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AP Psychology
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1. A mass of tissue that is attached to the wall f the uterus and connected to the developing fetus by the umbilical cord; it supplies nutrients and eliminates waste products
Perception
Placenta
psychologist
Myopic
2. Creates a computerized image using x-rays passed through the brain
Sensation
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Morality
moral development
3. Perspective that seeks to explain and predict behaviors by analyzing how the human brain developed over time - how it functions - and how input from the environment affects human behaviors
glial cells
evolutionary psychology
Conditioned Stimulus
zone of proximal development
4. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings
functional MRI (fMRI)
heritability
Robert Zajonc
Edward Bradford Titchener
5. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
family studies
Anna O.
Means-ends analysis
health psychologist
6. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
elaborative rehearsal
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Aggression
nature-nurture controversy
7. Transparent covering of the eye
cornea
Unconscious
William James
participant
8. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
Free association
functionalism
dopamine
sympathetic nervous system
9. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
Masters & Johnson
Social phobia
sociocultural psychology
long-term memory
10. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.
Body Language
Validity
Phineas Gage
Prevalence
11. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
Object permanence
endorphins
gonads
Psychophysics
12. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function
Vulnerability
Phineas Gage
Type B behavior
Subgoal analysis
13. 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.
Noam Chomsky
Cognitive theories
Standardization
Grasping reflex
14. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.
Subliminal perception
proactive interference
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Bipolar disorder
15. 'Wernicke's area'; discovered area of left temporal lobe that involved language understanding: person damaged in this area uses correct words but they do not make sense
Karl Wernicke
Reinforcer
Gender Schema Theory
placebo
16. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.
Double bind
Experimental design
identical twins
Dissociative amnesia
17. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and longstanding maladaptive behaviors that typically cause stress and/or social or occupational problems.
Personality disorders
monocular cues
Langer & Rodin
Spontaneous Recovery
18. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
motor neurons
Abnormal psychology
measure of central tendency
standard deviation
19. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
Anna Freud
functionalism
percentile score
selective attention
20. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.
sample
Semantics
Debriefing
Stanley Schachter
21. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Albert Ellis
Dissociative amnesia
motive
Double-blind techniques
22. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
Deindividuation
self-fulfilling prophecy
Client-centered therapy
Attachment
23. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
prenatal development
Burnout
neuroscience
retrieval
24. Humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization - transcendence
Leon Festinger
sensory neurons
Abraham Maslow
gonads
25. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.
Concept
Noam Chomsky
psychiatrist
Social Interest
26. A person's experiences in the environment
cognitive psychology
correlational research
nurture
Edward Bradford Titchener
27. 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
set point
antagonist
Coping
Demand characteristics
28. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
midbrain
clinical psychologist
control group
Phillip Zimbardo
29. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
Ego
Norms
endocrine glands
Receptive fields
30. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
dopamine
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Phobic disorders
thalamus
31. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
Personality disorders
Kenneth Clark
developmental psychologist
Libido
32. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues
fovea
forensic psychologist
Conflict
standard deviation
33. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning
flashbulb memories
schema
Phineas Gage
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
34. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
developmental psychologist
sports psychologist
crystallized intelligence
Langer & Rodin
35. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.
Wechsler intelligence tests
Mediation
Extrinsic motivation
Resolution Phase
36. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
myelin sheath
Paul Ekman
preconscious
heritability
37. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
Ideal Self
Rape
elaborative rehearsal
selection studies
38. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
somatic nervous system
recessive gene
Sucking reflex
Symptom substitution
39. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after predetermined but varying amounts of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once after each interval
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
schema
Variable-interval Schedule
Gibson & Walk
40. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
Masters & Johnson
Nonverbal Communication
Bipolar disorder
crystallized intelligence
41. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
significant difference
functionalism
Norms
Consciousness
42. Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people - ideas - or objects that are based on a person's past experiences - shape his or her future behavior - and are evaluative in nature.
frequency
functionalism
Attitudes
Electromagnetic Radiation
43. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
Alzheimer's Disease
amnesia
Sensation
school psychologist
44. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
Syntax
epinephrine
anorexia nervosa
experimental group
45. 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.
Psychoactive Drug
David McClelland
John Garcia
Backward search
46. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.
instinct
hypnosis
schema
Psychotherapy
47. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
Darley & Latane
Decision making
Self-perception Theory
Social Cognition
48. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.
Francis Galton
Walter B. Cannon
Altruism
cornea
49. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
triarchic theory of intelligence
Percentile score
Rooting reflex
polygenic inheritance
50. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Psycholinguistics
Motive
clinical psychologist
pupil