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AP Psychology
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1. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
Schizophrenic disorders
hypothesis
empiricism
retrograde amnesia
2. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval
Fixed-interval Schedule
demand characteristics
Jean Piaget
health psychologist
3. An individual's genetic make-up
Coping
Law of Effect
recency effect
genotype
4. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.
Hue
Orgasm phase
Superego
Elizabeth Loftus
5. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
Fetus
Unconditioned Response
Hobson & McCarley
Heritability
6. 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
empiricism
Socrates
Dream
7. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons
Nonverbal Communication
somatic nervous system
Vasocongestion
B.F. Skinner
8. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary
polygenic inheritance
Gordon Allport
Subliminal perception
Types
9. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Mary Ainsworth
Symptom substitution
Harry Stack Sullivan
10. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Aaron Beck
descriptive statistics
Transduction
11. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
educational psychologist
self-fulfilling prophecy
cognitive psychology
social psychologist
12. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants
Vasocongestion
Cognitive theories
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Negative Reinforcement
13. 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
Burnout
Self-perception Theory
graded potential
Psychodynamically
14. The study of the lifelong - often age-related - processes of change in the physical - cognitive - moral - emotional - and social domains of functioning; such changes are rooted in biological mechanisms that are genetically controlled - as well as in
Oral Stage
amygdala
thalamus
Developmental Psychology
15. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
timbre
token economy
Law of Effect
Stimulant
16. 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.
synaptic vesicles
Transference
range
Critical Period
17. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
crystallized intelligence
industrial/organizational psychologist
unconscious
Critical Period
18. Top of the spinal column
brainstem
Sociobiology
Bonding
Family therapy
19. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)
Unconditioned Response
menopause
William Sheldon
Mediation
20. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.
Dichromats
memory span
Mediation
William Dement
21. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.
science
Erik Erikson
Repression
correlation coefficient
22. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
Aristotle
Working through
Oedipus Complex
serotonin
23. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
double-blind procedure
Reliability
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Percentile score
24. Sets of strategies - rather than strict rules - that act as guidelines for discovery-oriented problem solving.
Vulnerability
opponent-process theory of emotion
Heuristics
Rational-emotive therapy
25. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.
Dream analysis
Phobic disorders
psychoanalyst
all-or-none principle
26. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
correlational research
central nervous system
retrograde amnesia
Socrates
27. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons
Functional fixedness
afferent neuron nerve
epinephrine
Descriptive Studies
28. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8
preconscious
hindbrain
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Metal retardation
29. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm
nature
Plateau phase
Positive Reinforcement
Rape
30. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)
Jean Piaget
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
representative sample
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
31. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality
forebrain
Rationalization
kinesthesis
Gender stereotype
32. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Manifest Content
Equity Theory
self-actualization
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
33. The tendency of people in a group to seek concurrence with one another when reaching a decision - rather than effectively evaluating options.
Standardization
Groupthink
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
nature-nurture controversy
34. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.
Teratogen
Social Psychology
Albert Ellis
René Descartes
35. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
Lewis Terman
Adolescence
ex post facto study
somatic nervous system
36. A fertilized egg
Zygote
Lawrence Kohlberg
psychoanalytic
Abnormal psychology
37. Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation - they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.
Dream analysis
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
John Garcia
peripheral nervous system
38. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
Reactance
imagery
Rationalization
motor projection areas
39. Pioneer in intelligence (IQ) tests - designed a test to identify slow learners in need of help-not applicable in the U.S. because it was too culture-bound (French)
all-or-none principle
rods
Alfred Binet
Antisocial personality disorder
40. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
iris
strain studies
scientific method
frontal lobes
41. 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
norepinephrine
Zajonc & Markus
Normal curve
antagonist
42. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Standardization
observer bias
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
43. The second level of the three organizational structures of the brain that receives signals from other parts of the brain or spinal cord and either relays the information to other parts of the brain or causes the body to act immediately; involved in m
Wernicke's area
Social Categorization
midbrain
Withdrawal Symptoms
44. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
nurture
Gibson & Walk
Alfred Adler
debriefing
45. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response
Prevalence
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Time-out
Moro reflex
46. Able to see objects at a distance clearly but having trouble seeing things up close; farsighted
retrograde amnesia
naturalistic observation
parallel processing
Hyperopic
47. The behavior of giving up or not responding to punishment - exhibited by people or animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they have no control
William James
Learned Helplessness
olfaction
Stress
48. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law
long-term potentiation
Broca's area
Ernst Weber
Vasocongestion
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.
mean
hindbrain
recency effect
Reactance
50. 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.
Placebo effect
Clark Hull
Sociobiology
Abnormal Behavior