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AP Psychology
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1. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups
Longitudinal Study
variable
behavior
Concordance rate
2. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
Kurt Lewin
Rape
Circadian Rhythms
Stimulus Discrimination
3. When a neuron is in polarization; more negative ions are inside the neuron cell membrane with a positive ions on the outside - causing a small electrical charge; release of this charge generates a neuron's impulse (signal/message)
resting potential
Brightness
Higher-order Conditioning
Consciousness
4. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
Secondary Reinforcer
Karl Wernicke
Kenneth Clark
pitch
5. 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
Albert Bandura
Cross-sectional study
Reasoning
Broca's area
6. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
Logic
Ekman & Friesen
frequency
storage
7. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.
Placebo effect
Working through
Anorexia Nervosa
achievement test
8. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
Theory of mind
Mainstreaming
myelin sheath
Bonding
9. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
Optic chiasm
Conditioned Stimulus
parietal lobes
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
10. An individual's genetic make-up
genotype
ions
endorphins
Sex
11. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Id
Double bind
Motive
Survey
12. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
postconventional level of moral development
hindbrain
Hans Eysenck
insulin
13. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
educational psychologist
monism
thyroxine
psychiatrist
14. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions
sample
Albert Ellis
Assimilation
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
15. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
David McClelland
Preoperational stage
visual acuity
myelin sheath
16. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
Socrates
Erik Erikson
Representative sample
consolidation
17. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat
Generalized anxiety disorder
René Descartes
Impression Formation
Oral Stage
18. Fixed - overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.
neuroscience
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
selective attention
Stereotypes
19. 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.
set point
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Sociobiology
Law of Effect
20. The highness or lowness of a sound
recessive gene
pitch
sympathetic nervous system
brainstem
21. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
spinal cord
Ivan Pavlov
Need for achievement
Excitement phase
22. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
Algorithm
Grasping reflex
Genital Stage
Androgynous
23. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
spinal cord
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Harry Stack Sullivan
timbre
24. Experience of the difference threshold
twin studies
just noticeable difference (JND)
forensic psychologist
neurogenesis
25. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time
nature
Psychosurgery
episodic memory
corpus callosum
26. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'
Optic chiasm
Fulfillment
adrenal glands
ESP
27. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
sample
Raw score
frequency distribution
menarche
28. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories
Experimental design
hippocampus
Benjamin Whorf
refractory period
29. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
sociocultural psychology
cohort effect
Social Interest
Validity
30. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
Actor-observer Effect
sensory adaptation
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Primary Reinforcer
31. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events
pitch
Mary Cover-Jones
Sensorimotor stage
cohort effect
32. The sense of hearing
Assimilation
audition
Kurt Lewin
chromosome
33. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness
sensory memory
industrial/organizational psychologist
hypothesis
Egocentrism
34. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
Negative Reinforcement
sensory adaptation
Fundamental Attribution Error
moral development
35. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law
moral development
Stimulus Generalization
Ernst Weber
descriptive statistics
36. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged
dendrites
ethnocentrism
social psychologist
parallel processing
37. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose
response bias
Conditioning
motivated forgetting
Sociobiology
38. Noradrenaline; chemical which is excitatory - similar to adrenaline - and affects arousal and memory; raises blood pressure by causing blood vessels to become constricted - but also carried by bloodstream to the anterior pituitary which relaxes ACTH
Sociobiology
introspection
Imaginary Audience
norepinephrine
39. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
Id
scientific method
Opponent-process theory
endocrine system
40. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
mean
memory span
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Cross-sectional Studies
41. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning
Model
all-or-none principle
theory
Classical Conditioning
42. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
Arousal
Alfred Binet
theory
Teratogen
43. The process by which the location of sound is determined
sound localization
Mary Cover-Jones
Stereotypes
Blood-Brain Barrier
44. Automatic behavior that occurs involuntarily in response to a stimulus and without prior learning and usually shows little variability from instance to instance
Double bind
Reflex
norepinephrine
parathormone
45. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
Abnormal psychology
Delusions
Manifest Content
strain studies
46. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood
retrograde amnesia
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Adolescence
psychology
47. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
hypothesis
sample
Resilience
Experimental design
48. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
introspection
Egocentrism
human genomes
rods
49. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance
Socrates
Motivation
Trichromatic theory
Robert Yerkes
50. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.
Receptive fields
Concept
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Social phobia