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AP Psychology
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1. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
unconscious
Overjustification effect
preconventional level of moral development
refractory period
2. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
sensory neurons
Discrimination
Generalized anxiety disorder
Phonology
3. 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
Case study
Prejudice
selective attention
postconventional level of moral development
4. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
Grasping reflex
Self-efficacy
Psychotic
Oedipus Complex
5. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
Receptive fields
Psychotic
inhibitory neurotransmitter
thyroid gland
6. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
Groupthink
midbrain
Interpretation
pineal gland
7. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships
Bipolar disorder
Social Need
preconscious
pineal gland
8. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
Bonding
semantic memory
Assessment
menopause
9. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them
Gazzaniga or Sperry
motivated forgetting
Social Loafing
Personal Fable
10. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
Ex Post Facto Design
Saccades
Reasoning
Model
11. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
aptitude test
temporal lobes
Androgynous
neural plasticity
12. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data
Self
Saturation
Social Facilitation
Factor analysis
13. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes
Regression
heritability
primacy effect
Social Interest
14. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.
Unconditioned Stimulus
Resilience
Interpersonal Attraction
case study
15. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
thyroxine
moral development
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Dichromats
16. Body sense of equilibrium and balance
Actor-observer Effect
vestibular sense
Validity
Cross-sectional Studies
17. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
Conditioned Stimulus
semantic memory
Gender
acetylcholine (ACh)
18. Constructed by Lewis Terman - originally used ratio IQ (MA/CA x 100); now based on deviation from mean
Variable-ratio Schedule
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Sociobiology
encoding specificity principle
19. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm
Size constancy
Plateau phase
split brain patients
introspection
20. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
forebrain
association areas
sensory memory
David McClelland
21. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
Phoneme
Formal operational stage
midbrain
Variable-ratio Schedule
22. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.
Moro reflex
Albert Bandura
Standardization
Transference
23. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
random sample
neurogenesis
parathyroid
Child abuse
24. 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.
David Rosenhan
Dream analysis
sympathetic nervous system
normal distribution
25. 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
Rosenhan
Socrates
Harry Stack Sullivan
Classical Conditioning
26. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
Conditioning
Fulfillment
Orgasm phase
Genital Stage
27. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
acetylcholine (ACh)
psychologist
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Repression
28. Piaget's thrid stage of cognitive development (lasting from approximately age 6 or 7 to age 11 or 12) - during which the child develops the ability to understand constant factors in the environment - rules - and higher-order symbolic systems
Specific phobia
Ideal Self
Concrete operational stage
timbre
29. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.
Psychosurgery
Algorithm
Ego
Bipolar disorder
30. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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31. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction
Aaron Beck
transfer appropriate processing
cochlea
placebo
32. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
Superstitious Behavior
nervous system
Resilience
procedural memory
33. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
Anna O.
Brainstorming
Law of Effect
Nonverbal Communication
34. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
Cross-sectional Studies
Solomon Asch
Impression Formation
replication
35. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
polygenic inheritance
hindbrain
Ekman & Friesen
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
36. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.
hypnosis
procedural memory
variability
Phobic disorders
37. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
Shaping
pancreas
Monochromats
Dissociative amnesia
38. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically
Absolute threshold
Divergent thinking
Preoperational stage
Counterconditioning
39. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Id
Sucking reflex
measure of central tendency
Visual cortex
40. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates
Clark Hull
Stanley Milgram
midbrain
implicit memory
41. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
Metal retardation
Gender stereotype
Perception
crystallized intelligence
42. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons
hypothesis
Social Loafing
B.F. Skinner
Actor-observer Effect
43. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.
informed consent
Projection
Bystander Effect
Gordon Allport
44. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
interference
lens
Nonverbal Communication
Stanley Milgram
45. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
Social Loafing
top-down processing
Darley & Latane
Jean Piaget
46. Behaviorism/learning; pioneer in systematic desensitization - maintained that fear could be unlearned
Gender
Latency Stage
Psychoactive Drug
Mary Cover-Jones
47. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
Denial
encoding
Group
ethnocentrism
48. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.
(cerebral) cortex
Aristotle
Social Influence
parallel processing
49. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit
Dissociative identity disorder
Decision making
sociocultural psychology
response bias
50. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
placebo
Validity
Homeostasis
Norms