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AP Psychology
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1. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
peripheral nervous system
Body Language
experimenter bias
Optic chiasm
2. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
social psychologist
Decentration
elaborative rehearsal
Gestalt psychology
3. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
Operant Conditioning
proactive interference
motive
Mainstreaming
4. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
Rape
Hobson & McCarley
postconventional level of moral development
Phineas Gage
5. Emotional intelligence
Psychotherapy
Daniel Goleman
Archetypes
midbrain
6. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
ex post facto study
Norms
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
decay
7. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body
encoding
set point
eclectic
Agoraphobia
8. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.
nature
Wilhelm Wundt
Trait
crystallized intelligence
9. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters
Brightness
axon terminal
Standardization
Consciousness
10. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits
gene
psychobiology
Robert Sternberg
encoding
11. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Motive
Standard score
Orgasm phase
Fulfillment
12. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
Unconditioned Response
endorphins
Debriefing
Group therapy
13. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)
parathyroid
declarative memory
all-or-none principle
Conservation
14. 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.
Stereotypes
Substance Abuser
Vulnerability
Elaboration Likelihood Model
15. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
Charles Spearman
visual acuity
Cross-sectional Studies
16. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
blind spot
placebo
Lewis Terman
population
17. 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
bulimia nervosa
Fixed-interval Schedule
parathyroid
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
18. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
Self-actualization
Secondary Punisher
Erik Erikson
maintenance rehearsal
19. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
Primary Reinforcer
adrenal glands
acetylcholine (ACh)
Gazzaniga or Sperry
20. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
frequency polygon
Observational Learning Theory
Lawrence Kohlberg
Group
21. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
Vulnerability
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
response bias
Stimulus Discrimination
22. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
Operant Conditioning
Insight therapy
Psychoneuroimmunology
Perception
23. 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
Phineas Gage
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
correlation coefficient
strain studies
24. Visual theory - proposed by Herring - that color is coded by stimulation of three types of paired receptors; each pair of receptors is assumed to operate in an antagonist way so that stimulation by a given wavelength produces excitation (increased fi
Cross-sectional Studies
Opponent-process theory
implicit memory
motivated forgetting
25. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
Morpheme
Zajonc & Markus
Absolute threshold
pancreas
26. 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
authoritative parenting
normal distribution
evolutionary psychology
psychoanalytic
27. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data
Survey
Light
Gibson & Walk
psychometrician
28. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Bulimia Nervosa
Hans Eysenck
all-or-none principle
Reliability
29. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
normal distribution
authoritarian parenting
motor projection areas
Sensation
30. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching
Phobic disorders
Psychoneuroimmunology
Imaginary Audience
behavior
31. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
Approach-avoidance conflict
Ernst Weber
Self-efficacy
Intimacy
32. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory
habituation
Observational Learning Theory
norepinephrine
difference threshold
33. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
Masters & Johnson
motor neurons
refractory period
Semantics
34. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups
psychoanalyst
Ex Post Facto Design
Backward search
Concordance rate
35. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Latent Learning
operational definition
William James
Validity
36. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
Motivation
Survey
Ageism
Abnormal Behavior
37. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
all-or-none principle
Health psychology
Leon Festinger
Object permanence
38. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume
Conservation
Mediation
pancreas
episodic memory
39. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable
encoding
operational definition
corpus callosum
amygdala
40. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.
Photoreceptors
David Rosenhan
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
retroactive interference
41. Depth cues that are based on one eye
Developmental Psychology
monocular cues
Myopic
Social Influence
42. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues
experiment
Spontaneous Recovery
forensic psychologist
Stressor
43. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age
blind spot
dualism
Wernicke's area
fluid intelligence
44. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
Metal retardation
peripheral nervous system
elaborative rehearsal
long-term memory
45. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Prejudice
Morpheme
top-down processing
46. An explanation of behavior that emphasizes the entirety of life rather than individual components of behavior and focuses on human dignity - individual choice - and self-worth
Social phobia
Sublimation
Genital Stage
Humanistic theory
47. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'
Attributions
Anna O.
Groupthink
Erik Erikson
48. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
Schema
storage
Counterconditioning
Double-blind techniques
49. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
hindbrain
family studies
midbrain
Martin Seligman
50. Process by which a neutral stimulus takes on conditioned properties through pairing with a conditioned stimulus
Tolman
Higher-order Conditioning
replication
Hans Eysenck