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AP Psychology
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1. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
double-blind procedure
Vasocongestion
Naturalistic observation
implicit memory
2. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors
Representative sample
amygdala
functionalism
sympathetic nervous system
3. 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
operational definition
Carol Gilligan
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
achievement test
4. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
chromosome
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Positive Reinforcement
Law of Effect
5. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
heritability
Burnout
ESP
Health psychology
6. 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
declarative memory
William James
Harry Harlow
Socrates
7. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
Vulnerability
zone of proximal development
Ex Post Facto Design
Repression
8. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience
refractory period
psychobiology
moral development
sympathetic nervous system
9. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids
Health psychology
Sensorimotor stage
parathormone
experimental group
10. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data
psychometrician
thalamus
Ego
Opponent-process theory
11. Neurotransmitter that affects sleep - arousal - mood - appetite; lack of it is linked with depression
Expectancy Theories
Divergent thinking
serotonin
Fixation
12. Rules of proper and acceptable conduct that investigators use to guide psychological research
functional MRI (fMRI)
Developmental Psychology
educational psychologist
ethics
13. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
Dream
Groupthink
Problem Solving
strain studies
14. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met
Rape
informed consent
receptor site
Cognitive Dissonance
15. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time
Need for achievement
Type A behavior
Social Facilitation
Anal Stage
16. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.
median
sports psychologist
agonist
Bystander Effect
17. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
pons
Perception
Ageism
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
18. A descriptive research method in which researchers study behavior in its natural context.
Approach-avoidance conflict
Egocentrism
conventional level of moral development
Naturalistic observation
19. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.
family studies
Prejudice
Social Cognition
Mainstreaming
20. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.
hypnosis
positive psychology
Vulnerability
Naturalistic observation
21. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
Noam Chomsky
transfer appropriate processing
Reasoning
Backward search
22. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
preconscious
Wilhelm Wundt
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
23. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
Divergent thinking
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Interpersonal Attraction
levels-of-processing approach
24. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords
sensory neurons
Stress
pons
Extinction (operant conditioning)
25. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
Percentile score
Prejudice
Grasping reflex
Health psychology
26. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Little Albert
central nervous system
Receptive fields
cochlea
27. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
endorphins
John Locke
Self-actualization
memory span
28. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)
placebo effect
Social phobia
Insomnia
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
29. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival
Von Restorff effect
memory span
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Depressive disorders
30. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
Depressive disorders
timbre
Convergent thinking
Sociobiology
31. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Psychophysics
Humanistic theory
David McClelland
Defense Mechanism
32. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
emotional intelligence
hippocampus
Thanatology
Descriptive Studies
33. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
hypnosis
representative sample
Hyperopic
Drive
34. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
selection studies
corpus callosum
Elizabeth Loftus
hypnosis
35. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems
engineering psychologist
psychoanalyst
Edward Bradford Titchener
naturalistic observation
36. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
opponent-process theory of emotion
sample
Bonding
Bipolar disorder
37. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
Self-actualization
Aversive counterconditioning
Howard Gardner
Phallic Stage
38. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
Conflict
Benjamin Whorf
Nonverbal Communication
Elizabeth Loftus
39. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information
afferent neuron nerve
Fixation
Personality disorders
retroactive interference
40. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
synaptic vesicles
sports psychologist
Appraisal
ethics
41. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
spinal cord
schema
population
measure of central tendency
42. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance
Factor analysis
Robert Yerkes
fluid intelligence
Reliability
43. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
Egocentrism
correlational research
Psychoactive Drug
Superstitious Behavior
44. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.
Phobic disorders
industrial/organizational psychologist
Learning
token economy
45. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
Group Polarization
menopause
conventional level of moral development
Debriefing
46. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe
lens
Reasoning
Francis Galton
imagery
47. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works
evolutionary psychology
functionalism
Cognitive theories
iris
48. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Counterconditioning
corpus callosum
Negative Reinforcement
49. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
Dichromats
cerebellum
Decision making
serotonin
50. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
behavior
lens
Longitudinal Study
ex post facto study