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AP Psychology
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1. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.
Sublimation
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Sociobiology
decay
2. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age
Representative sample
Dream analysis
John Garcia
Self
3. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
Social Psychology
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Personality disorders
selective attention
4. The depth and richness of a hue determined by determined by the homogeneity of the wavelengths contained in the reflected light; also known as purity.
Premack principle
Factor analysis
Saturation
Mainstreaming
5. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.
serotonin
Anna O.
Spontaneous Recovery
Rape
6. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
James-Lange theory of emotion
Rational-emotive therapy
Bulimia Nervosa
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
7. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them
long-term potentiation
dependent variable
motivated forgetting
Rooting reflex
8. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information
Plateau phase
memory
Validity
Archetypes
9. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients
Robert Rosenthal
Deindividuation
Gazzaniga or Sperry
psychoanalytic
10. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
schema
Harry Harlow
polygenic inheritance
hypothesis
11. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
excitatory neurotransmitter
decay
experiment
Approach-avoidance conflict
12. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
Self-efficacy
mean
DNA
audition
13. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
action potential
Depressive disorders
William Sheldon
genotype
14. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine
thyroid gland
Reaction Formation
Mediation
Cognitive theories
15. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
Trichromats
Elizabeth Loftus
decay
Unconditioned Stimulus
16. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
pupil
Consciousness
Model
hypothalamus
17. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood
Adolescence
Hans Eysenck
optic nerve
dendrites
18. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking
variability
cognitive psychology
retrieval
Child abuse
19. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
fraternal twins
aversive conditioning
cornea
Psychodynamically
20. Theorist who both aided in the development of the trichromatic theory of color perception and Place theory of pitch perception.
descriptive statistics
Temperament
Herman von Helmholtz
Primary Reinforcer
21. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes
heritability
Lev Vygotsky
Extinction (operant conditioning)
transfer appropriate processing
22. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they believe they are so special and unique that other people cannot understand them and risky behaviors will not harm them
eclectic
Raymond Cattell
autonomic nervous system
Personal Fable
23. Establish the relationship between two variables
Fixation
Approach-avoidance conflict
correlational research
Reliability
24. A test designed to predict a person's future performance
authoritarian parenting
Charles Darwin
aptitude test
memory
25. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments
Decentration
Deviation IQ
Group
behaviorism
26. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
cones
Saccades
gonads
encoding
27. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state
Resolution Phase
Conservation
Sucking reflex
chunks
28. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization
Unconditioned Response
chunks
Representative sample
polarization
29. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
midbrain
(cerebral) cortex
Unconscious
humanistic psychology
30. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area
Zajonc & Markus
Group therapy
gustation
Orgasm phase
31. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
motor neurons
Thanatology
authoritative parenting
resting potential
32. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
psychoanalytic
Logic
Dichromats
Raymond Cattell
33. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates
Model
Lev Vygotsky
human genomes
Clark Hull
34. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
Group
episodic memory
Observational Learning Theory
Attachment
35. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain
convolutions
Demand characteristics
Sensorimotor stage
Depressive disorders
36. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research
Lev Vygotsky
schema
Observational Learning Theory
introspection
37. 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
Hermann Ebbinghaus
procedural memory
Carol Gilligan
Lucid Dream
38. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
acetylcholine (ACh)
Personality disorders
Temperament
functionalism
39. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never
Rosenhan
dependent variable
Defense Mechanism
cohort effect
40. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
Impression Formation
psychoanalyst
Jean Piaget
Representative sample
41. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues
Zygote
forensic psychologist
Insomnia
levels-of-processing approach
42. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
midbrain
Kurt Lewin
insulin
Unconditioned Response
43. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher
behavior
neuropsychologist
Hobson & McCarley
Secondary Punisher
44. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm
Stimulus Discrimination
Personal Fable
Double bind
Plateau phase
45. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand
Dream analysis
graded potential
Grasping reflex
Prosocial Behavior
46. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
Anxiety
Elizabeth Loftus
nonconscious
Light
47. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp
motive
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Approach-avoidance conflict
Dream analysis
48. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
Stimulus Discrimination
Means-ends analysis
Formal operational stage
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
49. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
EEG (electroencephalogram)
retrieval
Obedience
Survey
50. The tendency for one characteristic of an individual to influence a tester's evaluation of other characteristics
Archetypes
Agoraphobia
fluid intelligence
Halo effect