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AP Psychology
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1. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
working memory
Functional fixedness
sound localization
Oedipus Complex
2. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
hormone
survey research
Impression Formation
3. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
authoritative parenting
Experimental design
Cognitive Psychology
4. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
Prevalence
Developmental Psychology
Drug
Decision making
5. 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
Perception
graded potential
Phallic Stage
Displacement
6. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
Robert Sternberg
Saccades
control group
Kenneth Clark
7. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
Prosocial Behavior
Paul Ekman
Morpheme
psychoanalyst
8. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
Opponent-process theory
Socrates
transfer appropriate processing
Descriptive Studies
9. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
kinesthesis
Double-blind techniques
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
10. 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
normal distribution
synapse
Placenta
norepinephrine
11. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants
Emotion
Aversive counterconditioning
Self-fulfilling prophecy
cognitive psychology
12. A person's experiences in the environment
nurture
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
top-down processing
Behavior therapy
13. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
sociocultural psychology
dependent variable
Trait
Heuristics
14. Piaget's thrid stage of cognitive development (lasting from approximately age 6 or 7 to age 11 or 12) - during which the child develops the ability to understand constant factors in the environment - rules - and higher-order symbolic systems
Concrete operational stage
variable
vestibular sense
engineering psychologist
15. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
Placebo effect
Child abuse
Obedience
correlational research
16. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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17. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
Konrad Lorenz
Overjustification effect
cerebellum
Functional fixedness
18. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected
Discrimination
neural impulse
cerebellum
independent variable
19. Maintenance of a constant state of inner stability or balance
state-dependent learning
sociocultural psychology
Homeostasis
Specific phobia
20. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed
Sublimation
Robert Yerkes
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Stress
21. Colored part of the eye that regulates size of pupil
Psychodynamically
iris
Self-efficacy
Regression
22. An unconscious way of reducing anxiety by distorting perceptions of reality.
Defense Mechanism
John Locke
case study
Assimilation
23. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress
Holmes & Rahe
Longitudinal Study
Normal curve
flashbulb memories
24. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
behavioral genetics
Systematic desensitization
Self
mean
25. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary
Sociobiology
Gordon Allport
Fundamental Attribution Error
imagery
26. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine
Case study
Daniel Goleman
thyroid gland
forensic psychologist
27. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.
explicit memory
Babinski reflex
Hue
Rosenthal & Jacobson
28. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire
recessive gene
excitatory neurotransmitter
kinesthesis
case study
29. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
introspection
Subliminal perception
pituitary gland
30. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards
token economy
Coping
Phineas Gage
Stimulus Discrimination
31. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Edward Thorndike
Approach-avoidance conflict
Extinction (operant conditioning)
32. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
parathormone
Morpheme
Optic chiasm
imagery
33. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.
chromosome
primacy effect
Concept
Zygote
34. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings
John Garcia
endocrine system
Robert Zajonc
state-dependent learning
35. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
Linguistics
Learning
Psychosurgery
amnesia
36. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
Judith Langlois
control group
authoritative parenting
Personality disorders
37. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.
Law of Effect
Deviation IQ
Visual cortex
Walter B. Cannon
38. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
neurotransmitters
sound localization
authoritative parenting
habituation
39. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'
pituitary gland
Approach-approach conflict
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
synapse
40. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -
implicit memory
Gender
Self-actualization
Wilhelm Wundt
41. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ on an important dimension
association areas
optic nerve
genetic mapping
Cross-sectional study
42. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.
Latency Stage
Systematic desensitization
gene
neurotransmitters
43. 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
Placenta
Concept
ESP
Robert Zajonc
44. According to Piaget - the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences
Accommodation
educational psychologist
Reasoning
Cognitive theories
45. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
Time-out
Spontaneous Recovery
Benjamin Whorf
Dark adaptation
46. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.
Social phobia
Bonding
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Sensorimotor stage
47. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
nurture
Language
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
observer bias
48. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
scientific method
Carl Jung
Tolerance
photoreceptors
49. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
Psycholinguistics
normal distribution
Latent Learning
Broca's area
50. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
Dissociative identity disorder
Lewis Terman
parallel processing
Wolpe