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AP Psychology
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1. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.
primacy effect
Means-ends analysis
experimenter bias
pancreas
2. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned
Primary Reinforcer
instinct
dominant genes
representative sample
3. 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.
Puberty
Dream analysis
Concept
parathormone
4. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior
Motivation
Problem Solving
Self-efficacy
double-blind procedure
5. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
Ivan Pavlov
Norms
case study
Consciousness
6. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites
parathormone
Psycholinguistics
Model
synapse
7. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals
experimenter bias
motor neurons
variable
nature
8. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence
Edward Thorndike
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
adrenal glands
double-blind procedure
9. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
Counterconditioning
Unconditioned Response
instinct
nervous system
10. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume
Case study
Conservation
frequency distribution
Babinski reflex
11. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes
working memory
Altruism
Biofeedback
Latent Content
12. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population
bottom-up processing
Anxiety
Heritability
agonist
13. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
retina
Archetypes
Prosocial Behavior
selective attention
14. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response
anterograde amnesia
Archetypes
axon
Extinction (classical conditioning)
15. 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
Dissociative identity disorder
Placebo effect
Drive
corpus callosum
16. Released by adrenal glands; triggered by norepinephrine to prolong the response to stress (used in the sympathetic nervous system)
Dependence
frequency distribution
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Discrimination
17. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning
behaviorism
set point
survey research
agonist
18. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
Drug
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Edward Thorndike
Temperament
19. Study of the brain and nervous system; overlaps with psychobiology
empiricism
significant difference
neuroscience
neurogenesis
20. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
pitch
Oedipus Complex
Self-efficacy
Schizophrenic disorders
21. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Representative sample
Rooting reflex
Psychotic
parasympathetic nervous system
22. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
behavioral genetics
amnesia
dominant genes
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
23. 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.
Aversive counterconditioning
Intimacy
Resistance
Monochromats
24. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Ivan Pavlov
Percentile score
Opponent-process theory
Operant Conditioning
25. 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
Need for achievement
correlational research
Phineas Gage
functional MRI (fMRI)
26. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
Lewis Terman
Intimacy
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Gender
27. A division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions; made up of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
experiment
Type A behavior
autonomic nervous system
Need for achievement
28. Deals with the extent to which heredity and the environment each influence behavior
Biofeedback
Schizophrenic disorders
Karl Wernicke
nature-nurture controversy
29. The cessation of the ability to reproduce
Longitudinal Study
menopause
Standard score
Child abuse
30. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
strain studies
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
frequency distribution
informed consent
31. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
William Sheldon
Social Loafing
anorexia nervosa
hypnosis
32. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s
Wechsler intelligence tests
corpus callosum
Family therapy
Cognitive Dissonance
33. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after predetermined but varying amounts of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once after each interval
sociocultural psychology
postconventional level of moral development
Variable-interval Schedule
Noam Chomsky
34. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions
thalamus
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Stanley Milgram
agonist
35. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed
variable
action potential
split brain patients
Social Influence
36. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
Self-perception Theory
Representative sample
Discrimination
Vulnerability
37. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
Color Blindness
parallel processing
Theory of mind
split brain patients
38. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed
Prototype
Martin Seligman
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
thyroxine
39. Reflex that causes a newborn to turn the head toward a light touch on lips or cheek
Rooting reflex
Social Influence
independent variable
Prototype
40. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics
Robert Rosenthal
Nonverbal Communication
representative sample
dominant genes
41. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
visual acuity
measure of central tendency
Placebo effect
Carl Rogers
42. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
pineal gland
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Free association
Jean Piaget
43. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
pancreas
Hermann Ebbinghaus
mode
Personality
44. Intelligence; found that specific mental talents were highly correlated - concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled 'g' (general ability)
psychobiology
Charles Spearman
Specific phobia
Systematic desensitization
45. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
human genomes
Ex Post Facto Design
selection studies
Hermann Ebbinghaus
46. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus
Herman von Helmholtz
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Conditioned Response
nonconscious
47. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment
theory
Hue
educational psychologist
Mary Ainsworth
48. 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.
Creativity
Masters & Johnson
Phoneme
Demand characteristics
49. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond
demand characteristics
audition
hindbrain
Displacement
50. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
aversive conditioning
anorexia nervosa
Panic Attack
engineering psychologist