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AP Psychology
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1. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter
Stress
Teratogen
antagonist
levels-of-processing approach
2. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
Orgasm phase
anorexia nervosa
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
counseling psychologist
3. Memory for specific information
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
declarative memory
Extinction (classical conditioning)
split brain patients
4. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.
Reactance
Sublimation
forebrain
Puberty
5. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings
thyroid gland
pancreas
Reasoning
psychologist
6. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data
Need for achievement
Factor analysis
gate control theory
Sublimation
7. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.
clinical psychologist
Conservation
Intimacy
Object permanence
8. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature
insulin
polygenic inheritance
Dementia
Classical Conditioning
9. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Brainstorming
Altruism
blind spot
10. The suppression of one bit of information by another
difference threshold
Conditioning
interference
Concordance rate
11. Pioneer in intelligence (IQ) tests - designed a test to identify slow learners in need of help-not applicable in the U.S. because it was too culture-bound (French)
correlational research
Concrete operational stage
Alfred Binet
Carol Gilligan
12. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement
school psychologist
experiment
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Token economy
13. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory
Drive
Dream analysis
Observational Learning Theory
Robert Zajonc
14. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
Group Polarization
Gender
Oedipus Complex
Morpheme
15. A need or want that causes someone to act
motive
mean
Reasoning
Rooting reflex
16. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
procedural memory
Rationalization
phenotype
nature
17. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic value for an organism but that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer
forensic psychologist
Secondary Reinforcer
insulin
Latent Learning
18. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Longitudinal Study
Conditioned Stimulus
Substance Abuser
19. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
Masters & Johnson
school psychologist
maintenance rehearsal
lens
20. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function
Stanley Schachter
Phineas Gage
Backward search
Leon Festinger
21. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
interneurons
Konrad Lorenz
cohort effect
Withdrawal Symptoms
22. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
monocular cues
Learned helplessness
normal distribution
Plateau phase
23. 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)
functional MRI (fMRI)
Positive Reinforcement
neural impulse
dependent variable
24. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response
retrograde amnesia
schema
Extinction (classical conditioning)
refractory period
25. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.
Social Need
Bipolar disorder
Phineas Gage
Rooting reflex
26. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
Carl Jung
Receptive fields
Langer & Rodin
Unconditioned Stimulus
27. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease
Psychoneuroimmunology
Jean Piaget
demand characteristics
moral development
28. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones
retina
Rooting reflex
Tolman
Attitudes
29. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.
Variable-ratio Schedule
ESP
Anal Stage
Heuristics
30. A group of psychological disorders characterized by a lack of reality testing and by deterioration of social and intellectual functioning and personality beginning before age 45 and lasting at least 6 months
Schizophrenic disorders
Bonding
Cognitive Dissonance
Kenneth Clark
31. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable
B.F. Skinner
frequency polygon
Ageism
operational definition
32. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants
Problem Solving
Social Influence
Gibson & Walk
rehearsal
33. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
Moro reflex
Time-out
debriefing
action potential
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
Elizabeth Loftus
ions
Prejudice
Conservation
35. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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36. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
Cognitive theories
Attachment
sensory adaptation
Assimilation
37. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes
Psychophysics
endocrine system
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Plateau phase
38. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.
cohort effect
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
genotype
Insight therapy
39. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.
Divergent thinking
Trichromats
Denial
eclectic
40. Does research on how people function best with machines
engineering psychologist
motor projection areas
Concept
Hans Eysenck
41. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Projection
Debriefing
implicit memory
Superego
42. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
structuralism
instinct
Alzheimer's Disease
peripheral nervous system
43. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
axon
introspection
Aristotle
ethics
44. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste
Intimacy
Sociobiology
Psychoactive Drug
glial cells
45. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
Sucking reflex
flashbulb memories
Secondary Sex Characteristics
case study
46. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress
Holmes & Rahe
Norms
Gazzaniga or Sperry
pitch
47. Process in which the sense organs' receptor cells are stimulated and relay initial information to higher brain centers for further processing.
Charles Spearman
Saccades
Sensation
Bulimia Nervosa
48. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi
Optic chiasm
Stimulus Generalization
Solomon Asch
Stressor
49. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.
neurotransmitters
range
gene
Creativity
50. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself
Zajonc & Markus
David Rosenhan
Judith Langlois
Intrinsic motivation