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AP Psychology
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1. An individual's genetic make-up
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Residual type of schizophrenia
genotype
Problem Solving
2. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Emotion
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
schema
3. 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
Saturation
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
elaborative rehearsal
Carol Gilligan
4. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh
Concept
case study
Circadian Rhythms
Concrete operational stage
5. In emerging Theo psychology that focuses on positive experiences; includes subjective well-being - self-determination - the relationship between positive emotions and physical health - and the factors that allow individuals - communities - and societ
Rosenhan
positive psychology
encoding specificity principle
dominant genes
6. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain
David Rosenhan
convolutions
sensory adaptation
Attachment
7. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
Impression Formation
Premack principle
glial cells
Ex Post Facto Design
8. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval
Secondary Sex Characteristics
lens
Alzheimer's Disease
Fixed-interval Schedule
9. 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
Preoperational stage
mutation
Norms
Dream analysis
10. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones
experimenter bias
retina
Karl Wernicke
Masters & Johnson
11. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.
triarchic theory of intelligence
William Dement
Creativity
Self-actualization
12. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ
recency effect
Androgynous
ex post facto study
Cross-sectional Studies
13. First menstrual period
menarche
Assimilation
synaptic vesicles
Size constancy
14. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions
statistics
Dementia
frequency
somatic nervous system
15. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Approach-approach conflict
Light
myelin sheath
16. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception
Need for achievement
Generalized anxiety disorder
bottom-up processing
frequency distribution
17. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
Coping
independent variable
Decentration
Variable-ratio Schedule
18. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter
association areas
Dream analysis
DNA
antagonist
19. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
descriptive statistics
Embryo
health psychologist
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
20. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.
Trait
psychobiology
interference
interneurons
21. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.
Social Categorization
informed consent
Dream analysis
Prototype
22. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
polygenic inheritance
Deviation IQ
strain studies
Intelligence
23. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
habituation
procedural memory
sensory memory
Concrete operational stage
24. 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.
Concordance rate
synapse
Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive Psychology
25. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.
authoritarian parenting
Psychoanalysis
Impression Formation
DNA
26. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information
postconventional level of moral development
Puberty
retroactive interference
case study
27. In psychoanalysis - an unwillingness to cooperate - which a patient signals by showing a reluctance to provide the therapist with information or to help the therapist understand or interpret a situation.
Resistance
Survey
cochlea
Intrinsic motivation
28. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.
dopamine
Hue
aphasia
Bipolar disorder
29. 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
long-term memory
Concordance rate
Critical Period
twin studies
30. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance
Robert Yerkes
Standardization
Heuristics
Anal Stage
31. The expression of genes
corpus callosum
insulin
phenotype
Behavior therapy
32. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants
Tolerance
Gibson & Walk
Androgynous
Fundamental Attribution Error
33. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood
Projective Tests
Photoreceptors
dominant genes
Puberty
34. Body sense of equilibrium and balance
vestibular sense
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
aversive conditioning
35. The suppression of one bit of information by another
interference
Need
Anna O.
replication
36. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
resting potential
proactive interference
Cross-sectional Studies
Kenneth Clark
37. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative
David Rosenhan
Validity
family studies
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
38. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
social psychologist
Aristotle
psychobiology
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
39. 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
Personal Fable
action potential
Concept
family studies
40. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.
Aristotle
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Stimulus Discrimination
Grammar
41. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement
(cerebral) cortex
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
maintenance rehearsal
forebrain
42. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Ernst Weber
Excitement phase
working memory
43. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher
lens
Defense Mechanism
Psychophysics
Secondary Punisher
44. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
Anna Freud
insulin
Burnout
Trichromats
45. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
endorphins
Equity Theory
difference threshold
cones
46. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
twin studies
Fetus
psychoanalytic
sensory adaptation
47. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Monochromats
Debriefing
rehearsal
dendrites
48. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Light
Symptom substitution
Gordon Allport
Robert Rosenthal
49. An individual who takes part in an experiment and whose behavior is observed as part of the data collection process
participant
Reflex
Imaginary Audience
neurotransmitters
50. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
Bipolar disorder
theory
psychiatrist
Signal Detection Theory