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AP Psychology
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1. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream
Denial
Manifest Content
Antisocial personality disorder
Divergent thinking
2. Bundles of axons
Martin Seligman
nerve
midbrain
Paul Ekman
3. In Piaget's view - a specific mental structure; an organized way of interacting with the environment and experiencing it- a generalization a child makes based on comparable occurences of various actins - usally physical - motor actions
motor projection areas
Schema
Decision making
self-actualization
4. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent
pseudoscience
genetics
David McClelland
observer bias
5. The process by which the location of sound is determined
sound localization
state-dependent learning
Creativity
preconventional level of moral development
6. Moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication
Conformity
Lawrence Kohlberg
experimental group
Extrinsic motivation
7. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
humanistic psychology
Generalized anxiety disorder
David Rosenhan
difference threshold
8. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
naturalistic observation
Morality
split brain patients
unconscious
9. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Fundamental Attribution Error
Representative sample
rehearsal
nature
10. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes
DNA
Shaping
Factor analysis
Self-actualization
11. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.
Bipolar disorder
Psychotherapy
Anal Stage
Negative Reinforcement
12. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress
Approach-approach conflict
Albert Ellis
Holmes & Rahe
acetylcholine (ACh)
13. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
Personality
instinct
recency effect
Reliability
14. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
audition
endocrine system
Linguistics
Teratogen
15. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles
Phillip Zimbardo
neurotransmitters
Blood-Brain Barrier
Aristotle
16. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
Counterconditioning
bottom-up processing
gonads
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
17. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Prevalence
Phonology
schema
18. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
engineering psychologist
mutation
Genital Stage
Attributions
19. Sense of taste
Broca's area
gustation
cognitive psychology
synapse
20. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes
scientific method
Psychoanalysis
Secondary Reinforcer
Raw score
21. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
experimenter bias
Tolman
normal distribution
Elaboration Likelihood Model
22. 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)
Self-actualization
excitatory neurotransmitter
Stereotypes
Alfred Binet
23. Electrically charged particles found both inside and outside a neuron; negative ions are found inside the cell membrane in a polarized neuron
ions
thalamus
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Edward Bradford Titchener
24. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
Phobic disorders
amnesia
Reasoning
Collective Unconscious
25. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
amnesia
Mediation
pineal gland
Placenta
26. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.
Psychotherapy
gustation
refractory period
John Garcia
27. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Konrad Lorenz
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Reliability
primacy effect
28. 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
Carl Jung
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Hyperopic
semantic memory
29. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
genetic mapping
Working through
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Rational-emotive therapy
30. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes
Dissociative disorders
habituation
fraternal twins
heritability
31. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
gene
Higher-order Conditioning
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
adrenal glands
32. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
Means-ends analysis
Longitudinal Study
motive
long-term memory
33. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function
Phineas Gage
bulimia nervosa
Interpretation
short-term storage
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
hindbrain
peripheral nervous system
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Fixed-ratio Schedule
35. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
Interpersonal Attraction
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Consciousness
sensory memory
36. Pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning) - stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls - children mimicked play
Albert Bandura
hypothalamus
John Locke
Trichromatic theory
37. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.
Family therapy
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Hermann Rorschach
Motivation
38. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary
Monochromats
authoritarian parenting
school psychologist
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
39. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.
Double bind
Punishment
rods
Halo effect
40. Morality based on consequences to self
Paul Ekman
Light
preconventional level of moral development
Homeostasis
41. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.
psychologist
Semantics
recessive gene
Obedience
42. 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.
aphasia
Mediation
parallel processing
Von Restorff effect
43. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands
Self-efficacy
Arousal
Sociobiology
Phoneme
44. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Motive
Harry Harlow
Oral Stage
45. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
René Descartes
hindbrain
monism
Prejudice
46. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors
forensic psychologist
decay
Social Categorization
amygdala
47. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
Manifest Content
Primary Reinforcer
frontal lobes
Subgoal analysis
48. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
Carl Jung
Ekman & Friesen
Hermann Rorschach
sports psychologist
49. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age
Elizabeth Loftus
Self-actualization
Representative sample
Thanatology
50. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
Body Language
midbrain
mode
parallel processing