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AP Psychology
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1. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation
Standard score
Panic Attack
Halo effect
Imaginary Audience
2. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
Appraisal
consolidation
inferential statistics
Arousal
3. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
Sucking reflex
Developmental Psychology
aversive conditioning
humanistic psychology
4. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
Representative sample
Variable-ratio Schedule
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Wechsler intelligence tests
5. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
Deviation IQ
representative sample
synapse
Primary Punisher
6. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
Collective Unconscious
Mediation
ethics
population
7. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Karen Horney
Validity
Time-out
Double-blind techniques
8. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
nurture
flashbulb memories
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
menarche
9. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching
menarche
statistics
Imaginary Audience
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
10. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons
temporal lobes
efferent neuron nerve
Impression Formation
Androgynous
11. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
Fundamental Attribution Error
Creativity
selection studies
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
12. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.
Charles Darwin
Trichromatic theory
Theory of mind
retrieval
13. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
Robert Yerkes
Harry Harlow
Residual type of schizophrenia
Arousal
14. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Phallic Stage
mutation
sports psychologist
15. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
sensory adaptation
Fetus
Hobson & McCarley
Wechsler intelligence tests
16. Process by which a neutral stimulus takes on conditioned properties through pairing with a conditioned stimulus
Backward search
Higher-order Conditioning
Denial
Raymond Cattell
17. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
Need
informed consent
Puberty
Secondary Reinforcer
18. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
behavioral genetics
Stressor
Daniel Goleman
Punishment
19. Graphical record of brain-wave activity obtained through electrodes placed on the scalp and forehead
zone of proximal development
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
token economy
20. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event
Egocentrism
interference
placebo
retrograde amnesia
21. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
Self-perception Theory
Robert Yerkes
top-down processing
Fixed-ratio Schedule
22. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females
Gender stereotype
Electromagnetic Radiation
Temperament
myelin sheath
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
semantic memory
sensory neurons
aversive conditioning
Anna O.
24. Period of development from conception until birth
percentile score
timbre
frequency
prenatal development
25. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood
Adolescence
clinical psychologist
introspection
conventional level of moral development
26. The tendency for one characteristic of an individual to influence a tester's evaluation of other characteristics
Halo effect
Charles Spearman
Ex Post Facto Design
Vasocongestion
27. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
natural selection
Rational-emotive therapy
Monochromats
Primary Reinforcer
28. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
Mediation
debriefing
Personal Fable
Theory of mind
29. The spread between the highest and the lowest scores in a distribution
range
Spontaneous Recovery
Imaginary Audience
Robert Rosenthal
30. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
axon terminal
Social phobia
state-dependent learning
Assessment
31. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.
Actor-observer Effect
Psychotherapy
Opponent-process theory
temporal lobes
32. The situation that occurs when the drug becomes part of the body's functioning and produces withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued
Light
frequency
Robert Yerkes
Dependence
33. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes
Psychoneuroimmunology
somatic nervous system
heritability
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
34. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment
Mary Ainsworth
Variable-ratio Schedule
Zygote
Jean Piaget
35. Memory for specific information
declarative memory
self-fulfilling prophecy
aptitude test
scientific method
36. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
explicit memory
Dependence
occipital lobes
transfer appropriate processing
37. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response
Social Interest
Skinner Box
Substance Abuser
postconventional level of moral development
38. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress
Mediation
Holmes & Rahe
Reinforcer
Adolescence
39. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.
Phineas Gage
Reflex
Interpersonal Attraction
Phineas Gage
40. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Martin Seligman
response bias
Validity
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
41. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
forebrain
developmental psychologist
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
authoritative parenting
42. The behavior of giving up or not responding to punishment - exhibited by people or animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they have no control
psychology
Phineas Gage
positive psychology
Learned Helplessness
43. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste
Myopic
glial cells
Prejudice
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
44. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time
retina
Type A behavior
just noticeable difference (JND)
relative refractory period
45. Number of wavelengths that pass a point in a given amount of time; determines hue of light and the pitch of a sound
frequency
Hue
Psychosurgery
Interpretation
46. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
Withdrawal Symptoms
Myopic
Regression
ethnocentrism
47. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics
consolidation
Social Loafing
Need for achievement
Case study
48. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
Repression
motor neurons
hypnosis
Elaboration Likelihood Model
49. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort
survey research
Harry Harlow
Double bind
bulimia nervosa
50. Establish the relationship between two variables
correlational research
self-fulfilling prophecy
Reliability
David McClelland