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AP Psychology
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1. The prenatal organism from the 5th through the 49th day after conception
Deviation IQ
Embryo
somatic nervous system
amnesia
2. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories
encoding
Masters & Johnson
debriefing
hippocampus
3. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
structuralism
Abnormal psychology
empiricism
Social Facilitation
4. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
Size constancy
family studies
Concept
sociocultural psychology
5. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Validity
all-or-none principle
synaptic vesicles
Backward search
6. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
Latent Content
Ageism
hindbrain
dualism
7. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
insulin
Counterconditioning
glial cells
moral development
8. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior
Specific phobia
Type A behavior
twin studies
transfer appropriate processing
9. Rules of proper and acceptable conduct that investigators use to guide psychological research
interneurons
ethics
nurture
Delusions
10. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
Withdrawal Symptoms
authoritative parenting
difference threshold
parathyroid
11. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter
Learning
Psychotic
antagonist
Dark adaptation
12. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
nature-nurture controversy
Critical Period
Judith Langlois
Edward Thorndike
13. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable
significant difference
operational definition
confounding variable
Social Facilitation
14. The suppression of one bit of information by another
Naturalistic observation
nerve
interference
Negative Reinforcement
15. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
agonist
Saturation
Babinski reflex
16. 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
menarche
Delusions
Functional fixedness
Biofeedback
17. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
Positive Reinforcement
Self
Antisocial personality disorder
endorphins
18. Able to see objects at a distance clearly but having trouble seeing things up close; farsighted
Hyperopic
nature-nurture controversy
debriefing
cerebellum
19. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
gate control theory
sample
Genital Stage
Archetypes
20. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Rosenhan
Psychotherapy
Cognitive theories
Bulimia Nervosa
21. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)
Gender
Sensation
parathyroid
synaptic vesicles
22. Freud's first stage of personality development - from birth to about age 2 - during which the instincts of infants are focused on the mouth as the primary pleasure center.
aptitude test
Moro reflex
Oral Stage
Cognitive Dissonance
23. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary
functional MRI (fMRI)
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
school psychologist
long-term potentiation
24. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
forebrain
serotonin
Gender
Teratogen
25. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement
(cerebral) cortex
genetics
Latent Learning
Self
26. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time
Mainstreaming
Appraisal
Longitudinal Study
observer bias
27. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place
Reinforcer
Functional fixedness
schema
nervous system
28. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place
optic nerve
Zajonc & Markus
norepinephrine
working memory
29. 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.
midbrain
Demand characteristics
limbic system
Karen Horney
30. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Sociobiology
amygdala
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
hypnosis
31. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
Type B behavior
Theory of mind
consolidation
Need for achievement
32. The sense of hearing
audition
Consciousness
preconventional level of moral development
Spontaneous Recovery
33. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval
Sex
Fixed-interval Schedule
achievement test
Attitudes
34. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions
Self-efficacy
experiment
structuralism
hormone
35. 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.
Cognitive Psychology
polarization
recessive gene
Self
36. 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
Ideal Self
Size constancy
eclectic
Phineas Gage
37. The view that knowledge should be acquired through observation and often an experiment
Collective Unconscious
Brainstorming
empiricism
experiment
38. Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information - usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.
pineal gland
Dissociative amnesia
Consciousness
Ex Post Facto Design
39. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Photoreceptors
Specific phobia
pituitary gland
40. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
selective attention
Reinforcer
Altruism
Phineas Gage
41. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Self-serving Bias
Zygote
authoritative parenting
42. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings
Representative sample
Robert Zajonc
Arousal
B.F. Skinner
43. Top of the spinal column
Vulnerability
Charles Spearman
eclectic
brainstem
44. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream
parietal lobes
standard deviation
psychology
endocrine glands
45. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment
Social Need
Higher-order Conditioning
Saturation
William James
46. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
midbrain
Family therapy
photoreceptors
developmental psychologist
47. Did work on short-term memory
elaborative rehearsal
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
endocrine glands
48. 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.
Antisocial personality disorder
blind spot
Collective Unconscious
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
49. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
Darley & Latane
Client-centered therapy
Latency Stage
fovea
50. Fixed - overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.
Grammar
relative refractory period
Intrinsic motivation
Stereotypes