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AP Psychology
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1. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
timbre
Group Polarization
motive
mode
2. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
serotonin
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Double-blind techniques
3. 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
Divergent thinking
recency effect
Opponent-process theory
Survey
4. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
sample
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Social Categorization
inhibitory neurotransmitter
5. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.
Vulnerability
Reliability
David Weschler
Signal Detection Theory
6. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
Aversive counterconditioning
Assimilation
Debriefing
Id
7. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Working through
Socrates
Intelligence
Abraham Maslow
8. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Dream analysis
Photoreceptors
postconventional level of moral development
9. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.
Need for achievement
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Consciousness
Circadian Rhythms
10. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)
informed consent
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Survey
refractory period
11. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
Noam Chomsky
Aggression
Cognitive Dissonance
Group
12. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
Schizophrenic disorders
forebrain
temporal lobes
Hermann Rorschach
13. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
Harry Stack Sullivan
Albert Bandura
Psychoactive Drug
unconscious
14. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
thalamus
memory span
parallel processing
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
15. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Social Loafing
structuralism
Fixation
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
16. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
explicit memory
chunks
opponent-process theory of emotion
hippocampus
17. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never
behavioral genetics
Rosenhan
Erik Erikson
zone of proximal development
18. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
phenotype
Percentile score
Biofeedback
19. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state
Classical Conditioning
Resolution Phase
Drug
Anorexia Nervosa
20. In an experiment - the group of participants to whom a treatment is given
difference threshold
experimental group
Alfred Binet
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
21. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
retrograde amnesia
Herman von Helmholtz
Client-centered therapy
22. 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.
Darley & Latane
cohort effect
Holmes & Rahe
Stereotypes
23. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall
Anna O.
Rationalization
Bystander Effect
Premack principle
24. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
Masters & Johnson
sociocultural psychology
sympathetic nervous system
Semantics
25. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.
experimental group
Ego
Blood-Brain Barrier
Rational-emotive therapy
26. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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27. A fertilized egg
survey research
Zygote
elaborative rehearsal
case study
28. Does research on how people function best with machines
Signal Detection Theory
Hyperopic
engineering psychologist
Dissociative disorders
29. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself
Aristotle
Unconditioned Stimulus
Intrinsic motivation
memory span
30. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
difference threshold
Robert Yerkes
Unconditioned Stimulus
ESP
31. 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.
Conformity
Morpheme
Prototype
Heritability
32. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
Descriptive Studies
Schizophrenic disorders
genetics
Phoneme
33. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions
somatic nervous system
Secondary Reinforcer
placebo effect
Aversive counterconditioning
34. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill
Signal Detection Theory
significant difference
zone of proximal development
Concrete operational stage
35. Ends of axons that secrete neurotransmitters
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Creativity
monocular cues
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
36. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
conventional level of moral development
strain studies
Reasoning
John Garcia
37. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)
Aversive counterconditioning
bulimia nervosa
difference threshold
Working through
38. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.
insulin
sensory neurons
Interpretation
Family therapy
39. Neurotransmitter that inhibits firing of neurons; linked with Huntington's disease
glial cells
Phoneme
Alfred Binet
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
40. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
empiricism
hypothalamus
Size constancy
Panic Attack
41. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
functional MRI (fMRI)
schema
Erik Erikson
Myopic
42. A period after firing when a neuron is returning to its normal polarize state and will only fire again if the incoming message open parentheses impulse) is stronger than usual; returning to arresting state
Darley & Latane
Perception
Teratogen
relative refractory period
43. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
Personality
Drug
aptitude test
functionalism
44. 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
Elizabeth Loftus
Ex Post Facto Design
Social Facilitation
Free association
45. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically
difference threshold
neurogenesis
Dependence
neural plasticity
46. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)
Wechsler intelligence tests
functionalism
dopamine
Hermann Rorschach
47. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
Alfred Adler
authoritative parenting
human genomes
Self-actualization
48. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
Punishment
Alzheimer's Disease
Learned helplessness
psychiatrist
49. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
working memory
Robert Yerkes
Gender Schema Theory
Cognitive Psychology
50. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease
Psychoneuroimmunology
Body Language
Embryo
Temperament