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AP Psychology
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1. The biologically based categories of male and female
Interpersonal Attraction
functionalism
Sex
Orgasm phase
2. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior
Reflex
Bonding
clinical psychologist
mean
3. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
Carl Jung
Prevalence
midbrain
Case study
4. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
Developmental Psychology
John B Watson
emotional intelligence
dependent variable
5. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.
structuralism
Jean Piaget
variability
Conformity
6. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
Aggression
Vasocongestion
B.F. Skinner
Token economy
7. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Experimental design
naturalistic observation
replication
8. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants
Bystander Effect
Signal Detection Theory
Gibson & Walk
decay
9. 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
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Carol Gilligan
Puberty
Family therapy
10. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place
Expectancy Theories
nervous system
naturalistic observation
Vasocongestion
11. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
behavioral genetics
Prevalence
Visual cortex
Monochromats
12. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Working through
Psychophysics
neural impulse
long-term memory
13. Learning; systematic desensitization
Wolpe
Collective Unconscious
Cognitive Dissonance
Survey
14. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
Concrete operational stage
engineering psychologist
recessive gene
Signal Detection Theory
15. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Personal Fable
storage
Reactance
16. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior
motor neurons
Projective Tests
Theory of mind
difference threshold
17. 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
B.F. Skinner
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Darley & Latane
18. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
statistics
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Psycholinguistics
Logic
19. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.
split brain patients
René Descartes
Cognitive theories
Repression
20. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
Coping
Grammar
Teratogen
Latent Learning
21. 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
axon
Repression
menarche
22. Sense of smell
Positive Reinforcement
Naturalistic observation
olfaction
Decentration
23. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
frequency distribution
family studies
Working through
just noticeable difference (JND)
24. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
sensory memory
Androgynous
ex post facto study
efferent neuron nerve
25. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
Vulnerability
Brainstorming
debriefing
Adolescence
26. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Psychoneuroimmunology
Spontaneous Recovery
Representative sample
Abnormal psychology
27. 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
Hobson & McCarley
Schema
Creativity
Rape
28. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
Fetus
genotype
prenatal development
autonomic nervous system
29. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.
Grammar
Homeostasis
genotype
twin studies
30. A person's sense of being male or female
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Gender Identity
bulimia nervosa
thyroxine
31. The biochemical processes that make it easier for the neuron to respond again when it has been stimulated
Prejudice
Hobson & McCarley
long-term potentiation
Phillip Zimbardo
32. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
humanistic psychology
informed consent
sociocultural psychology
Unconscious
33. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
Language
ex post facto study
retroactive interference
working memory
34. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Sociobiology
Alfred Adler
Stimulant
35. The tendency for one characteristic of an individual to influence a tester's evaluation of other characteristics
recency effect
Creativity
memory
Halo effect
36. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
axon
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Major depressive disorder
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
37. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons
Psychotic
efferent neuron nerve
Psychosurgery
independent variable
38. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
neuropsychologist
menopause
Theory of mind
Robert Yerkes
39. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
parietal lobes
Brightness
self-actualization
Residual type of schizophrenia
40. 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
Types
Observational Learning Theory
Harry Harlow
retina
41. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose
Homeostasis
Stimulus Generalization
response bias
Prevalence
42. Motivation; believed that gastric activity as in empty stomach - was the sole basis for hunger; did research that inserted balloons in stomachs
Walter B. Cannon
Drive
Operant Conditioning
authoritative parenting
43. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
Norms
Agoraphobia
rods
Rational-emotive therapy
44. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
nonconscious
Substance Abuser
Imaginary Audience
split brain patients
45. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
Interpretation
Kenneth Clark
human genomes
Albert Bandura
46. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
Aristotle
Rooting reflex
Martin Seligman
Noam Chomsky
47. 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
Representative sample
Critical Period
Personality
Unconditioned Response
48. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
Solomon Asch
Konrad Lorenz
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
rehearsal
49. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.
Phoneme
control group
Means-ends analysis
frequency
50. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Hermann Ebbinghaus
unconscious
anorexia nervosa
Konrad Lorenz