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AP Psychology
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1. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent
Archetypes
Visual cortex
Mary Ainsworth
pseudoscience
2. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
Psychoneuroimmunology
Drug
Imaginary Audience
norepinephrine
3. In Roger's theory of personality - the perception an individual has of himself or herself and of his or her relationships to other people and to various aspects of life.
Self
adaptation
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Negative Reinforcement
4. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
twin studies
Perception
Self-fulfilling prophecy
vestibular sense
5. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
nervous system
Manifest Content
Oral Stage
Judith Langlois
6. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
inferential statistics
Burnout
naturalistic observation
correlational research
7. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.
Psychoanalysis
Harry Harlow
Zygote
imagery
8. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception
Raw score
authoritative parenting
bottom-up processing
Motive
9. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
Attitudes
frequency distribution
episodic memory
Law of Effect
10. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
Psycholinguistics
Leon Festinger
gonads
postconventional level of moral development
11. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)
developmental psychologist
amnesia
Robert Sternberg
short-term storage
12. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.
Hobson & McCarley
Edward Bradford Titchener
amygdala
Actor-observer Effect
13. Primary area for processing visual information
mutation
memory
Transference
occipital lobes
14. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands
Vulnerability
midbrain
timbre
Resilience
15. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.
Time-out
normal distribution
Mediation
Saturation
16. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
structuralism
occipital lobes
Longitudinal Study
naturalistic observation
17. Depth cues that are based on one eye
Signal Detection Theory
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Zajonc & Markus
monocular cues
18. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Motive
Circadian Rhythms
replication
Robert Yerkes
19. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
school psychologist
Stimulus Generalization
acetylcholine (ACh)
Double-blind techniques
20. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill
zone of proximal development
sociocultural psychology
hindbrain
anterograde amnesia
21. Rules of proper and acceptable conduct that investigators use to guide psychological research
Learning
naturalistic observation
ethics
Plateau phase
22. 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
frequency distribution
Archetypes
Demand characteristics
Classical Conditioning
23. 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
frequency
Client-centered therapy
Representative sample
parallel processing
24. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
Longitudinal Study
Social Cognition
Heuristics
kinesthesis
25. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment
William Dement
Moro reflex
memory
psychometrician
26. 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
Fixed-interval Schedule
Generalized anxiety disorder
Morpheme
Sensation
27. 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
interference
Biofeedback
Client-centered therapy
retrieval
28. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.
Syntax
Prejudice
midbrain
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
29. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
Convergent thinking
Spontaneous Recovery
excitatory neurotransmitter
hypnosis
30. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
Libido
nature
Skinner Box
Rooting reflex
31. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits
Psychophysics
gene
Impression Formation
Rape
32. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
Prevalence
Dissociative disorders
primacy effect
frequency
33. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
pupil
Semantics
functionalism
Carl Rogers
34. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
Counterconditioning
timbre
neurotransmitters
habituation
35. 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.
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
genetic mapping
psychology
Prototype
36. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories
midbrain
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
heritability
hippocampus
37. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age
John B Watson
Representative sample
Photoreceptors
photoreceptors
38. 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
Zygote
Rosenthal & Jacobson
normal distribution
behavior
39. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities
retrograde amnesia
glial cells
Gordon Allport
Kurt Lewin
40. Behaviorism/learning; pioneer in systematic desensitization - maintained that fear could be unlearned
Secondary Reinforcer
Mary Cover-Jones
Concordance rate
Aaron Beck
41. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
Descriptive Studies
cognitive psychology
demand characteristics
Demand characteristics
42. A state of mental discomfort arising from a discrepancy between two or more of a person's beliefs or between a person's beliefs and overt behavior.
memory span
autonomic nervous system
fluid intelligence
Cognitive Dissonance
43. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness
Egocentrism
Syntax
Phineas Gage
Phallic Stage
44. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
Token economy
Bystander Effect
Phoneme
Conservation
45. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.
Socrates
Phoneme
Obedience
motivated forgetting
46. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Rational-emotive therapy
functional MRI (fMRI)
experiment
hypnosis
47. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
Self-actualization
nervous system
selection studies
ions
48. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area
Orgasm phase
sensory neurons
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
gonads
49. A division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions; made up of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
relative refractory period
autonomic nervous system
Egocentrism
mutation
50. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
Oedipus Complex
Interpretation
amnesia
percentile score