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AP Psychology
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1. A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable behavior.
Kurt Lewin
efferent neuron nerve
Absolute threshold
Aversive counterconditioning
2. The sense of hearing
Case study
audition
John Garcia
John B Watson
3. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons
B.F. Skinner
Assimilation
frequency distribution
Dichromats
4. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems
Edward Bradford Titchener
psychoanalyst
unconscious
Aristotle
5. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories
hippocampus
Deindividuation
Jean Piaget
Shaping
6. The tendency of people in a group to seek concurrence with one another when reaching a decision - rather than effectively evaluating options.
confounding variable
Grasping reflex
hippocampus
Groupthink
7. A donut ring-shaped of loosely connected structures located in the forebrain between the central core and cerebral hemispheres; consists of: septum - cingulate gyrus - endowments - hypothalamus - and to campus - and amygdala; associated with emotions
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Fundamental Attribution Error
Resilience
limbic system
8. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
explicit memory
correlational research
normal distribution
Approach-avoidance conflict
9. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality
Wernicke's area
authoritarian parenting
forebrain
twin studies
10. 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
Consciousness
Placebo effect
graded potential
epinephrine
11. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
bulimia nervosa
social psychologist
positive psychology
engineering psychologist
12. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
Libido
Self-actualization
consolidation
Reinforcer
13. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.
Interpretation
Anna O.
Stress
Consciousness
14. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
Syntax
Rationalization
binocular cues
Secondary Punisher
15. An unconscious way of reducing anxiety by distorting perceptions of reality.
case study
timbre
Superego
Defense Mechanism
16. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
zone of proximal development
Free association
Perception
psychology
17. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
polygenic inheritance
Phoneme
Latent Learning
Latency Stage
18. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
Phineas Gage
Phallic Stage
Rational-emotive therapy
Assimilation
19. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never
Unconscious
Rosenhan
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Martin Seligman
20. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
Logic
Alfred Adler
sympathetic nervous system
Lev Vygotsky
21. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
John Locke
Elaboration Likelihood Model
bottom-up processing
22. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.
Algorithm
Actor-observer Effect
interference
retrieval
23. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they believe they are so special and unique that other people cannot understand them and risky behaviors will not harm them
Stimulant
Conflict
Orgasm phase
Personal Fable
24. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
retina
Brainstorming
David Weschler
Metal retardation
25. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Anal Stage
René Descartes
adrenal glands
health psychologist
26. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.
Conditioning
Assessment
Edward Bradford Titchener
Psychosurgery
27. Electrically charged particles found both inside and outside a neuron; negative ions are found inside the cell membrane in a polarized neuron
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Excitement phase
(cerebral) cortex
ions
28. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.
encoding
Altruism
Solomon Asch
science
29. A descriptive statistic that measures the variability of data from the mean of the sample
Body Language
psychobiology
ethnocentrism
standard deviation
30. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
Concrete operational stage
Motive
ex post facto study
Reflex
31. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives
Nonverbal Communication
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Client-centered therapy
Approach-approach conflict
32. Carries impulses from the eye to the brain
cochlea
hypnosis
primacy effect
optic nerve
33. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism
epinephrine
selection studies
Primary Punisher
school psychologist
34. 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
Insight therapy
Critical Period
engineering psychologist
Attributions
35. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.
Stanley Milgram
identical twins
pons
Trichromats
36. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
Self-efficacy
Psychoactive Drug
Martin Seligman
anorexia nervosa
37. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'
Repression
Karl Wernicke
adrenal glands
Decentration
38. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.
William Dement
Hans Eysenck
corpus callosum
health psychologist
39. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)
Gibson & Walk
blind spot
Longitudinal Study
Solomon Asch
40. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation
amnesia
Biofeedback
science
Fixed-interval Schedule
41. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory
Gibson & Walk
Cognitive Dissonance
levels-of-processing approach
Dementia
42. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
nervous system
Fulfillment
school psychologist
43. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
dendrites
Charles Spearman
Karl Wernicke
unconscious
44. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data
Convergent thinking
Cognitive Psychology
psychometrician
dependent variable
45. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction
proactive interference
Discrimination
action potential
Secondary Sex Characteristics
46. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
frequency
Hermann Ebbinghaus
interneurons
47. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Adolescence
median
hindbrain
48. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.
Token economy
olfaction
implicit memory
Repression
49. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand
state-dependent learning
Grasping reflex
Operant Conditioning
cohort effect
50. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
excitatory neurotransmitter
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Edward Thorndike
measure of central tendency