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AP Psychology
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1. Memory; studied memorization of meaningless words
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Aaron Beck
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Rationalization
2. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress
Placenta
Holmes & Rahe
Operant Conditioning
graded potential
3. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
Psychoactive Drug
Paul Ekman
developmental psychologist
neuron
4. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards
Antisocial personality disorder
Bonding
token economy
Descriptive Studies
5. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)
neurotransmitters
bulimia nervosa
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
levels-of-processing approach
6. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.
Syntax
Panic Attack
parathyroid
Demand characteristics
7. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism
emotional intelligence
flashbulb memories
Approach-approach conflict
Collective Unconscious
8. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
Approach-avoidance conflict
human genomes
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Conditioned Response
9. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
short-term storage
Collective Unconscious
Higher-order Conditioning
Delusions
10. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
behavioral genetics
demand characteristics
DNA
Sex
11. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
John Locke
Regression
achievement test
maintenance rehearsal
12. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
structuralism
chromosome
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
13. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
Classical Conditioning
procedural memory
retroactive interference
Psychophysics
14. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems
Psychotic
Bulimia Nervosa
genotype
counseling psychologist
15. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected
selective attention
independent variable
Tolman
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
16. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'
Concordance rate
Erik Erikson
Phillip Zimbardo
Standard score
17. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
hypothalamus
peripheral nervous system
neuropsychologist
counseling psychologist
18. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
Libido
shaping
frequency polygon
case study
19. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions
Mediation
Specific phobia
habituation
somatic nervous system
20. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.
pupil
William Dement
Personal Fable
Learned helplessness
21. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
natural selection
Premack principle
myelin sheath
Divergent thinking
22. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
Group
Electromagnetic Radiation
Gender Schema Theory
Plateau phase
23. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
afferent neuron nerve
Optic chiasm
nurture
control group
24. Sets of strategies - rather than strict rules - that act as guidelines for discovery-oriented problem solving.
all-or-none principle
Sublimation
Heuristics
Blood-Brain Barrier
25. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands
Factor analysis
axon
Oral Stage
parietal lobes
26. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites
axon terminal
synapse
Moro reflex
resting potential
27. The principle that those characteristics and behaviors that help organisms adapt - be fit - and survive will be passed on to successive generations - because flexible - fit individuals have a greater chance of reproduction
flashbulb memories
Walter B. Cannon
Humanistic theory
natural selection
28. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords
sensory neurons
Cross-sectional study
Id
levels-of-processing approach
29. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
association areas
Counterconditioning
Gender
Spontaneous Recovery
30. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
Assessment
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
encoding
Tolerance
31. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Preoperational stage
Client-centered therapy
graded potential
Robert Rosenthal
32. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
Denial
social psychologist
Brightness
dependent variable
33. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
monism
Anna Freud
polygenic inheritance
Coping
34. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.
lens
Phillip Zimbardo
Dream analysis
Projective Tests
35. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
fraternal twins
Attitudes
Psychoneuroimmunology
Socrates
36. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
Unconditioned Response
Alfred Adler
Experimental design
serotonin
37. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
natural selection
(cerebral) cortex
Specific phobia
maintenance rehearsal
38. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience
Schizophrenic disorders
fraternal twins
Robert Yerkes
psychobiology
39. Released by adrenal glands; triggered by norepinephrine to prolong the response to stress (used in the sympathetic nervous system)
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
conventional level of moral development
Backward search
Size constancy
40. 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
Representative sample
Abnormal Behavior
Discrimination
Dissociative identity disorder
41. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
Regression
selective attention
operational definition
Decision making
42. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning
Monochromats
survey research
Descriptive Studies
monism
43. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters
axon terminal
Working through
Resistance
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
44. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
Double-blind techniques
Aristotle
Electromagnetic Radiation
variable
45. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
Standard score
Socrates
observer bias
olfaction
46. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it
Reinforcer
Counterconditioning
Latent Learning
Robert Rosenthal
47. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions
Harry Harlow
hormone
brain
set point
48. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
polygenic inheritance
authoritarian parenting
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Primary Punisher
49. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
Orgasm phase
Projective Tests
Stimulant
ex post facto study
50. 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.
mode
Burnout
retrieval
Intimacy