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AP Psychology
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1. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
Substance Abuser
Carol Gilligan
Self-efficacy
temporal lobes
2. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Charles Darwin
Androgynous
Equity Theory
neurotransmitters
3. 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
motivated forgetting
peripheral nervous system
endorphins
cohort effect
4. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
state-dependent learning
experimenter bias
psychologist
Conformity
5. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Body Language
inferential statistics
Self-actualization
Light
6. Elements of an experimental situation that might cause a participant to perceive the situation in a certain way or become aware of the purpose of the study and thus bias the participant to behave in a certain way - and in so doing - distort results.
Demand characteristics
Aversive counterconditioning
Bulimia Nervosa
Fixed-ratio Schedule
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.
token economy
psychiatrist
Psychoanalysis
health psychologist
8. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
self-fulfilling prophecy
Herman von Helmholtz
Double-blind techniques
Broca's area
9. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data
Social Cognition
Libido
Leon Festinger
statistics
10. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
explicit memory
hypothesis
Placebo effect
psychology
11. 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
Conflict
primacy effect
selective attention
midbrain
12. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
Reactance
Moro reflex
sample
kinesthesis
13. A fertilized egg
Drug
Dissociative disorders
Learned Helplessness
Zygote
14. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
Social Need
Psychodynamically
Language
Phineas Gage
15. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.
Raymond Cattell
preconscious
Elizabeth Loftus
Psychotherapy
16. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
Socrates
Alfred Adler
Substance Abuser
Paul Ekman
17. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.
William Dement
strain studies
Moro reflex
action potential
18. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints
Decentration
humanistic psychology
Social Facilitation
hypothesis
19. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning
survey research
natural selection
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Need for achievement
20. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.
Bystander Effect
Receptive fields
Hans Eysenck
Walter B. Cannon
21. Growth in the ability to tell right from wrong - control impulses - and act ethically
moral development
all-or-none principle
vestibular sense
Insomnia
22. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
Kenneth Clark
Self-perception Theory
selection studies
Child abuse
23. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching
functionalism
Imaginary Audience
myelin sheath
Psychoactive Drug
24. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites
Carl Rogers
Preoperational stage
synapse
Phineas Gage
25. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
Paul Ekman
Unconditioned Response
eclectic
motor projection areas
26. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
association areas
hypothalamus
Residual type of schizophrenia
EEG (electroencephalogram)
27. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
storage
Langer & Rodin
Burnout
neuropsychologist
28. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities
Antisocial personality disorder
Type A behavior
Resolution Phase
functional MRI (fMRI)
29. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
Case study
proactive interference
Brainstorming
peripheral nervous system
30. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
temporal lobes
Agoraphobia
Carl Jung
Brainstorming
31. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
Normal curve
introspection
Nonverbal Communication
cones
32. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
Tolerance
sensory neurons
Fixed-ratio Schedule
autonomic nervous system
33. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory
Absolute threshold
Latency Stage
self-actualization
Dissociative disorders
34. 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)
pons
Resistance
resting potential
Group therapy
35. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.
Insight therapy
thyroid gland
Prototype
Fixed-ratio Schedule
36. 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
independent variable
postconventional level of moral development
Wernicke's area
memory
37. 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
debriefing
Oedipus Complex
cohort effect
Biofeedback
38. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
shaping
Kurt Lewin
Preconscious
pitch
39. The behavior of giving up or not responding to punishment - exhibited by people or animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they have no control
transfer appropriate processing
Learned Helplessness
thalamus
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
40. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Personality
Skinner Box
Attitudes
41. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
Vulnerability
heritability
lens
Variable-ratio Schedule
42. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
Kenneth Clark
Law of Effect
ex post facto study
hypnosis
43. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
Wechsler intelligence tests
dependent variable
Stimulus Generalization
gate control theory
44. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.
Harry Stack Sullivan
Dissociative disorders
Altruism
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
45. Study of the brain and nervous system; overlaps with psychobiology
neuroscience
Absolute threshold
autonomic nervous system
structuralism
46. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.
axon
Visual cortex
Kenneth Clark
recessive gene
47. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary
Vasocongestion
school psychologist
afferent neuron nerve
Law of Effect
48. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
neuropsychologist
state-dependent learning
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
corpus callosum
49. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
split brain patients
Syntax
David Weschler
endocrine system
50. Sense of smell
Regression
Health psychology
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
olfaction