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AP Psychology
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1. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information
proactive interference
memory span
Equity Theory
epinephrine
2. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.
Child abuse
Group therapy
Altruism
Charles Spearman
3. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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4. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
retrieval
Monochromats
Clark Hull
insulin
5. Bundles of axons
strain studies
Embryo
nerve
procedural memory
6. Did work on short-term memory
experimenter bias
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Sensorimotor stage
Altruism
7. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body
Charles Spearman
Stereotypes
Representative sample
kinesthesis
8. Theorist who both aided in the development of the trichromatic theory of color perception and Place theory of pitch perception.
demand characteristics
Herman von Helmholtz
Konrad Lorenz
crystallized intelligence
9. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state
Equity Theory
Anal Stage
Resolution Phase
psychoanalytic
10. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Attributions
procedural memory
hormone
11. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
Dissociative disorders
Reliability
Deviation IQ
René Descartes
12. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher
Secondary Punisher
Experimental design
Lev Vygotsky
Absolute threshold
13. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.
Depressive disorders
participant
Trichromatic theory
Opponent-process theory
14. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
procedural memory
Negative Reinforcement
Herman von Helmholtz
Ego
15. A test score that has not been transformed or converted in any way
opponent-process theory of emotion
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Premack principle
Raw score
16. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
Attachment
anterograde amnesia
Variable-ratio Schedule
Residual type of schizophrenia
17. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
Cognitive Psychology
Bulimia Nervosa
Extrinsic motivation
strain studies
18. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected
Anxiety
independent variable
engineering psychologist
neural plasticity
19. The behavior of giving up or not responding to punishment - exhibited by people or animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they have no control
Learned Helplessness
Gender stereotype
Monochromats
retina
20. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
Vasocongestion
agonist
long-term memory
dependent variable
21. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory
retrieval
limbic system
Displacement
Need for achievement
22. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
Self
Longitudinal Study
schema
brain
23. The cessation of the ability to reproduce
menopause
Hyperopic
visual acuity
retina
24. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
working memory
decay
Impression Formation
Konrad Lorenz
25. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.
Drug
all-or-none principle
Depressive disorders
Dementia
26. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics
Reactance
(cerebral) cortex
cones
representative sample
27. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
Vasocongestion
Phineas Gage
cerebellum
Ernst Weber
28. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
William Dement
Divergent thinking
Emotion
debriefing
29. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions
emotional intelligence
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
prenatal development
Lawrence Kohlberg
30. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
Raymond Cattell
selection studies
placebo
Lev Vygotsky
31. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
Benjamin Whorf
ethnocentrism
behaviorism
interneurons
32. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe
midbrain
Transduction
statistics
Residual type of schizophrenia
33. An individual who takes part in an experiment and whose behavior is observed as part of the data collection process
Phobic disorders
Resilience
participant
psychometrician
34. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Concrete operational stage
state-dependent learning
35. A state of mental discomfort arising from a discrepancy between two or more of a person's beliefs or between a person's beliefs and overt behavior.
Conflict
Theory of mind
Cognitive Dissonance
Intelligence
36. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
fraternal twins
Latency Stage
brainstem
ex post facto study
37. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.
Theory of mind
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
cochlea
Insight therapy
38. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable
confounding variable
Reinforcer
corpus callosum
Mary Ainsworth
39. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)
correlation coefficient
Lawrence Kohlberg
neural impulse
phenotype
40. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
Leon Festinger
Concrete operational stage
Robert Zajonc
chromosome
41. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
Variable-interval Schedule
Phallic Stage
monism
pitch
42. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
adaptation
Kenneth Clark
conventional level of moral development
functionalism
43. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
anterograde amnesia
efferent neuron nerve
mean
Placenta
44. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes
genetic mapping
Coping
Morality
Prosocial Behavior
45. The tendency of people in a group to seek concurrence with one another when reaching a decision - rather than effectively evaluating options.
Groupthink
Albert Bandura
long-term memory
Gordon Allport
46. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes
Socrates
endocrine system
population
recessive gene
47. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
dominant genes
somatic nervous system
unconscious
Group
48. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time
episodic memory
Burnout
Rape
Brainstorming
49. 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.
Behavior therapy
synaptic cleft
Prosocial Behavior
Body Language
50. Primary area for processing visual information
case study
token economy
Konrad Lorenz
occipital lobes