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AP Psychology
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1. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment
Moro reflex
Gordon Allport
Genital Stage
population
2. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross
Experimental design
placebo
Stanley Milgram
Blood-Brain Barrier
3. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
Wechsler intelligence tests
spinal cord
limbic system
schema
4. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
Mainstreaming
Conditioning
Shaping
Ageism
5. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons
Blood-Brain Barrier
Reaction Formation
Intimacy
efferent neuron nerve
6. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses
Rape
convolutions
Conflict
preconventional level of moral development
7. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
sensory memory
Fixation
Edward Bradford Titchener
Phonology
8. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
Theory of mind
Myopic
Receptive fields
Aggression
9. Does research on how people function best with machines
selective attention
Law of Effect
Resistance
engineering psychologist
10. 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
Placenta
Sensorimotor stage
Descriptive Studies
Psychoactive Drug
11. Neurotransmitter that inhibits firing of neurons; linked with Huntington's disease
Displacement
dopamine
Carl Jung
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
12. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life
industrial/organizational psychologist
Shaping
Consciousness
Withdrawal Symptoms
13. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings
Repression
Robert Zajonc
schema
engineering psychologist
14. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.
retrieval
Self-efficacy
Aaron Beck
Means-ends analysis
15. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time
axon terminal
Embryo
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Longitudinal Study
16. The process by which the location of sound is determined
Developmental Psychology
sound localization
moral development
zone of proximal development
17. Adrenaline; activates a sympathetic nervous system by making the heart beat faster - stopping digestion - enlarging pupils - sending sugar into the bloodstream - preparing a blood clot faster
epinephrine
debriefing
Stimulus Generalization
Cognitive theories
18. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary
Stimulus Discrimination
retroactive interference
Gordon Allport
Punishment
19. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
Myopic
thyroxine
endorphins
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
20. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones
retina
Cross-sectional Studies
population
social psychologist
21. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
menopause
Generalized anxiety disorder
Archetypes
Reaction Formation
22. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
Antisocial personality disorder
fovea
Attributions
Critical Period
23. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
polygenic inheritance
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Schizophrenic disorders
retroactive interference
24. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
semantic memory
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
episodic memory
Stimulus Discrimination
25. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
difference threshold
psychobiology
Bulimia Nervosa
Erik Erikson
26. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'
acetylcholine (ACh)
Social Psychology
Erik Erikson
debriefing
27. Moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication
Herman von Helmholtz
Lawrence Kohlberg
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
James-Lange theory of emotion
28. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire
Self
confounding variable
Backward search
excitatory neurotransmitter
29. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior
twin studies
eclectic
Insight therapy
functionalism
30. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
Fundamental Attribution Error
Approach-avoidance conflict
scientific method
state-dependent learning
31. Netlike system of neurons that weaves through limbic system and plays an important role in attention - arousal - and alert functions; arouses and alerts higher parts of the brain; anesthetics work by temporary shutting off RF system
Debriefing
motive
audition
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
32. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.
Orgasm phase
Superego
Debriefing
Size constancy
33. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall
normal distribution
Tolman
Premack principle
Anna O.
34. Body sense of equilibrium and balance
vestibular sense
ex post facto study
Anna O.
Collective Unconscious
35. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
Zygote
Saccades
Kurt Lewin
Placebo effect
36. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
just noticeable difference (JND)
optic nerve
Electromagnetic Radiation
hypothalamus
37. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
peripheral nervous system
David Weschler
Generalized anxiety disorder
natural selection
38. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
convolutions
Abraham Maslow
Punishment
Charles Darwin
39. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
Anna Freud
timbre
dualism
Latent Learning
40. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory
Dream analysis
Robert Rosenthal
Dissociative disorders
Placebo effect
41. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Lewis Terman
statistics
Type A behavior
42. Humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization - transcendence
parallel processing
Abraham Maslow
John Locke
Secondary Sex Characteristics
43. Depth cues that are based on one eye
monocular cues
Delusions
habituation
developmental psychologist
44. Transparent covering of the eye
Self-serving Bias
cornea
Social Cognition
eclectic
45. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age
visual acuity
fluid intelligence
school psychologist
Insomnia
46. An explanation of behavior that emphasizes the entirety of life rather than individual components of behavior and focuses on human dignity - individual choice - and self-worth
Humanistic theory
Mary Ainsworth
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Ageism
47. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
Group
encoding specificity principle
cones
axon terminal
48. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
synapse
double-blind procedure
vestibular sense
Group therapy
49. 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.
Interpersonal Attraction
Experimental design
Demand characteristics
Cognitive Psychology
50. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm
Plateau phase
genetic mapping
Ageism
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross