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AP Psychology
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1. 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
Brainstorming
Consciousness
David Rosenhan
Symptom substitution
2. 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
Social Need
Excitement phase
Trichromats
pituitary gland
3. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
selective attention
descriptive statistics
Ex Post Facto Design
Stimulus Discrimination
4. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
gene
insulin
William Sheldon
Fundamental Attribution Error
5. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
Gender Identity
resting potential
parallel processing
Schema
6. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
association areas
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Stressor
amnesia
7. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Skinner Box
Monochromats
crystallized intelligence
Sublimation
8. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
Fundamental Attribution Error
Classical Conditioning
set point
Edward Bradford Titchener
9. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions
Functional fixedness
Oral Stage
Albert Ellis
semantic memory
10. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met
informed consent
unconscious
educational psychologist
Reasoning
11. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.
Cognitive Psychology
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
parathyroid
Dependence
12. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
Demand characteristics
Need
Albert Ellis
ethnocentrism
13. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
Placenta
Linguistics
Anna O.
postconventional level of moral development
14. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment
Survey
Mary Ainsworth
Howard Gardner
Stanley Milgram
15. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
Dream analysis
fraternal twins
convolutions
Fundamental Attribution Error
16. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat
limbic system
hypnosis
John B Watson
Standardization
17. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
procedural memory
interference
school psychologist
Reactance
18. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
Subliminal perception
operational definition
self-actualization
Noam Chomsky
19. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
Androgynous
Secondary Sex Characteristics
pineal gland
rehearsal
20. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
Counterconditioning
Ivan Pavlov
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Karen Horney
21. Graph of a frequency distribution that shows the number of instances of obtained scores - usually with the data points connect by straight lines
Social phobia
parasympathetic nervous system
cochlea
frequency polygon
22. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
William Dement
Groupthink
hindbrain
Secondary Punisher
23. 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
relative refractory period
audition
Regression
Reasoning
24. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
Divergent thinking
Descriptive Studies
Health psychology
Humanistic theory
25. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
behavioral genetics
Working through
Harry Harlow
Raymond Cattell
26. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
Behavior therapy
cochlea
Cross-sectional study
Psycholinguistics
27. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
psychologist
Transduction
rods
28. Style of parenting marked by emotional coldness - imposing rules and expecting obedience
aptitude test
John B Watson
Functional fixedness
authoritarian parenting
29. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
amnesia
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
crystallized intelligence
anorexia nervosa
30. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Phineas Gage
synaptic cleft
Language
31. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
Psycholinguistics
synapse
fluid intelligence
pons
32. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
Signal Detection Theory
Excitement phase
hypothalamus
authoritarian parenting
33. Did work on short-term memory
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
psychoanalyst
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
peripheral nervous system
34. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life
Preconscious
industrial/organizational psychologist
Benjamin Whorf
Tolerance
35. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
industrial/organizational psychologist
Behavior therapy
Fixation
Intimacy
36. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
Displacement
independent variable
Working through
Agoraphobia
37. Experience of the difference threshold
Personality
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
just noticeable difference (JND)
Working through
38. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
Self-perception Theory
Bonding
David Weschler
strain studies
39. Does research on how people function best with machines
Konrad Lorenz
engineering psychologist
Perception
counseling psychologist
40. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Receptive fields
endocrine glands
41. 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
prenatal development
pitch
Anna O.
42. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
David Weschler
Need
Token economy
Ekman & Friesen
43. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
Hyperopic
Variable-ratio Schedule
Hue
anorexia nervosa
44. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.
Mary Ainsworth
Attitudes
Kenneth Clark
Phobic disorders
45. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand
Grasping reflex
Latent Content
structuralism
Gestalt psychology
46. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.
Naturalistic observation
Panic Attack
Noam Chomsky
representative sample
47. The prenatal organism from the 5th through the 49th day after conception
Embryo
Vulnerability
Reactance
Survey
48. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp
action potential
Light
structuralism
EEG (electroencephalogram)
49. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
Saturation
Developmental Psychology
Ivan Pavlov
lens
50. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body
set point
Social Loafing
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Bystander Effect