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AP Psychology
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1. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
engineering psychologist
Decision making
Excitement phase
experimental group
2. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.
heritability
Absolute threshold
synaptic vesicles
Specific phobia
3. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.
Tolman
Social Categorization
Secondary Reinforcer
short-term storage
4. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
Semantics
Experimental design
Primary Reinforcer
bulimia nervosa
5. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
Anna O.
peripheral nervous system
Bipolar disorder
Burnout
6. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
Rosenthal & Jacobson
dualism
polygenic inheritance
token economy
7. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
inhibitory neurotransmitter
clinical psychologist
Ekman & Friesen
Conditioning
8. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.
Reflex
Body Language
participant
elaborative rehearsal
9. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.
bottom-up processing
Bonding
Sensation
Interpretation
10. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
mode
Body Language
David McClelland
neural impulse
11. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
Receptive fields
Abraham Maslow
Myopic
Ekman & Friesen
12. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.
replication
motor projection areas
Body Language
Antisocial personality disorder
13. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
percentile score
gustation
Manifest Content
Elaboration Likelihood Model
14. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned
Positive Reinforcement
Primary Reinforcer
set point
Personal Fable
15. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
Family therapy
primacy effect
chunks
Descriptive Studies
16. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
Phineas Gage
gene
hippocampus
Collective Unconscious
17. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
Light
Subgoal analysis
Myopic
Optic chiasm
18. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
action potential
Abraham Maslow
correlation coefficient
19. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
Negative Reinforcement
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
replication
sound localization
20. 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
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
anorexia nervosa
theory
experimenter bias
21. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships
science
Social Need
memory
Antisocial personality disorder
22. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
brainstem
Altruism
episodic memory
interneurons
23. 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.
consolidation
pancreas
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Oedipus Complex
24. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
Lucid Dream
Social Facilitation
Gender Schema Theory
William Dement
25. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse
authoritative parenting
Negative Reinforcement
neurotransmitters
instinct
26. 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
Sex
encoding specificity principle
Collective Unconscious
Ideal Self
27. Creates a computerized image using a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves
Drive
Kurt Lewin
retrieval
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
28. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
mean
Interpersonal Attraction
vestibular sense
29. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
Obedience
Logic
Variable-interval Schedule
Conflict
30. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.
parathormone
Positive Reinforcement
Prototype
health psychologist
31. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
Cognitive Dissonance
median
split brain patients
Punishment
32. A test designed to predict a person's future performance
Holmes & Rahe
Insomnia
aptitude test
dominant genes
33. Theory that holds that an observer's perception depends not only on the intensity of a stimulus but also on the observer's motivation - the criteria he or she sets for determining that a signal is present - and on the background noise.
self-actualization
Variable-ratio Schedule
sensory memory
Signal Detection Theory
34. 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
positive psychology
range
Conformity
polarization
35. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Trichromats
Attachment
Tolerance
36. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
Depressive disorders
Spontaneous Recovery
Withdrawal Symptoms
prenatal development
37. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources
William Dement
dualism
Edward Bradford Titchener
Coping
38. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Naturalistic observation
Raw score
receptor site
39. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
Humanistic theory
Circadian Rhythms
Androgynous
Temperament
40. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.
Preoperational stage
Cognitive Psychology
cornea
Anna O.
41. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)
polarization
Fulfillment
bulimia nervosa
Phineas Gage
42. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
Cognitive theories
glial cells
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Bystander Effect
43. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory
Functional fixedness
Observational Learning Theory
Abraham Maslow
Reinforcer
44. Creates a computerized image using x-rays passed through the brain
Saturation
Nonverbal Communication
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Problem Solving
45. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
epinephrine
Abnormal psychology
neurotransmitters
Excitement phase
46. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
Linguistics
pineal gland
Self-efficacy
Law of Effect
47. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.
Depressive disorders
Unconditioned Response
Arousal
top-down processing
48. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory
Androgynous
Dissociative disorders
Stimulant
Validity
49. 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)
action potential
Phallic Stage
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
developmental psychologist
50. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
Latent Learning
Reliability
Hue
Phobic disorders