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AP Psychology
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1. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)
Paul Ekman
neural impulse
relative refractory period
Dissociative identity disorder
2. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire
Unconscious
Accommodation
Positive Reinforcement
excitatory neurotransmitter
3. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature
Learned helplessness
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Variable-ratio Schedule
Dementia
4. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
Wilhelm Wundt
placebo effect
hindbrain
Hermann Ebbinghaus
5. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed
split brain patients
Self-fulfilling prophecy
nerve
Kurt Lewin
6. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
pons
behavioral genetics
Divergent thinking
Hans Eysenck
7. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
Gender Schema Theory
Object permanence
Emotion
confounding variable
8. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.
Sucking reflex
Social Influence
Collective Unconscious
amygdala
9. Electrically charged particles found both inside and outside a neuron; negative ions are found inside the cell membrane in a polarized neuron
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
ions
forebrain
Accommodation
10. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
Social Cognition
Substance Abuser
resting potential
Wilhelm Wundt
11. Growth in the ability to tell right from wrong - control impulses - and act ethically
temporal lobes
moral development
Withdrawal Symptoms
engineering psychologist
12. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior
Trait
selective attention
Spontaneous Recovery
Theory of mind
13. In Roger's theory of personality - the perception an individual has of himself or herself and of his or her relationships to other people and to various aspects of life.
Stressor
visual acuity
Self
Standardization
14. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands
amygdala
Darley & Latane
Arousal
Experimental design
15. 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
amygdala
Hobson & McCarley
action potential
shaping
16. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.
Transduction
Residual type of schizophrenia
Insomnia
Personality
17. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
Howard Gardner
transfer appropriate processing
schema
brainstem
18. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
glial cells
crystallized intelligence
Representative sample
19. A branch of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body functions; it calms the body after sympathetic stimulation
synaptic vesicles
human genomes
pituitary gland
parasympathetic nervous system
20. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories
hippocampus
chunks
Projection
sympathetic nervous system
21. Psychoanalytic technique in which a person is asked to report to the therapist his or her thoughts and feelings as they occur - regardless of how trivial - illogical - or objectionable their content may appear.
Reliability
Kurt Lewin
Free association
identical twins
22. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)
response bias
Type A behavior
Rationalization
parathyroid
23. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
Masters & Johnson
David Weschler
Reaction Formation
Expectancy Theories
24. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit
participant
top-down processing
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Dissociative identity disorder
25. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients
Carol Gilligan
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Premack principle
Clark Hull
26. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
Approach-approach conflict
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
authoritative parenting
Residual type of schizophrenia
27. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
motivated forgetting
debriefing
Alfred Adler
levels-of-processing approach
28. Organizing sensory information so it can be processed by the nervous system
encoding
dependent variable
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Mediation
29. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
amnesia
Stimulant
Homeostasis
mutation
30. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
confounding variable
long-term potentiation
Anna O.
sociocultural psychology
31. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
autonomic nervous system
Hermann Ebbinghaus
olfaction
Group therapy
32. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
genetics
psychology
Nonverbal Communication
achievement test
33. A test designed to predict a person's future performance
Oedipus Complex
somatic nervous system
Emotion
aptitude test
34. Experience of the difference threshold
Visual cortex
Schizophrenic disorders
Light
just noticeable difference (JND)
35. Neutral stimulus that - through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus - begins to elicit a conditioned response
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Walter B. Cannon
Social Facilitation
Conditioned Stimulus
36. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
Zajonc & Markus
frequency distribution
sensory memory
polarization
37. Primary area for processing visual information
Drug
Psychoneuroimmunology
occipital lobes
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
38. Reproductive glands-male - testes; female - ovaries
Psychoneuroimmunology
gonads
Representative sample
self-actualization
39. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.
human genomes
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Conformity
Charles Spearman
40. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory
Social Psychology
relative refractory period
Dissociative disorders
normal distribution
41. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation
Convergent thinking
Grammar
Blood-Brain Barrier
Standard score
42. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Fixation
pituitary gland
Conformity
Hans Eysenck
43. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.
Child abuse
Actor-observer Effect
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
preconventional level of moral development
44. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
Divergent thinking
refractory period
Preoperational stage
Schema
45. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening
Variable-interval Schedule
Altruism
Lucid Dream
Regression
46. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.
Projective Tests
Reliability
Leon Festinger
Social Facilitation
47. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
Phallic Stage
Approach-avoidance conflict
Alfred Adler
Saccades
48. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress
nonconscious
Holmes & Rahe
parasympathetic nervous system
Transference
49. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
Delusions
Group
Resilience
dopamine
50. An observable action
Abraham Maslow
behavior
Norms
authoritative parenting