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AP Psychology
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1. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
Self-serving Bias
Bonding
Reinforcer
Social Facilitation
2. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
Schizophrenic disorders
genetics
Standard score
Embryo
3. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.
Learned Helplessness
Linguistics
Higher-order Conditioning
proactive interference
4. Emotional intelligence
pupil
Daniel Goleman
William James
Sublimation
5. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort
Harry Harlow
Psychosurgery
Subliminal perception
brain
6. 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
Developmental Psychology
endocrine system
Benjamin Whorf
observer bias
7. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
Convergent thinking
moral development
parallel processing
Cognitive Dissonance
8. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood
Psychophysics
Puberty
Variable-interval Schedule
myelin sheath
9. A test designed to predict a person's future performance
participant
aptitude test
Harry Harlow
Superego
10. 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
neuron
graded potential
Interpretation
thyroxine
11. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
declarative memory
frequency distribution
Orgasm phase
memory span
12. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill
Gestalt psychology
Gender
Stressor
placebo
13. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
nature-nurture controversy
mean
Decentration
experimenter bias
14. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary
Signal Detection Theory
school psychologist
Prevalence
Means-ends analysis
15. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary
Robert Rosenthal
Albert Ellis
Gordon Allport
brain
16. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
Latent Content
instinct
Darley & Latane
Dependence
17. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory
motor projection areas
levels-of-processing approach
Excitement phase
functionalism
18. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.
William Sheldon
Discrimination
polygenic inheritance
Phonology
19. Morality based on consequences to self
pineal gland
preconventional level of moral development
Norms
Superego
20. Memory for specific information
declarative memory
Drug
aptitude test
dominant genes
21. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Double-blind techniques
Standardization
22. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
Albert Ellis
statistics
Regression
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
23. Primary area for processing visual information
epinephrine
Expectancy Theories
occipital lobes
experiment
24. 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
Electromagnetic Radiation
Ernst Weber
Generalized anxiety disorder
state-dependent learning
25. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Learning
Gender stereotype
timbre
26. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence
Edward Thorndike
Shaping
Stimulant
Arousal
27. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
frequency polygon
Higher-order Conditioning
Babinski reflex
Interpersonal Attraction
28. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine
Ernst Weber
brain
thyroid gland
Delusions
29. The suppression of one bit of information by another
Self-fulfilling prophecy
David Rosenhan
B.F. Skinner
interference
30. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'
thalamus
John Garcia
Schizophrenic disorders
selection studies
31. The general state of being aware of and responsive to events in the environment - as well as one's own mental processes
Interpersonal Attraction
rehearsal
semantic memory
Consciousness
32. An observable action
Cognitive theories
Phineas Gage
midbrain
behavior
33. 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
Trait
norepinephrine
Lev Vygotsky
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
34. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
Type B behavior
Standardization
eclectic
Delusions
35. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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36. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
Aristotle
refractory period
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
Object permanence
37. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
hippocampus
Fulfillment
Placenta
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
38. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
sensory memory
Zajonc & Markus
Approach-avoidance conflict
crystallized intelligence
39. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
sensory adaptation
Type B behavior
Temperament
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
40. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life
family studies
acetylcholine (ACh)
industrial/organizational psychologist
Creativity
41. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.
Systematic desensitization
Stanley Schachter
insulin
Clark Hull
42. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
Alfred Adler
Survey
mode
mutation
43. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.
Latent Learning
receptor site
Resilience
Double bind
44. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire
excitatory neurotransmitter
Francis Galton
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Conditioning
45. 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
fluid intelligence
Orgasm phase
Social Loafing
psychometrician
46. 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.
Transference
Self-actualization
Linguistics
state-dependent learning
47. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Psychophysics
Linguistics
brainstem
Subgoal analysis
48. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.
Types
anorexia nervosa
Concept
Self-efficacy
49. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
Optic chiasm
Herman von Helmholtz
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
sensory neurons
50. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes
control group
pons
DNA
Impression Formation