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AP Psychology
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1. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.
amygdala
Double bind
Punishment
Generalized anxiety disorder
2. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources
efferent neuron nerve
Coping
control group
Paul Ekman
3. 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.
Excitement phase
Kurt Lewin
elaborative rehearsal
Transference
4. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes
monism
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
DNA
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
5. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
selective attention
Plateau phase
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Gestalt psychology
6. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal
forebrain
functionalism
Alfred Binet
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
7. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.
Sublimation
William Dement
Latency Stage
frontal lobes
8. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Deviation IQ
Debriefing
independent variable
hormone
9. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Vasocongestion
twin studies
Rooting reflex
10. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Motive
Anorexia Nervosa
adaptation
participant
11. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Gender
Stimulus Discrimination
Psychoneuroimmunology
Langer & Rodin
12. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
Lucid Dream
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
strain studies
parallel processing
13. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
Social Influence
mode
population
Placenta
14. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
dominant genes
debriefing
Linguistics
Gender Schema Theory
15. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Developmental Psychology
pituitary gland
hypnosis
Symptom substitution
16. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
Puberty
Personality disorders
cohort effect
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
17. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics
representative sample
Primary Punisher
Group
scientific method
18. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.
Interpretation
Wechsler intelligence tests
Dissociative disorders
Social Influence
19. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
Deviation IQ
Ideal Self
Debriefing
thyroid gland
20. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
frontal lobes
mutation
Extrinsic motivation
Libido
21. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
Agoraphobia
identical twins
Transference
Client-centered therapy
22. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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23. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
sample
token economy
mean
Language
24. A period after firing when a neuron is returning to its normal polarize state and will only fire again if the incoming message open parentheses impulse) is stronger than usual; returning to arresting state
relative refractory period
Personality
Stress
Clark Hull
25. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Discrimination
Convergent thinking
Self-actualization
26. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'
adrenal glands
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
nerve
Teratogen
27. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
spinal cord
kinesthesis
Elizabeth Loftus
Sex
28. A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable behavior.
heritability
Aversive counterconditioning
Positive Reinforcement
Grammar
29. Able to see objects at a distance clearly but having trouble seeing things up close; farsighted
Babinski reflex
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Hyperopic
Edward Thorndike
30. A donut ring-shaped of loosely connected structures located in the forebrain between the central core and cerebral hemispheres; consists of: septum - cingulate gyrus - endowments - hypothalamus - and to campus - and amygdala; associated with emotions
limbic system
Aaron Beck
human genomes
Temperament
31. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
Electromagnetic Radiation
Trichromats
temporal lobes
Psycholinguistics
32. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
positive psychology
Type B behavior
demand characteristics
33. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)
blind spot
Charles Darwin
informed consent
John B Watson
34. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
Placebo effect
response bias
Withdrawal Symptoms
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
35. 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.
Cognitive theories
confounding variable
hypnosis
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
36. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory
retrieval
Robert Zajonc
Phallic Stage
forebrain
37. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent
case study
emotional intelligence
pupil
motivated forgetting
38. 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
industrial/organizational psychologist
episodic memory
Lawrence Kohlberg
frequency distribution
39. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
Variable-ratio Schedule
pupil
monism
Alfred Adler
40. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
Prevalence
Elaboration Likelihood Model
insulin
Convergent thinking
41. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
Mary Ainsworth
functional MRI (fMRI)
temporal lobes
Raw score
42. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
Anxiety
Bulimia Nervosa
lens
Gazzaniga or Sperry
43. 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
Withdrawal Symptoms
Hermann Rorschach
Langer & Rodin
graded potential
44. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
Phineas Gage
recessive gene
Equity Theory
interneurons
45. Process by which a neutral stimulus takes on conditioned properties through pairing with a conditioned stimulus
participant
Sex
Syntax
Higher-order Conditioning
46. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.
Stanley Schachter
lens
Absolute threshold
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
47. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction
Hermann Rorschach
genetic mapping
Law of Effect
cochlea
48. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
Grammar
Erik Erikson
Fetus
Dream
49. 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.
Reactance
Paul Ekman
Child abuse
conventional level of moral development
50. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
maintenance rehearsal
John B Watson
significant difference
pineal gland