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AP Psychology
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1. Transparent covering of the eye
cornea
Fundamental Attribution Error
Gestalt psychology
Self-efficacy
2. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
replication
Sucking reflex
Withdrawal Symptoms
survey research
3. Depth cues that are based on one eye
Self-efficacy
hypothesis
Variable-interval Schedule
monocular cues
4. Holds information for processing; fragile; also called short term memory or working memory
short-term storage
Ego
neuropsychologist
Trichromats
5. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep
instinct
Insomnia
significant difference
pons
6. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
control group
Carl Jung
Hobson & McCarley
Primary Punisher
7. A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable behavior.
Social Cognition
Aversive counterconditioning
Gibson & Walk
response bias
8. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
Subgoal analysis
significant difference
emotional intelligence
blind spot
9. Style of parenting marked by emotional coldness - imposing rules and expecting obedience
authoritarian parenting
Normal curve
Divergent thinking
frequency
10. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
sociocultural psychology
bottom-up processing
Projective Tests
psychoanalyst
11. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
interneurons
sensory memory
neural plasticity
rods
12. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
interference
Working through
Double-blind techniques
Metal retardation
13. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
Altruism
mean
bulimia nervosa
Humanistic theory
14. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
replication
Benjamin Whorf
Myopic
pineal gland
15. Personality assessment; created the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) with Christina Morgan - stated that the need to achieve varied in strength in different people and influenced their tendency to approach and evaluate their own performances
declarative memory
split brain patients
Henry Murray
Solomon Asch
16. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
Morpheme
spinal cord
Withdrawal Symptoms
Prototype
17. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions
nervous system
Alfred Adler
triarchic theory of intelligence
proactive interference
18. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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19. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged
Assessment
ethnocentrism
inferential statistics
neuroscience
20. 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
fovea
Unconditioned Response
Prejudice
peripheral nervous system
21. Organizing sensory information so it can be processed by the nervous system
serotonin
Circadian Rhythms
maintenance rehearsal
encoding
22. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.
Prejudice
heritability
episodic memory
cones
23. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches
triarchic theory of intelligence
genetics
Anna O.
eclectic
24. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
sports psychologist
Fixed-interval Schedule
demand characteristics
inhibitory neurotransmitter
25. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
Tolerance
maintenance rehearsal
Stress
Reactance
26. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Equity Theory
Stimulant
psychobiology
27. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response
transfer appropriate processing
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Client-centered therapy
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
28. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
sympathetic nervous system
Leon Festinger
Standardization
Psychosurgery
29. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
Subgoal analysis
Social Loafing
humanistic psychology
pseudoscience
30. Pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning) - stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls - children mimicked play
unconscious
binocular cues
procedural memory
Albert Bandura
31. Learning; systematic desensitization
nervous system
Wolpe
Lev Vygotsky
Need
32. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching
Grasping reflex
Id
Imaginary Audience
receptor site
33. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.
Phoneme
schema
mutation
Absolute threshold
34. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age
Dementia
Ego
fluid intelligence
Denial
35. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
Aversive counterconditioning
consolidation
Logic
Problem Solving
36. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals
variable
Excitement phase
John B Watson
convolutions
37. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data
Factor analysis
forebrain
Electromagnetic Radiation
autonomic nervous system
38. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
statistics
Convergent thinking
Phonology
cognitive psychology
39. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement
photoreceptors
Lev Vygotsky
experiment
Transference
40. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes
Norms
Light
Egocentrism
genetic mapping
41. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
Repression
Anna O.
rehearsal
Consciousness
42. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
Photoreceptors
Gestalt psychology
Fundamental Attribution Error
Latent Learning
43. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands
axon
Variable-interval Schedule
psychometrician
behavior
44. Electrically charged particles found both inside and outside a neuron; negative ions are found inside the cell membrane in a polarized neuron
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
ions
Egocentrism
45. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience
imagery
Health psychology
Defense Mechanism
nervous system
46. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Denial
procedural memory
health psychologist
47. A need or want that causes someone to act
Functional fixedness
Babinski reflex
Longitudinal Study
motive
48. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
aversive conditioning
fraternal twins
Secondary Reinforcer
Need for achievement
49. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
Syntax
Reaction Formation
aptitude test
fovea
50. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
unconscious
receptor site
bulimia nervosa
significant difference