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AP Psychology
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1. Ability of the visual perceptual system to recognize that an object remains constant in size regardless of its distance from the observer or the size of its image on the retina.
Token economy
psychobiology
ex post facto study
Size constancy
2. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
mean
Self-fulfilling prophecy
aptitude test
Zygote
3. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
Dementia
Dependence
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
cohort effect
4. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
pseudoscience
memory span
Positive Reinforcement
retroactive interference
5. Occurs when recall is better for a distinctive item - even if it occurs in the middle of a list
Von Restorff effect
Sex
Semantics
Repression
6. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
moral development
cerebellum
Kurt Lewin
anorexia nervosa
7. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall
Trichromats
Anna O.
correlation coefficient
Fixed-ratio Schedule
8. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities
Saccades
sports psychologist
functional MRI (fMRI)
frontal lobes
9. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea
Self-fulfilling prophecy
receptor site
hindbrain
David Rosenhan
10. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
operational definition
ethics
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Abnormal psychology
11. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience
Babinski reflex
imagery
Trichromatic theory
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
12. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion
sensory memory
Ekman & Friesen
binocular cues
ex post facto study
13. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
Stimulant
Broca's area
Carl Jung
postconventional level of moral development
14. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative
Genital Stage
John Locke
Stereotypes
family studies
15. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
Heritability
aversive conditioning
Signal Detection Theory
debriefing
16. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
Extinction (classical conditioning)
ions
Latency Stage
Family therapy
17. A fertilized egg
Specific phobia
Zygote
Self
Mainstreaming
18. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp
EEG (electroencephalogram)
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
ESP
Carl Rogers
19. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
variable
Psychoactive Drug
Token economy
Bonding
20. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
educational psychologist
consolidation
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Herman von Helmholtz
21. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
temporal lobes
Reactance
Intelligence
Latent Learning
22. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal
James-Lange theory of emotion
Robert Zajonc
spinal cord
Lev Vygotsky
23. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
hypothalamus
Drug
genotype
replication
24. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals
endocrine glands
Interpretation
variable
Kenneth Clark
25. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.
David Rosenhan
antagonist
Child abuse
Body Language
26. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues
Projection
forensic psychologist
Secondary Punisher
anterograde amnesia
27. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
gonads
Kenneth Clark
nonconscious
Mainstreaming
28. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
iris
Gender Schema Theory
relative refractory period
behavioral genetics
29. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
Hans Eysenck
midbrain
empiricism
descriptive statistics
30. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it
informed consent
Reinforcer
Saccades
Phineas Gage
31. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
fraternal twins
William Dement
behavior
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
32. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
Social Loafing
Saccades
pupil
frequency polygon
33. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.
Superstitious Behavior
Transference
eclectic
placebo
34. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.
Unconscious
Prevalence
Stereotypes
Cross-sectional study
35. The study of the psychological and medical aspects of death and dying
Thanatology
pineal gland
thalamus
long-term potentiation
36. A period after firing when a neuron is returning to its normal polarize state and will only fire again if the incoming message open parentheses impulse) is stronger than usual; returning to arresting state
myelin sheath
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Self-actualization
relative refractory period
37. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
association areas
sample
Need for achievement
frequency
38. Electrically charged particles found both inside and outside a neuron; negative ions are found inside the cell membrane in a polarized neuron
parallel processing
ions
debriefing
Theory of mind
39. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle
hindbrain
Lev Vygotsky
Anna Freud
Biofeedback
40. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
demand characteristics
midbrain
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
encoding specificity principle
41. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
Latent Learning
Substance Abuser
Kenneth Clark
engineering psychologist
42. 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
Prosocial Behavior
empiricism
experiment
sensory adaptation
43. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.
cones
strain studies
heritability
Ideal Self
44. Shift in electrical charge in a tiny area of the neuron (temporary); transmits a long cell membranes leaving neuron and polarized state; needs higher than normal threshold of excitation to fire
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Langer & Rodin
graded potential
Coping
45. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically
Optic chiasm
Zajonc & Markus
Normal curve
neural plasticity
46. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
Charles Darwin
axon terminal
nonconscious
long-term memory
47. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
Conservation
zone of proximal development
Appraisal
binocular cues
48. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
receptor site
Creativity
Norms
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
49. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.
Panic Attack
Child abuse
range
Residual type of schizophrenia
50. The principle that those characteristics and behaviors that help organisms adapt - be fit - and survive will be passed on to successive generations - because flexible - fit individuals have a greater chance of reproduction
natural selection
monocular cues
Creativity
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