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AP Psychology
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1. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
optic nerve
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Substance Abuser
Henry Murray
2. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior
retroactive interference
Theory of mind
long-term potentiation
Cognitive Dissonance
3. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
crystallized intelligence
motor neurons
school psychologist
Metal retardation
4. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands
Hyperopic
Dichromats
Resilience
hypothalamus
5. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
transfer appropriate processing
refractory period
encoding specificity principle
Puberty
6. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Validity
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
cerebellum
7. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
Self-actualization
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Coping
Egocentrism
8. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)
Group therapy
Wechsler intelligence tests
ethics
Punishment
9. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
Latent Content
Expectancy Theories
Preconscious
neuron
10. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
Self-actualization
Learned helplessness
monism
placebo effect
11. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids
Id
Insomnia
parathormone
Wechsler intelligence tests
12. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher
Prevalence
Placebo effect
significant difference
Edward Thorndike
13. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
Personal Fable
Social Loafing
Gender Identity
Panic Attack
14. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
Algorithm
Rooting reflex
psychology
resting potential
15. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information
correlational research
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Social Loafing
memory
16. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
declarative memory
hindbrain
Demand characteristics
difference threshold
17. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.
Myopic
frequency distribution
synaptic cleft
Aaron Beck
18. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions
selection studies
emotional intelligence
afferent neuron nerve
Social Cognition
19. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
Lawrence Kohlberg
pons
significant difference
health psychologist
20. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
Walter B. Cannon
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
temporal lobes
genetics
21. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
Mainstreaming
binocular cues
Id
polarization
22. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
gene
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
23. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
Generalized anxiety disorder
Robert Sternberg
Excitement phase
aptitude test
24. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event
Raymond Cattell
Percentile score
retrograde amnesia
levels-of-processing approach
25. 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
dualism
independent variable
Consciousness
Case study
26. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
neurotransmitters
random sample
Broca's area
Gender
27. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal
difference threshold
Vulnerability
James-Lange theory of emotion
Premack principle
28. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
hypnosis
Biofeedback
motor projection areas
Longitudinal Study
29. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
acetylcholine (ACh)
Trichromatic theory
declarative memory
Representative sample
30. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions
iris
preconventional level of moral development
somatic nervous system
neuropsychologist
31. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
introspection
menopause
dependent variable
working memory
32. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
demand characteristics
Collective Unconscious
implicit memory
Psychodynamically
33. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
sample
fraternal twins
Groupthink
Developmental Psychology
34. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
pupil
Phonology
hypnosis
pineal gland
35. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
Reaction Formation
Appraisal
episodic memory
Behavior therapy
36. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation
Latency Stage
science
variable
inhibitory neurotransmitter
37. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
dependent variable
Representative sample
Heuristics
38. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Hobson & McCarley
Interpersonal Attraction
Gazzaniga or Sperry
39. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time
percentile score
Type A behavior
sensory adaptation
Psychoactive Drug
40. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.
Bipolar disorder
(cerebral) cortex
token economy
Imaginary Audience
41. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response
brainstem
Latent Learning
glial cells
Extinction (classical conditioning)
42. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.
Schizophrenic disorders
Secondary Reinforcer
Discrimination
Egocentrism
43. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
Psychophysics
Delusions
Hans Eysenck
graded potential
44. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'
correlational research
Client-centered therapy
pituitary gland
Stimulus Discrimination
45. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
Walter B. Cannon
genetics
sports psychologist
frequency distribution
46. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age
Intelligence
fluid intelligence
Latent Learning
Babinski reflex
47. Graph of a frequency distribution that shows the number of instances of obtained scores - usually with the data points connect by straight lines
frequency polygon
Free association
Fixed-ratio Schedule
preconventional level of moral development
48. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary
Gordon Allport
Deviation IQ
Substance Abuser
dopamine
49. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
Henry Murray
Teratogen
Convergent thinking
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
50. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
Elizabeth Loftus
Photoreceptors
postconventional level of moral development
set point