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AP Psychology
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1. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.
Dichromats
Mary Cover-Jones
Robert Zajonc
case study
2. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort
Creativity
Masters & Johnson
Harry Harlow
cones
3. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
nurture
human genomes
population
Phoneme
4. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
temporal lobes
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Insomnia
achievement test
5. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned
Primary Reinforcer
shaping
long-term potentiation
visual acuity
6. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
rehearsal
frontal lobes
Motivation
Little Albert
7. 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
frequency
Standard score
Defense Mechanism
8. 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
Lawrence Kohlberg
normal distribution
Backward search
anterograde amnesia
9. Twins from a single fertilized egg (zygote) with the same genetic makeup; also called monozygotic (MZ) twins
identical twins
Conformity
operational definition
Social Categorization
10. A branch of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body functions; it calms the body after sympathetic stimulation
parasympathetic nervous system
polygenic inheritance
Psychotic
Extinction (classical conditioning)
11. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
Brightness
anorexia nervosa
parathormone
graded potential
12. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.
Demand characteristics
Circadian Rhythms
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Concordance rate
13. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
Conformity
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Gender
set point
14. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
Consciousness
Psychosurgery
Gestalt psychology
state-dependent learning
15. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Little Albert
Secondary Sex Characteristics
action potential
16. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
Coping
Deviation IQ
Convergent thinking
Temperament
17. Synaptic gap or synaptic space; tiny gap between the terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron (almost never touch); location of the transfer of an impulse from one neuron to the next
Displacement
human genomes
split brain patients
synaptic cleft
18. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness
preconscious
Resolution Phase
Vasocongestion
Bonding
19. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself
Intrinsic motivation
René Descartes
psychobiology
interference
20. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed
split brain patients
behaviorism
Cross-sectional study
amygdala
21. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected
all-or-none principle
independent variable
Hermann Rorschach
Group therapy
22. 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
median
Secondary Sex Characteristics
nervous system
Carol Gilligan
23. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.
Discrimination
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Backward search
Approach-avoidance conflict
24. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
Ageism
psychoanalyst
Dream analysis
implicit memory
25. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
Representative sample
spinal cord
Psycholinguistics
survey research
26. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma
Substance Abuser
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
gene
Hermann Ebbinghaus
27. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; criticized Freud - stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses - rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts - neurotic trends; concept of 'basic anxiety'
frequency
parallel processing
Karen Horney
structuralism
28. Commonly occurring behavior can reinforce a less frequent behavior
Social Psychology
endocrine system
Premack principle
Konrad Lorenz
29. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
nerve
recessive gene
Token economy
Extrinsic motivation
30. Bundles of axons
Lewis Terman
nerve
sensory memory
efferent neuron nerve
31. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data
statistics
blind spot
Photoreceptors
Sociobiology
32. 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
memory span
Types
Longitudinal Study
33. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)
Jean Piaget
counseling psychologist
Ernst Weber
Grammar
34. Small area of retina where image is focused
Rationalization
fovea
Hermann Ebbinghaus
long-term potentiation
35. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients
Ideal Self
Collective Unconscious
short-term storage
Gazzaniga or Sperry
36. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically
Approach-avoidance conflict
Discrimination
self-fulfilling prophecy
Preoperational stage
37. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
Debriefing
Drug
Prejudice
Secondary Punisher
38. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception
nature
authoritative parenting
bottom-up processing
brainstem
39. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
placebo effect
Free association
Hans Eysenck
40. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
conventional level of moral development
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Approach-avoidance conflict
shaping
41. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.
Actor-observer Effect
ESP
bottom-up processing
recessive gene
42. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning
variable
Henry Murray
Classical Conditioning
maintenance rehearsal
43. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent
Denial
case study
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Latent Learning
44. Automatic behavior that occurs involuntarily in response to a stimulus and without prior learning and usually shows little variability from instance to instance
token economy
Conservation
Reflex
Superstitious Behavior
45. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.
Normal curve
Law of Effect
Vulnerability
Albert Bandura
46. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
Robert Sternberg
Standardization
polarization
Alfred Adler
47. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.
Transference
axon
Interpretation
Gender Schema Theory
48. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
elaborative rehearsal
amnesia
Carol Gilligan
frequency polygon
49. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory
Critical Period
Observational Learning Theory
preconscious
Von Restorff effect
50. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
replication
Withdrawal Symptoms
John B Watson
Unconditioned Response