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AP Psychology
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1. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
Agoraphobia
Reinforcer
B.F. Skinner
Self-efficacy
2. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
Genital Stage
Concrete operational stage
nervous system
Overjustification effect
3. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh
Attitudes
Type B behavior
Psychosurgery
Circadian Rhythms
4. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.
Insight therapy
Prototype
parathormone
social psychologist
5. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
nonconscious
Phallic Stage
spinal cord
Free association
6. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
Morpheme
Descriptive Studies
spinal cord
Superego
7. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
educational psychologist
Reliability
Type B behavior
Mediation
8. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
Adolescence
Types
Premack principle
Stress
9. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
ethics
moral development
procedural memory
Norms
10. 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
Von Restorff effect
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Robert Rosenthal
David Rosenhan
11. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
polygenic inheritance
Wernicke's area
Elizabeth Loftus
Abnormal psychology
12. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits
efferent neuron nerve
Major depressive disorder
Harry Stack Sullivan
interference
13. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
Placenta
recessive gene
Anxiety
Anorexia Nervosa
14. A division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions; made up of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
Prevalence
autonomic nervous system
shaping
episodic memory
15. 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.
antagonist
Projective Tests
science
Self
16. Fixed - overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.
Stereotypes
Ageism
William Dement
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
17. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
operational definition
Reinforcer
Alfred Adler
Subliminal perception
18. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
Brightness
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
preconventional level of moral development
Formal operational stage
19. The brain and spinal cord
Type A behavior
central nervous system
Charles Spearman
preconventional level of moral development
20. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'
Erik Erikson
Unconditioned Stimulus
pituitary gland
Projection
21. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior
Robert Zajonc
Theory of mind
Paul Ekman
school psychologist
22. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts
Self-actualization
parietal lobes
Prosocial Behavior
Noam Chomsky
23. Period of development from conception until birth
descriptive statistics
Stereotypes
Signal Detection Theory
prenatal development
24. In an experiment - the group of participants to whom a treatment is given
Teratogen
Classical Conditioning
experimental group
Superego
25. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected
Phallic Stage
achievement test
independent variable
Edward Bradford Titchener
26. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
Child abuse
Double bind
hindbrain
dependent variable
27. Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of - and desire to avoid - situations in which the person might be exposed to scrutiny by others and might behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way.
hypothesis
Social phobia
Abnormal Behavior
Mary Ainsworth
28. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
Approach-avoidance conflict
Unconditioned Response
monism
Anna O.
29. Number of wavelengths that pass a point in a given amount of time; determines hue of light and the pitch of a sound
association areas
response bias
excitatory neurotransmitter
frequency
30. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
Id
Approach-avoidance conflict
Perception
Prejudice
31. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.
Von Restorff effect
Learned helplessness
Psychoanalysis
Language
32. Establish the relationship between two variables
Circadian Rhythms
informed consent
correlational research
forebrain
33. When a neuron is in polarization; more negative ions are inside the neuron cell membrane with a positive ions on the outside - causing a small electrical charge; release of this charge generates a neuron's impulse (signal/message)
endocrine system
Secondary Sex Characteristics
resting potential
Higher-order Conditioning
34. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
Moro reflex
Positive Reinforcement
Sensorimotor stage
Self-efficacy
35. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them
scientific method
motivated forgetting
parasympathetic nervous system
Interpretation
36. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Motive
Linguistics
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Wolpe
37. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
Stanley Schachter
sensory neurons
Conditioned Response
habituation
38. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems
psychoanalyst
Stressor
schema
fovea
39. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation
bulimia nervosa
Stimulus Discrimination
Hyperopic
science
40. Graphical record of brain-wave activity obtained through electrodes placed on the scalp and forehead
hypnosis
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
optic nerve
replication
41. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism
frequency polygon
Francis Galton
Collective Unconscious
placebo
42. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Sucking reflex
Learned helplessness
sensory memory
Defense Mechanism
43. The tendency for one characteristic of an individual to influence a tester's evaluation of other characteristics
Approach-approach conflict
Type A behavior
Halo effect
Panic Attack
44. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s
Backward search
resting potential
Extinction (operant conditioning)
corpus callosum
45. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
sensory memory
standard deviation
Lawrence Kohlberg
midbrain
46. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
occipital lobes
sports psychologist
Halo effect
achievement test
47. 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
Client-centered therapy
natural selection
Antisocial personality disorder
pancreas
48. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
Hue
Arousal
Phineas Gage
Token economy
49. Deals with the extent to which heredity and the environment each influence behavior
nature-nurture controversy
semantic memory
Hue
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
50. Sense of taste
Trichromatic theory
Convergent thinking
Substance Abuser
gustation