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AP Psychology
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1. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision
behaviorism
cones
functional MRI (fMRI)
Grasping reflex
2. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher
Humanistic theory
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Standardization
Secondary Punisher
3. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.
Creativity
Antisocial personality disorder
Absolute threshold
placebo effect
4. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Anna Freud
motive
Percentile score
declarative memory
5. In Adler's theory - a feeling of openness with all humanity.
measure of central tendency
Social Interest
Visual cortex
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
6. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
Social Loafing
Photoreceptors
amygdala
convolutions
7. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
Imaginary Audience
Embryo
Regression
ex post facto study
8. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
Libido
correlational research
limbic system
audition
9. Organ lying between the stomach and small intestine; regulates blood sugar by secreting to regulating hormones insulin and glucagon
Convergent thinking
pancreas
Psycholinguistics
informed consent
10. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.
Self-efficacy
Ego
operational definition
Darley & Latane
11. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
Attributions
James-Lange theory of emotion
Motivation
Clark Hull
12. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
binocular cues
Hobson & McCarley
triarchic theory of intelligence
peripheral nervous system
13. The tendency of people in a group to seek concurrence with one another when reaching a decision - rather than effectively evaluating options.
Groupthink
Spontaneous Recovery
Phillip Zimbardo
amnesia
14. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.
thyroid gland
Dream
Depressive disorders
binocular cues
15. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords
sensory neurons
Charles Darwin
Phineas Gage
frontal lobes
16. Creates a computerized image using a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves
Fundamental Attribution Error
Assessment
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
sensory memory
17. 17th century English philosopher. Wrote that the mind was a 'blank slate' or 'tabula rasa'; that is - people are born without innate ideas. We are completely shaped by our environment .
John Locke
Phonology
Sublimation
Cross-sectional study
18. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
Phillip Zimbardo
temporal lobes
phenotype
Charles Darwin
19. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Edward Thorndike
Little Albert
difference threshold
epinephrine
20. Prejudice against the elderly and the resulting discrimination against them
empiricism
Ageism
somatic nervous system
Monochromats
21. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
psychologist
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Groupthink
22. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter
agonist
Robert Yerkes
retrograde amnesia
Dark adaptation
23. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
David Weschler
insulin
response bias
chunks
24. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions
behavioral genetics
hormone
eclectic
long-term potentiation
25. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates
Kurt Lewin
Wechsler intelligence tests
Clark Hull
memory span
26. A state of mental discomfort arising from a discrepancy between two or more of a person's beliefs or between a person's beliefs and overt behavior.
Cognitive Dissonance
pseudoscience
Expectancy Theories
token economy
27. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
representative sample
Psychotic
Cognitive Psychology
Stimulus Discrimination
28. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes
Hobson & McCarley
DNA
Cross-sectional Studies
Rosenthal & Jacobson
29. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.
Grasping reflex
pineal gland
Sociobiology
Psychoneuroimmunology
30. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives
Intimacy
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Language
nervous system
31. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits
Blood-Brain Barrier
Harry Stack Sullivan
Assimilation
Panic Attack
32. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
Shaping
Ageism
Heritability
Self-actualization
33. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment
Resilience
Rosenhan
Extrinsic motivation
Anal Stage
34. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
Conditioning
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
primacy effect
rods
35. Behaviorism/learning; pioneer in systematic desensitization - maintained that fear could be unlearned
Attachment
Mary Cover-Jones
optic nerve
Spontaneous Recovery
36. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory
Transduction
Zajonc & Markus
levels-of-processing approach
Socrates
37. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain
Obedience
convolutions
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Depressive disorders
38. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically
Preoperational stage
Subgoal analysis
observer bias
instinct
39. Intelligence and learning - self-fulfilling prophecy; Study Basics: Researchers misled teachers into believing that certain students had higher IQs. Teachers changed own behaviors and effectively raised the IQ of the randomly chosen students
action potential
Aaron Beck
Rosenthal & Jacobson
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
40. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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41. Freud's first stage of personality development - from birth to about age 2 - during which the instincts of infants are focused on the mouth as the primary pleasure center.
behaviorism
Oral Stage
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Genital Stage
42. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.
neuroscience
ex post facto study
conventional level of moral development
Social Influence
43. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior
John Garcia
shaping
Double-blind techniques
optic nerve
44. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals
chromosome
variable
pupil
olfaction
45. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
Phobic disorders
Critical Period
Placebo effect
receptor site
46. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works
Phobic disorders
functionalism
Double-blind techniques
Cross-sectional study
47. A group of psychological disorders characterized by a lack of reality testing and by deterioration of social and intellectual functioning and personality beginning before age 45 and lasting at least 6 months
Schizophrenic disorders
sociocultural psychology
Ivan Pavlov
Erik Erikson
48. First menstrual period
Zajonc & Markus
menarche
Psychotherapy
Opponent-process theory
49. The cessation of the ability to reproduce
cones
menopause
anterograde amnesia
Phillip Zimbardo
50. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.
synapse
Projection
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Prejudice