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AP Psychology
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1. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary
Gordon Allport
Extrinsic motivation
Aversive counterconditioning
normal distribution
2. Ends of axons that secrete neurotransmitters
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
Demand characteristics
pituitary gland
menarche
3. Response to the belief that the IV will have an effect - rather than the IV's actual effect - which can be a confounding variable
Anorexia Nervosa
William James
Edward Thorndike
placebo effect
4. 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 -
Socrates
Insomnia
Cross-sectional study
thyroxine
5. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits
Reliability
Standard score
Ernst Weber
gene
6. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
Health psychology
Double bind
Darley & Latane
Alfred Binet
7. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe
William James
Francis Galton
natural selection
Heuristics
8. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
Law of Effect
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
experimenter bias
9. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
Gender Schema Theory
Hermann Ebbinghaus
neurotransmitters
Panic Attack
10. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
Group therapy
Latent Learning
glial cells
brain
11. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data
statistics
polarization
psychiatrist
Self-efficacy
12. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met
informed consent
Depressive disorders
Fixed-interval Schedule
Conditioned Stimulus
13. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
Negative Reinforcement
Means-ends analysis
instinct
implicit memory
14. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Oral Stage
Electromagnetic Radiation
neurotransmitters
Monochromats
15. A group of psychological disorders characterized by a lack of reality testing and by deterioration of social and intellectual functioning and personality beginning before age 45 and lasting at least 6 months
endorphins
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Agoraphobia
Schizophrenic disorders
16. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior
Emotion
Conditioning
nervous system
Decision making
17. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment
Learning
working memory
Sensation
blind spot
18. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information
Gender
family studies
aptitude test
proactive interference
19. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.
scientific method
Opponent-process theory
cohort effect
Learned helplessness
20. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
Sublimation
Biofeedback
Myopic
Moro reflex
21. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Language
episodic memory
selective attention
Motive
22. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
Albert Bandura
industrial/organizational psychologist
Electromagnetic Radiation
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
23. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment
Extrinsic motivation
Agoraphobia
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Standard score
24. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.
Psychotic
genetics
David McClelland
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
25. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
Behavior therapy
parathormone
theory
Type B behavior
26. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
Placenta
procedural memory
authoritative parenting
ions
27. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
Ex Post Facto Design
Aversive counterconditioning
Hobson & McCarley
Unconditioned Stimulus
28. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.
Cross-sectional Studies
long-term memory
Interpretation
Bipolar disorder
29. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.
William Dement
Metal retardation
Child abuse
Social Categorization
30. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
David McClelland
health psychologist
Means-ends analysis
Attachment
31. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
Depressive disorders
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Concrete operational stage
sensory adaptation
32. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
action potential
experimenter bias
Gender
Henry Murray
33. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior
action potential
Family therapy
endocrine glands
Theory of mind
34. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
Social Influence
Repression
Major depressive disorder
state-dependent learning
35. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
social psychologist
genetics
Creativity
thyroxine
36. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics
evolutionary psychology
Vulnerability
short-term storage
representative sample
37. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening
Lucid Dream
Counterconditioning
ESP
demand characteristics
38. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
Anna O.
sensory memory
audition
Agoraphobia
39. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits
Harry Stack Sullivan
Stimulus Discrimination
Latent Learning
Transduction
40. Psychoanalytic technique in which a person is asked to report to the therapist his or her thoughts and feelings as they occur - regardless of how trivial - illogical - or objectionable their content may appear.
Conditioning
Egocentrism
Free association
Grammar
41. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.
Raymond Cattell
Displacement
psychology
Social Psychology
42. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
mean
encoding
Delusions
43. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
temporal lobes
memory
Anorexia Nervosa
Variable-ratio Schedule
44. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.
Prosocial Behavior
Insomnia
recessive gene
Dementia
45. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
William Dement
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Kenneth Clark
pineal gland
46. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.
Social Loafing
Holmes & Rahe
Transduction
Thanatology
47. Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.
declarative memory
anorexia nervosa
Group Polarization
Electromagnetic Radiation
48. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned
Sociobiology
Orgasm phase
Conditioning
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
49. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.
Prevalence
Norms
Puberty
Rational-emotive therapy
50. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives
Robert Sternberg
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Charles Spearman
Electromagnetic Radiation