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AP Psychology
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1. Does research on how people function best with machines
Concordance rate
Motive
conventional level of moral development
engineering psychologist
2. An unconscious way of reducing anxiety by distorting perceptions of reality.
Reaction Formation
William Sheldon
Defense Mechanism
Placenta
3. The highness or lowness of a sound
preconventional level of moral development
pitch
inferential statistics
Visual cortex
4. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.
Albert Ellis
instinct
synaptic cleft
Syntax
5. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
neuroscience
Alzheimer's Disease
achievement test
Agoraphobia
6. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed
split brain patients
Herman von Helmholtz
Transduction
Superego
7. The evaluation of the significance of a situation or event as it relates to a person's well-being
Appraisal
Denial
control group
Primary Punisher
8. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening
Lucid Dream
neural impulse
Latent Content
refractory period
9. 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
Prototype
Grasping reflex
Collective Unconscious
Reliability
10. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
Orgasm phase
maintenance rehearsal
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
hypothalamus
11. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
endocrine system
unconscious
Stimulus Generalization
standard deviation
12. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
Gender Schema Theory
Bonding
Darley & Latane
Cross-sectional study
13. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi
Sensation
difference threshold
Solomon Asch
Behavior therapy
14. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
ex post facto study
Ivan Pavlov
top-down processing
Self-serving Bias
15. The process by which individuals lose their self-awareness and distinctive personality in the context of a group - which may lead them to engage in antinormative behavior.
Assimilation
Deindividuation
Insight therapy
Survey
16. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
Personality
dopamine
recessive gene
Self-efficacy
17. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
Judith Langlois
Prevalence
Opponent-process theory
Punishment
18. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
Self-actualization
Attributions
gene
developmental psychologist
19. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Myopic
cerebellum
timbre
20. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Trait
ex post facto study
Sucking reflex
Heuristics
21. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
mean
random sample
Need for achievement
dopamine
22. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.
gene
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Lev Vygotsky
Consciousness
23. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
Dichromats
Logic
authoritative parenting
Rosenthal & Jacobson
24. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
Social Need
Group
sensory memory
synaptic vesicles
25. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
cones
Fixation
descriptive statistics
autonomic nervous system
26. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place
memory
nervous system
Personality
neurogenesis
27. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics
Karen Horney
Case study
Social Categorization
chunks
28. The sense of hearing
motive
audition
fovea
Psychoanalysis
29. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
Ego
triarchic theory of intelligence
double-blind procedure
Manifest Content
30. An individual who takes part in an experiment and whose behavior is observed as part of the data collection process
audition
Harry Stack Sullivan
corpus callosum
participant
31. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
olfaction
William Dement
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
sound localization
32. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Cognitive Dissonance
Standard score
Abnormal psychology
Withdrawal Symptoms
33. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
double-blind procedure
Social Facilitation
memory span
Leon Festinger
34. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function
Phineas Gage
Hobson & McCarley
Law of Effect
Robert Sternberg
35. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response
Longitudinal Study
placebo
flashbulb memories
Extinction (classical conditioning)
36. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
Fundamental Attribution Error
Overjustification effect
Myopic
Cognitive Dissonance
37. Humanistic psychology; Contributions: founded client-centered therapy - theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth - unconditional positive regard -
Deviation IQ
evolutionary psychology
Carl Rogers
thalamus
38. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent
population
case study
Stress
Approach-avoidance conflict
39. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable
Cognitive Psychology
Deviation IQ
Rational-emotive therapy
operational definition
40. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Leon Festinger
Anorexia Nervosa
temporal lobes
41. Number of wavelengths that pass a point in a given amount of time; determines hue of light and the pitch of a sound
frequency
Ideal Self
lens
Photoreceptors
42. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
sports psychologist
Group Polarization
Abnormal psychology
nature
43. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
Dissociative identity disorder
Secondary Sex Characteristics
developmental psychologist
Need
44. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Biofeedback
amnesia
cones
45. Perspective that seeks to explain and predict behaviors by analyzing how the human brain developed over time - how it functions - and how input from the environment affects human behaviors
Positive Reinforcement
evolutionary psychology
Puberty
Androgynous
46. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross
Anxiety
Counterconditioning
Erik Erikson
Blood-Brain Barrier
47. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
random sample
conventional level of moral development
science
William Dement
48. Small area of retina where image is focused
Decision making
Regression
Obedience
fovea
49. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
DNA
Consciousness
Benjamin Whorf
Drive
50. The expression of genes
Dissociative identity disorder
Trait
phenotype
Kurt Lewin