
ethics
Albert Ellis
family studies
50. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
Fixed-ratio Schedule
retroactive interference
levels-of-processing approach
Secondary Punisher