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AP Psychology
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1. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all
endocrine system
Psychoanalysis
photoreceptors
all-or-none principle
2. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
Transference
forensic psychologist
sensory neurons
fraternal twins
3. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
Accommodation
Sublimation
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
structuralism
4. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
visual acuity
interneurons
Substance Abuser
crystallized intelligence
5. Cognition and memory; studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony
Elizabeth Loftus
Babinski reflex
response bias
gate control theory
6. Theorist who both aided in the development of the trichromatic theory of color perception and Place theory of pitch perception.
twin studies
Altruism
bottom-up processing
Herman von Helmholtz
7. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state
Resolution Phase
implicit memory
retroactive interference
double-blind procedure
8. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place
Prejudice
Rape
Collective Unconscious
working memory
9. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
debriefing
Edward Bradford Titchener
Secondary Punisher
Representative sample
10. Piaget's thrid stage of cognitive development (lasting from approximately age 6 or 7 to age 11 or 12) - during which the child develops the ability to understand constant factors in the environment - rules - and higher-order symbolic systems
Socrates
Teratogen
Concrete operational stage
Negative Reinforcement
11. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep
Insomnia
difference threshold
placebo effect
Types
12. 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
Raymond Cattell
relative refractory period
Representative sample
association areas
13. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.
efferent neuron nerve
evolutionary psychology
Type B behavior
Psychotic
14. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Sensation
Unconditioned Stimulus
postconventional level of moral development
15. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions
Primary Punisher
Stressor
Stanley Milgram
Transduction
16. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.
working memory
Demand characteristics
Systematic desensitization
Secondary Reinforcer
17. An insight therapy - developed be Carl Rogers - that seeks to help people evaluate the world and themselves from their own perspective by providing them with a nondirective environment and unconditional positive regard; also known as person-centered
excitatory neurotransmitter
nervous system
Brightness
Client-centered therapy
18. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
binocular cues
lens
humanistic psychology
Saturation
19. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.
Family therapy
Learned helplessness
Social Cognition
Circadian Rhythms
20. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
Raymond Cattell
Dark adaptation
inhibitory neurotransmitter
parietal lobes
21. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Agoraphobia
Variable-ratio Schedule
Aaron Beck
Konrad Lorenz
22. Prejudice against the elderly and the resulting discrimination against them
Fixed-interval Schedule
behaviorism
Wechsler intelligence tests
Ageism
23. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
Secondary Sex Characteristics
elaborative rehearsal
storage
Bystander Effect
24. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
William James
Validity
serotonin
Problem Solving
25. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
social psychologist
selection studies
excitatory neurotransmitter
Zygote
26. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
nurture
Type A behavior
observer bias
Agoraphobia
27. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood
Puberty
Unconditioned Stimulus
Perception
hindbrain
28. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.
Trait
pituitary gland
Specific phobia
Latent Content
29. The inability to perceive different hues.
Color Blindness
Edward Bradford Titchener
Approach-avoidance conflict
Self-actualization
30. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body
set point
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Harry Stack Sullivan
resting potential
31. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
convolutions
Critical Period
sports psychologist
observer bias
32. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
optic nerve
Critical Period
Skinner Box
Group
33. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
mode
Learned helplessness
pons
science
34. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
adrenal glands
synaptic cleft
Positive Reinforcement
educational psychologist
35. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience
dopamine
Raymond Cattell
psychobiology
relative refractory period
36. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
bottom-up processing
sample
Self-efficacy
Social Facilitation
37. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
Variable-ratio Schedule
cerebellum
Androgynous
Latent Content
38. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Wechsler intelligence tests
Phineas Gage
shaping
39. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
short-term storage
moral development
Trichromatic theory
David McClelland
40. 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 .
Ageism
Transference
John Locke
Genital Stage
41. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
nature
Functional fixedness
Preconscious
forebrain
42. Establish the relationship between two variables
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Backward search
correlational research
self-fulfilling prophecy
43. Emotional intelligence
developmental psychologist
Theory of mind
Daniel Goleman
Learning
44. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.
Classical Conditioning
limbic system
Vulnerability
Solomon Asch
45. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'
Superego
science
serotonin
thalamus
46. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
dominant genes
Hans Eysenck
fovea
Fixation
47. The brain and spinal cord
Reflex
central nervous system
Imaginary Audience
audition
48. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
Ivan Pavlov
Delusions
cognitive psychology
Zajonc & Markus
49. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
Concept
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Self-actualization
anorexia nervosa
50. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Groupthink
Robert Rosenthal
Generalized anxiety disorder
Anxiety