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AP Psychology
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1. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Abnormal Behavior
Collective Unconscious
2. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they believe they are so special and unique that other people cannot understand them and risky behaviors will not harm them
Cross-sectional Studies
Personal Fable
John B Watson
Holmes & Rahe
3. The depth and richness of a hue determined by determined by the homogeneity of the wavelengths contained in the reflected light; also known as purity.
Saturation
Alzheimer's Disease
Raymond Cattell
adrenal glands
4. Pioneer in intelligence (IQ) tests - designed a test to identify slow learners in need of help-not applicable in the U.S. because it was too culture-bound (French)
Reinforcer
Halo effect
Major depressive disorder
Alfred Binet
5. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
Attachment
placebo
Denial
Bystander Effect
6. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research
Robert Zajonc
Lev Vygotsky
Decision making
ethics
7. Morality based on consequences to self
association areas
preconventional level of moral development
John B Watson
Grammar
8. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups
Erik Erikson
Anna O.
Reinforcer
Concordance rate
9. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
temporal lobes
Moro reflex
Classical Conditioning
Benjamin Whorf
10. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
Survey
Wechsler intelligence tests
frequency
memory
11. Emotional intelligence
Signal Detection Theory
Daniel Goleman
Embryo
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
12. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
procedural memory
Premack principle
anorexia nervosa
Aristotle
13. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function
Phineas Gage
Stimulus Discrimination
behavioral genetics
Genital Stage
14. The prenatal organism from the 5th through the 49th day after conception
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Embryo
statistics
self-actualization
15. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
Learning
Imaginary Audience
Preoperational stage
neuropsychologist
16. Process by which a conditioned response becomes associated with a stimulus that is similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus
parathyroid
thyroid gland
Stimulus Generalization
Generalized anxiety disorder
17. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
set point
Plateau phase
endorphins
Excitement phase
18. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
habituation
Mary Cover-Jones
Double bind
Arousal
19. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
population
ex post facto study
procedural memory
Deviation IQ
20. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
temporal lobes
nonconscious
21. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
Repression
Longitudinal Study
placebo
Consciousness
22. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.
Grammar
Color Blindness
afferent neuron nerve
psychology
23. The brain and spinal cord
Heritability
cognitive psychology
central nervous system
visual acuity
24. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
Psychodynamically
Higher-order Conditioning
Langer & Rodin
statistics
25. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.
genetic mapping
Cognitive theories
Learned helplessness
Social Cognition
26. Sense of taste
gustation
Ernst Weber
limbic system
experiment
27. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood
social psychologist
Stimulant
recessive gene
Solomon Asch
28. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
Projective Tests
gustation
Unconditioned Stimulus
debriefing
29. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings
Groupthink
Unconditioned Response
psychologist
engineering psychologist
30. In emerging Theo psychology that focuses on positive experiences; includes subjective well-being - self-determination - the relationship between positive emotions and physical health - and the factors that allow individuals - communities - and societ
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Observational Learning Theory
positive psychology
Wolpe
31. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Sucking reflex
Wolpe
amygdala
health psychologist
32. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.
monism
Residual type of schizophrenia
strain studies
Visual cortex
33. A trait or inherited characteristic that has increased in a population because it solved a problem of survival or reproduction
afferent neuron nerve
Dissociative identity disorder
timbre
adaptation
34. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Cognitive Dissonance
strain studies
set point
René Descartes
35. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad
amnesia
Morality
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Representative sample
36. Graph of a frequency distribution that shows the number of instances of obtained scores - usually with the data points connect by straight lines
blind spot
frequency polygon
elaborative rehearsal
Operant Conditioning
37. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters
axon terminal
neural plasticity
(cerebral) cortex
thyroxine
38. The inability to perceive different hues.
positive psychology
Color Blindness
Stanley Schachter
Social Interest
39. Observed group differences based on the era when people were born and grew up - exposing them to particular experiences that may affect the results of cross-sectional studies
Langer & Rodin
Time-out
Rooting reflex
cohort effect
40. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle
functionalism
Absolute threshold
Psycholinguistics
Anna Freud
41. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
top-down processing
William James
pituitary gland
Positive Reinforcement
42. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
behavior
emotional intelligence
human genomes
Circadian Rhythms
43. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
polarization
introspection
postconventional level of moral development
convolutions
44. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
Fulfillment
parallel processing
Object permanence
Conservation
45. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
Preconscious
Grasping reflex
psychoanalytic
mutation
46. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.
Benjamin Whorf
Norms
Discrimination
Phoneme
47. 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.
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
correlational research
Creativity
positive psychology
48. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior
Excitement phase
long-term potentiation
motor projection areas
clinical psychologist
49. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
Language
Critical Period
Psychoneuroimmunology
motor projection areas
50. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Psychophysics
sports psychologist
normal distribution
cerebellum