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AP Psychology
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1. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
gate control theory
Superstitious Behavior
Archetypes
retrieval
2. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)
Sucking reflex
Wechsler intelligence tests
Robert Rosenthal
Gender Schema Theory
3. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Sucking reflex
Demand characteristics
receptor site
Withdrawal Symptoms
4. Occurs when recall is better for a distinctive item - even if it occurs in the middle of a list
Preoperational stage
Reflex
Von Restorff effect
unconscious
5. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time
Social Cognition
episodic memory
sound localization
sympathetic nervous system
6. Colored part of the eye that regulates size of pupil
Herman von Helmholtz
heritability
iris
Group
7. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.
Ernst Weber
Critical Period
Concordance rate
Vulnerability
8. 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
Reflex
Extrinsic motivation
Agoraphobia
Personal Fable
9. Neutral stimulus that - through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus - begins to elicit a conditioned response
behaviorism
Representative sample
Conditioned Stimulus
independent variable
10. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.
axon terminal
Superego
Oedipus Complex
opponent-process theory of emotion
11. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
Functional fixedness
explicit memory
Longitudinal Study
Psychoactive Drug
12. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
Personal Fable
Projection
Dissociative amnesia
amnesia
13. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints
Decentration
David McClelland
declarative memory
Wolpe
14. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
Psychotic
top-down processing
amygdala
dendrites
15. Reproductive glands-male - testes; female - ovaries
Impression Formation
Konrad Lorenz
strain studies
gonads
16. The brain and spinal cord
central nervous system
cornea
Defense Mechanism
Rosenthal & Jacobson
17. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
Gestalt psychology
Extrinsic motivation
audition
retrograde amnesia
18. The biochemical processes that make it easier for the neuron to respond again when it has been stimulated
Kurt Lewin
Decision making
long-term potentiation
cones
19. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
Libido
Agoraphobia
Extrinsic motivation
Interpersonal Attraction
20. 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
glial cells
Cognitive theories
Rooting reflex
21. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
semantic memory
Language
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
hormone
22. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
lens
René Descartes
motor neurons
percentile score
23. Carries impulses from the eye to the brain
optic nerve
frontal lobes
genotype
Lewis Terman
24. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement
kinesthesis
experiment
Specific phobia
Charles Darwin
25. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Monochromats
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
experimenter bias
Karen Horney
26. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception
Manifest Content
polarization
Charles Darwin
bottom-up processing
27. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
Client-centered therapy
temporal lobes
structuralism
adaptation
28. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems
Social Influence
dopamine
serotonin
psychoanalyst
29. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
debriefing
Cognitive theories
Wernicke's area
pineal gland
30. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Reflex
Dream
Edward Thorndike
Light
31. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
cerebellum
Norms
Ernst Weber
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
32. The situation that occurs when the drug becomes part of the body's functioning and produces withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued
glial cells
Hans Eysenck
Dependence
Robert Sternberg
33. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.
Sucking reflex
Projection
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
measure of central tendency
34. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus
Approach-approach conflict
Stanley Schachter
Conditioned Response
declarative memory
35. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Sociobiology
natural selection
memory span
psychology
36. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.
behavioral genetics
Consciousness
Walter B. Cannon
maintenance rehearsal
37. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches
pupil
Robert Zajonc
eclectic
Primary Reinforcer
38. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.
acetylcholine (ACh)
Elizabeth Loftus
Transduction
David Weschler
39. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Trait
Drive
Abnormal Behavior
40. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors
polarization
amygdala
Gender stereotype
variable
41. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
neuron
frequency polygon
Saccades
Mary Ainsworth
42. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
Preoperational stage
social psychologist
Carl Jung
neurogenesis
43. 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)
Alfred Binet
Rooting reflex
Generalized anxiety disorder
adaptation
44. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
measure of central tendency
Walter B. Cannon
Darley & Latane
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
45. An individual who takes part in an experiment and whose behavior is observed as part of the data collection process
Placenta
participant
Wilhelm Wundt
Oral Stage
46. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.
Insight therapy
Rooting reflex
normal distribution
Sensorimotor stage
47. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
Biofeedback
structuralism
Vasocongestion
pons
48. Morality based on consequences to self
preconventional level of moral development
response bias
correlation coefficient
interneurons
49. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.
Oedipus Complex
Erik Erikson
Cognitive Dissonance
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
50. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
Logic
David McClelland
bulimia nervosa
Deindividuation