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AP Psychology
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1. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality
observer bias
Wechsler intelligence tests
forebrain
Edward Bradford Titchener
2. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)
Jean Piaget
Theory of mind
William Sheldon
motive
3. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment
John Garcia
Self-actualization
Learning
Circadian Rhythms
4. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning
John B Watson
preconventional level of moral development
Classical Conditioning
Anorexia Nervosa
5. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
Darley & Latane
median
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
brain
6. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep
Means-ends analysis
dendrites
Specific phobia
Insomnia
7. The extent to which scores differ from one another
Social Cognition
corpus callosum
Psychosurgery
variability
8. Colored part of the eye that regulates size of pupil
Trichromatic theory
Collective Unconscious
Theory of mind
iris
9. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
storage
Alzheimer's Disease
Algorithm
Orgasm phase
10. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
imagery
Semantics
Social Loafing
11. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
convolutions
Reliability
Drive
ESP
12. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
Collective Unconscious
Insight therapy
Convergent thinking
Denial
13. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm
Plateau phase
Paul Ekman
motor neurons
somatic nervous system
14. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving
synaptic cleft
Elizabeth Loftus
Arousal
Self-actualization
15. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment
Plateau phase
Extrinsic motivation
Rosenthal & Jacobson
forebrain
16. 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.
Intimacy
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Semantics
Daniel Goleman
17. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
developmental psychologist
positive psychology
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Theory of mind
18. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters
James-Lange theory of emotion
Charles Spearman
human genomes
synaptic vesicles
19. 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.
psychoanalytic
Temperament
Social Psychology
Free association
20. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Withdrawal Symptoms
Fixation
sensory neurons
Reaction Formation
21. The brain and spinal cord
Karen Horney
Stress
ESP
central nervous system
22. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
Reasoning
iris
anterograde amnesia
selection studies
23. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe
Benjamin Whorf
Carol Gilligan
working memory
gustation
24. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
Social Psychology
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Erik Erikson
myelin sheath
25. 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.
relative refractory period
Conformity
Anal Stage
Tolman
26. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
inhibitory neurotransmitter
participant
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Noam Chomsky
27. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning
Self-efficacy
Reactance
psychobiology
Phineas Gage
28. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Double-blind techniques
afferent neuron nerve
Lawrence Kohlberg
Means-ends analysis
29. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
normal distribution
Bonding
Raymond Cattell
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
30. 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
Hermann Rorschach
identical twins
Displacement
31. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.
Linguistics
Psychophysics
pineal gland
Grammar
32. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.
Aristotle
Carol Gilligan
Altruism
action potential
33. The highness or lowness of a sound
sympathetic nervous system
psychoanalytic
achievement test
pitch
34. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
Ivan Pavlov
Charles Darwin
hypothalamus
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
35. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
polygenic inheritance
Premack principle
Resolution Phase
chunks
36. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
mode
synaptic cleft
Phonology
Fulfillment
37. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
Hyperopic
Circadian Rhythms
Lucid Dream
Socrates
38. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
behavior
neuroscience
inferential statistics
normal distribution
39. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
audition
conventional level of moral development
Latency Stage
Wechsler intelligence tests
40. 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
flashbulb memories
Grammar
Circadian Rhythms
41. A therapy that is based on the application of learning principles to human behavior and that focuses on changing overt behaviors rather than on understanding subjective feelings - unconscious processes - or motivations; also known as behavior modific
transfer appropriate processing
Behavior therapy
efferent neuron nerve
Socrates
42. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Validity
Altruism
Defense Mechanism
DNA
43. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles
Rooting reflex
descriptive statistics
Phillip Zimbardo
Unconscious
44. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
optic nerve
endorphins
normal distribution
binocular cues
45. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic
neural impulse
Formal operational stage
dualism
DNA
46. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream
Classical Conditioning
endocrine glands
Alzheimer's Disease
experiment
47. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)
Debriefing
bulimia nervosa
Superego
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
48. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
Superstitious Behavior
Impression Formation
Formal operational stage
Residual type of schizophrenia
49. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.
Phillip Zimbardo
experimental group
Puberty
Cognitive Psychology
50. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed
Social Need
agonist
split brain patients
Zajonc & Markus