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AP Psychology
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1. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
anorexia nervosa
maintenance rehearsal
Stimulus Discrimination
Holmes & Rahe
2. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
unconscious
Demand characteristics
encoding specificity principle
placebo
3. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.
Equity Theory
Ideal Self
retrograde amnesia
Standardization
4. Humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization - transcendence
Stressor
Fixation
Abraham Maslow
blind spot
5. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
occipital lobes
replication
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
observer bias
6. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.
Heritability
Problem Solving
observer bias
Antisocial personality disorder
7. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
Longitudinal Study
school psychologist
Anna Freud
Learned Helplessness
8. Style of parenting marked by emotional coldness - imposing rules and expecting obedience
authoritarian parenting
nerve
Aaron Beck
anterograde amnesia
9. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
DNA
inferential statistics
Imaginary Audience
Actor-observer Effect
10. A person's experiences in the environment
Anxiety
John Garcia
David Weschler
nurture
11. The time in to development of an organism when it is especially sensitive to certain environmental influences; outside of that period the same influences will have far less effect
Critical Period
Need for achievement
kinesthesis
Color Blindness
12. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
crystallized intelligence
genetics
Rational-emotive therapy
Hue
13. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
Validity
Subgoal analysis
mode
Substance Abuser
14. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
menarche
Intrinsic motivation
Morpheme
Linguistics
15. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable
confounding variable
Karl Wernicke
structuralism
ethnocentrism
16. The prenatal organism from the 5th through the 49th day after conception
educational psychologist
Embryo
Primary Reinforcer
Regression
17. Biologist; developed theory of evolution; transmutation of species - natural selection - evolution by common descent; 'The Origin of Species' catalogs his voyage on The Beagle
variable
Charles Darwin
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Social Facilitation
18. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
opponent-process theory of emotion
cognitive psychology
optic nerve
Burnout
19. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
inferential statistics
procedural memory
Self-perception Theory
Sociobiology
20. 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.
memory
Appraisal
Social phobia
Self
21. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
Type B behavior
Carl Rogers
Mary Cover-Jones
Androgynous
22. Study of the brain and nervous system; overlaps with psychobiology
theory
Transference
Light
neuroscience
23. 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
association areas
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Appraisal
Body Language
24. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
Robert Sternberg
Standardization
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
phenotype
25. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.
Interpersonal Attraction
parathormone
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
26. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions
norepinephrine
triarchic theory of intelligence
cornea
Cross-sectional study
27. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.
Interpretation
Dichromats
gonads
Rational-emotive therapy
28. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Secondary Reinforcer
Defense Mechanism
Babinski reflex
29. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors
gustation
amygdala
working memory
Brainstorming
30. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
bulimia nervosa
Need for achievement
sociocultural psychology
descriptive statistics
31. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
Babinski reflex
cognitive psychology
descriptive statistics
Group
32. 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.
Anal Stage
debriefing
visual acuity
just noticeable difference (JND)
33. Morality based on consequences to self
Collective Unconscious
Longitudinal Study
semantic memory
preconventional level of moral development
34. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
synapse
brainstem
hypothalamus
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
35. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal
synaptic cleft
Concordance rate
split brain patients
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
36. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
neural impulse
Operant Conditioning
Monochromats
parathormone
37. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
Superstitious Behavior
Body Language
Aaron Beck
Language
38. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand
action potential
norepinephrine
Gender Schema Theory
Grasping reflex
39. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
Prototype
Dream
Regression
Time-out
40. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
Bonding
Genital Stage
Nonverbal Communication
Shaping
41. Does research on how people function best with machines
engineering psychologist
frequency polygon
Gender Identity
Positive Reinforcement
42. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
Aristotle
Secondary Punisher
Group therapy
hippocampus
43. Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information - usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.
Insomnia
Sociobiology
Dissociative amnesia
Conditioning
44. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Deviation IQ
Free association
Karen Horney
45. Sense of taste
neuron
Brainstorming
educational psychologist
gustation
46. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
emotional intelligence
Motivation
habituation
sports psychologist
47. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
Gordon Allport
Skinner Box
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Self-efficacy
48. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time
Insomnia
Aaron Beck
introspection
episodic memory
49. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives
interference
Approach-approach conflict
Fixation
frontal lobes
50. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events
Self-efficacy
Sensorimotor stage
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Catatonic type of schizophrenia