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AP Psychology
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1. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
Mainstreaming
Nonverbal Communication
Androgynous
psychoanalyst
2. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
Morality
habituation
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Conformity
3. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
Hyperopic
Personality disorders
Absolute threshold
Drug
4. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature
top-down processing
Cross-sectional study
Bystander Effect
Dementia
5. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
William James
Personality disorders
postconventional level of moral development
introspection
6. Following a strong emotion - an opposing emotion counters the first emotion - lessening the experience of that emotion; on repeated occasions - the opposing emotion becomes stronger
opponent-process theory of emotion
hindbrain
Drive
Validity
7. 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.
school psychologist
Projective Tests
Type A behavior
Denial
8. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
Bystander Effect
Social Need
Type B behavior
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
9. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically
Gender
sympathetic nervous system
Aaron Beck
Preoperational stage
10. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.
Moro reflex
Prototype
instinct
Abnormal psychology
11. A state of mental discomfort arising from a discrepancy between two or more of a person's beliefs or between a person's beliefs and overt behavior.
Cognitive Dissonance
endocrine glands
Psycholinguistics
Howard Gardner
12. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place
Agoraphobia
working memory
Consciousness
Placenta
13. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships
Social Need
lens
Psycholinguistics
nature-nurture controversy
14. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.
genetics
Id
placebo effect
Actor-observer Effect
15. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Psychophysics
Moro reflex
Psychoanalysis
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
16. The process by which individuals lose their self-awareness and distinctive personality in the context of a group - which may lead them to engage in antinormative behavior.
Deindividuation
Wechsler intelligence tests
Punishment
Skinner Box
17. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
Superstitious Behavior
observer bias
Interpersonal Attraction
postconventional level of moral development
18. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
Prevalence
blind spot
Law of Effect
Prejudice
19. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
health psychologist
Excitement phase
Prototype
William Dement
20. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Equity Theory
science
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
21. 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
Wilhelm Wundt
habituation
Actor-observer Effect
22. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.
Higher-order Conditioning
Self-serving Bias
brainstem
variable
23. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Unconscious
Phonology
Placebo effect
ex post facto study
24. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
state-dependent learning
Stimulus Generalization
Prevalence
dendrites
25. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body
Interpersonal Attraction
counseling psychologist
episodic memory
kinesthesis
26. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
polarization
Ideal Self
Fetus
endorphins
27. An individual's genetic make-up
Decentration
genotype
clinical psychologist
psychoanalytic
28. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence
Edward Thorndike
Visual cortex
range
Object permanence
29. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision
Puberty
variability
operational definition
cones
30. Sense of smell
Abraham Maslow
Imaginary Audience
olfaction
Overjustification effect
31. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
John Locke
long-term memory
David Weschler
response bias
32. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
Shaping
Raymond Cattell
Solomon Asch
Ex Post Facto Design
33. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
Survey
Social Influence
Psycholinguistics
Health psychology
34. Cognition and memory; studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony
Schizophrenic disorders
Elizabeth Loftus
motivated forgetting
amnesia
35. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords
Raymond Cattell
Psychotherapy
John Garcia
sensory neurons
36. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8
Law of Effect
Metal retardation
Conservation
Lawrence Kohlberg
37. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
parallel processing
Body Language
Anal Stage
Need
38. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself
Electromagnetic Radiation
Secondary Reinforcer
Intrinsic motivation
Personality disorders
39. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids
parathormone
acetylcholine (ACh)
Hermann Rorschach
empiricism
40. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected
Psychophysics
independent variable
recency effect
Superego
41. A number that expresses the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables - ranging from -1 to +1
temporal lobes
correlation coefficient
mutation
Algorithm
42. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
schema
Phoneme
Backward search
aptitude test
43. In emerging Theo psychology that focuses on positive experiences; includes subjective well-being - self-determination - the relationship between positive emotions and physical health - and the factors that allow individuals - communities - and societ
response bias
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
positive psychology
Latent Content
44. Behaviorism/learning; pioneer in systematic desensitization - maintained that fear could be unlearned
Need for achievement
Reaction Formation
sensory memory
Mary Cover-Jones
45. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
Types
endorphins
schema
Stress
46. A process through which people receive information about the status of a physical system and use this feedback information to learn to control the activity of that system
token economy
Photoreceptors
Projective Tests
Biofeedback
47. Inability to understand or use language
aphasia
Appraisal
Demand characteristics
Dark adaptation
48. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
Wilhelm Wundt
median
afferent neuron nerve
Counterconditioning
49. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
Vasocongestion
science
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
psychoanalytic
50. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior
ethnocentrism
William Dement
instinct
Emotion