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AP Psychology
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1. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
Stanley Schachter
spinal cord
Deindividuation
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
2. Learning; systematic desensitization
fluid intelligence
Wolpe
Embryo
thyroxine
3. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
pupil
functional MRI (fMRI)
aphasia
Motivation
4. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Langer & Rodin
hypothalamus
functionalism
inhibitory neurotransmitter
5. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids
parathormone
recessive gene
Karl Wernicke
Subliminal perception
6. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
Free association
Counterconditioning
parallel processing
Anal Stage
7. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
Mary Ainsworth
Mary Cover-Jones
Psychoactive Drug
Deviation IQ
8. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands
preconventional level of moral development
Arousal
James-Lange theory of emotion
antagonist
9. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Depressive disorders
Debriefing
Norms
Alzheimer's Disease
10. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
Skinner Box
Brainstorming
chunks
parathyroid
11. Morality based on consequences to self
preconventional level of moral development
memory
Raw score
Brainstorming
12. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
motive
random sample
Mainstreaming
binocular cues
13. Shift in electrical charge in a tiny area of the neuron (temporary); transmits a long cell membranes leaving neuron and polarized state; needs higher than normal threshold of excitation to fire
mutation
graded potential
Variable-interval Schedule
nonconscious
14. 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
synaptic vesicles
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
working memory
Experimental design
15. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
Syntax
Temperament
postconventional level of moral development
Schizophrenic disorders
16. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.
Intimacy
Personal Fable
neuropsychologist
Altruism
17. The biologically based categories of male and female
Dark adaptation
fraternal twins
Sex
gonads
18. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
Aaron Beck
Descriptive Studies
bulimia nervosa
cognitive psychology
19. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Normal curve
Brainstorming
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
cohort effect
20. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
Absolute threshold
Brainstorming
social psychologist
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
21. 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.
informed consent
binocular cues
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Stereotypes
22. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
dopamine
human genomes
Health psychology
Delusions
23. 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
hypnosis
association areas
Convergent thinking
Schizophrenic disorders
24. Intelligence; found that specific mental talents were highly correlated - concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled 'g' (general ability)
Charles Spearman
control group
health psychologist
Standardization
25. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
Archetypes
Altruism
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Hyperopic
26. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood
functionalism
Critical Period
Masters & Johnson
Adolescence
27. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
adaptation
Id
Dissociative amnesia
aptitude test
28. 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.
Self
Approach-approach conflict
encoding specificity principle
introspection
29. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
Stimulus Generalization
Insight therapy
Oral Stage
Experimental design
30. 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
significant difference
Moro reflex
Psychodynamically
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
31. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe
Biofeedback
Carol Gilligan
memory span
DNA
32. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
Representative sample
Abnormal psychology
participant
selection studies
33. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s
corpus callosum
Psycholinguistics
Charles Spearman
interneurons
34. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
frequency polygon
Konrad Lorenz
bulimia nervosa
Impression Formation
35. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness
Martin Seligman
temporal lobes
memory span
Antisocial personality disorder
36. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
long-term potentiation
anterograde amnesia
placebo effect
Hue
37. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
behavioral genetics
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Babinski reflex
Hobson & McCarley
38. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
retrograde amnesia
John B Watson
placebo
elaborative rehearsal
39. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
Personality
Anal Stage
Model
Plateau phase
40. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress
Holmes & Rahe
Latent Learning
Extrinsic motivation
efferent neuron nerve
41. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.
preconscious
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
self-actualization
Wolpe
42. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
preconscious
Experimental design
percentile score
Transference
43. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
Anal Stage
participant
Adolescence
hypothalamus
44. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning
Projection
Howard Gardner
hindbrain
survey research
45. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
agonist
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
explicit memory
46. Reflex that causes a newborn to turn the head toward a light touch on lips or cheek
Types
Rooting reflex
Obedience
Dissociative disorders
47. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Signal Detection Theory
hypnosis
Robert Rosenthal
action potential
48. 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
Biofeedback
Need
Percentile score
Halo effect
49. The cessation of the ability to reproduce
menopause
David Rosenhan
Morality
neurotransmitters
50. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives
Dream analysis
Approach-approach conflict
variability
Karl Wernicke