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AP Psychology
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1. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
descriptive statistics
Morpheme
Subliminal perception
Norms
2. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
dominant genes
Accommodation
replication
Superstitious Behavior
3. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
dendrites
debriefing
placebo
Debriefing
4. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
resting potential
imagery
Bonding
hypothesis
5. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters
Holmes & Rahe
structuralism
Grasping reflex
axon terminal
6. 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.
Mediation
Fulfillment
Social Need
fraternal twins
7. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
Operant Conditioning
Double-blind techniques
Unconditioned Stimulus
Functional fixedness
8. The evaluation of the significance of a situation or event as it relates to a person's well-being
Rational-emotive therapy
Appraisal
Normal curve
Archetypes
9. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
ex post facto study
Prototype
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Receptive fields
10. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Self-serving Bias
Bipolar disorder
ex post facto study
11. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
Circadian Rhythms
hindbrain
control group
monism
12. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
Carl Rogers
Aversive counterconditioning
decay
Leon Festinger
13. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.
recessive gene
Rosenhan
Anal Stage
Dream analysis
14. 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.
Prototype
Child abuse
Convergent thinking
Tolerance
15. Released by thyroid; hormone that regulates the body's metabolism; OVERACTIVE-over-excitability - insomnia - reduced attention span - fatigue - snap decisions - reduced concentration (hyperthyroidism); UNDERACTIVE-desire to sleep - constantly tired -
Body Language
thyroxine
Language
Skinner Box
16. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism
David Rosenhan
functionalism
Primary Punisher
Regression
17. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Equity Theory
psychoanalyst
Aggression
Child abuse
18. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
Functional fixedness
fraternal twins
hindbrain
ethnocentrism
19. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Concrete operational stage
implicit memory
Temperament
Validity
20. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
declarative memory
Myopic
afferent neuron nerve
neural plasticity
21. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent
Albert Bandura
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
pseudoscience
Variable-ratio Schedule
22. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
Personality disorders
descriptive statistics
instinct
agonist
23. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
consolidation
motive
Concept
graded potential
24. 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.
Projective Tests
episodic memory
Hobson & McCarley
participant
25. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
Symptom substitution
Model
Self-perception Theory
Burnout
26. Top of the spinal column
just noticeable difference (JND)
brainstem
Dementia
consolidation
27. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
DNA
Dichromats
Wilhelm Wundt
observer bias
28. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input
Projection
proactive interference
Gestalt psychology
ESP
29. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
menopause
Reasoning
Antisocial personality disorder
memory span
30. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they believe they are so special and unique that other people cannot understand them and risky behaviors will not harm them
DNA
ethnocentrism
fluid intelligence
Personal Fable
31. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
Deviation IQ
Resolution Phase
Standardization
spinal cord
32. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
Interpersonal Attraction
Preconscious
Group
Prototype
33. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
nature
Agoraphobia
engineering psychologist
Brightness
34. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
Photoreceptors
Linguistics
insulin
Ekman & Friesen
35. 17th century English philosopher. Wrote that the mind was a 'blank slate' or 'tabula rasa'; that is - people are born without innate ideas. We are completely shaped by our environment .
John Locke
anterograde amnesia
Child abuse
Bulimia Nervosa
36. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress
Holmes & Rahe
implicit memory
Behavior therapy
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
37. An environmental stimulus that affects an organism in physically or psychologically injurious ways - usually producing anxiety - tension - and physiological arousal
Sex
Brightness
Stressor
glial cells
38. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe
self-fulfilling prophecy
Hobson & McCarley
Carol Gilligan
triarchic theory of intelligence
39. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
endorphins
Elaboration Likelihood Model
psychoanalyst
Preconscious
40. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources
eclectic
opponent-process theory of emotion
representative sample
Coping
41. 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
experiment
demand characteristics
nature
42. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
Learning
Conditioned Response
insulin
Substance Abuser
43. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
parietal lobes
Demand characteristics
Placenta
timbre
44. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.
Child abuse
Photoreceptors
Social Interest
Free association
45. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
sensory memory
Ego
Concrete operational stage
Social Loafing
46. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes
genetic mapping
Formal operational stage
Oedipus Complex
nature-nurture controversy
47. Areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions - rather - they are involved in higher mental processes such as thinking - planning - and communicating
Raw score
association areas
Behavior therapy
response bias
48. The sense of hearing
audition
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Howard Gardner
Delusions
49. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
Residual type of schizophrenia
mean
Unconditioned Response
genetics
50. Largest - most complicated - and most advanced of the three divisions of the brain; comprises the thalamus - hypothalamus - limbic system - basal ganglia - corpus callosum - and cortex
Phonology
forebrain
split brain patients
frontal lobes