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AP Psychology
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1. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.
Karen Horney
Depressive disorders
glial cells
sensory adaptation
2. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Preconscious
hindbrain
Problem Solving
3. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events
Sensorimotor stage
resting potential
Intimacy
thalamus
4. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
median
case study
Burnout
bulimia nervosa
5. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; criticized Freud - stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses - rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts - neurotic trends; concept of 'basic anxiety'
pons
Karen Horney
preconventional level of moral development
instinct
6. The highness or lowness of a sound
pitch
correlation coefficient
norepinephrine
Generalized anxiety disorder
7. The suppression of one bit of information by another
Light
Secondary Reinforcer
Theory of mind
interference
8. A descriptive research method in which researchers study behavior in its natural context.
Naturalistic observation
fovea
significant difference
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
9. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research
Means-ends analysis
short-term storage
Lev Vygotsky
Holmes & Rahe
10. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
Tolerance
response bias
Benjamin Whorf
standard deviation
11. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories
postconventional level of moral development
Subliminal perception
hippocampus
working memory
12. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
gene
psychiatrist
Raymond Cattell
William James
13. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
Transference
scientific method
fluid intelligence
crystallized intelligence
14. A number that expresses the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables - ranging from -1 to +1
Antisocial personality disorder
instinct
correlation coefficient
Sex
15. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'
pituitary gland
Schema
menopause
monism
16. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching
Imaginary Audience
Brainstorming
eclectic
Noam Chomsky
17. 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.
Transference
monism
Longitudinal Study
nurture
18. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body
gene
Prosocial Behavior
episodic memory
kinesthesis
19. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.
Token economy
psychometrician
receptor site
Reasoning
20. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions
mode
René Descartes
decay
triarchic theory of intelligence
21. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
Receptive fields
Martin Seligman
Attributions
agonist
22. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
Convergent thinking
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Projective Tests
Major depressive disorder
23. The general state of being aware of and responsive to events in the environment - as well as one's own mental processes
Consciousness
Symptom substitution
hypothesis
genetic mapping
24. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
Jean Piaget
Aggression
Representative sample
Superstitious Behavior
25. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
hypothalamus
olfaction
Lev Vygotsky
26. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
iris
Stress
Conservation
genetics
27. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
Sublimation
Superstitious Behavior
behavioral genetics
Stimulus Discrimination
28. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory
experiment
Algorithm
levels-of-processing approach
behaviorism
29. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill
Personality disorders
Body Language
placebo
bottom-up processing
30. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction
René Descartes
psychometrician
Symptom substitution
cochlea
31. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids
Humanistic theory
Self-actualization
Logic
parathormone
32. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.
Mediation
Cognitive Psychology
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
pseudoscience
33. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed
Little Albert
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
preconscious
hindbrain
34. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
peripheral nervous system
measure of central tendency
Displacement
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
35. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.
implicit memory
Photoreceptors
genetic mapping
temporal lobes
36. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning
Brightness
survey research
central nervous system
Wechsler intelligence tests
37. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
Algorithm
consolidation
relative refractory period
Morpheme
38. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)
correlation coefficient
Robert Sternberg
preconscious
epinephrine
39. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.
Morality
Psychoanalysis
Repression
Secondary Sex Characteristics
40. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
Robert Zajonc
difference threshold
Wernicke's area
behavioral genetics
41. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
action potential
decay
correlation coefficient
Konrad Lorenz
42. Netlike system of neurons that weaves through limbic system and plays an important role in attention - arousal - and alert functions; arouses and alerts higher parts of the brain; anesthetics work by temporary shutting off RF system
operational definition
Object permanence
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Sociobiology
43. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities
Conformity
Kurt Lewin
Carol Gilligan
forebrain
44. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment
Phobic disorders
encoding
Secondary Punisher
Learning
45. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent
clinical psychologist
pseudoscience
Divergent thinking
forebrain
46. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
Leon Festinger
Psychoactive Drug
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Size constancy
47. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
normal distribution
timbre
Optic chiasm
behaviorism
48. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities
Aggression
Decentration
functional MRI (fMRI)
antagonist
49. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable
confounding variable
retina
hormone
elaborative rehearsal
50. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
Divergent thinking
Norms
normal distribution
dendrites