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AP Psychology
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1. Response to the belief that the IV will have an effect - rather than the IV's actual effect - which can be a confounding variable
placebo effect
percentile score
hindbrain
Opponent-process theory
2. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
conventional level of moral development
Von Restorff effect
Lev Vygotsky
Self-efficacy
3. Colored part of the eye that regulates size of pupil
iris
Repression
ions
Wechsler intelligence tests
4. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
flashbulb memories
crystallized intelligence
Fulfillment
long-term memory
5. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.
Insight therapy
Logic
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Self-efficacy
6. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
Psychoactive Drug
pupil
industrial/organizational psychologist
excitatory neurotransmitter
7. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.
Anna O.
semantic memory
Social Influence
Sublimation
8. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Preoperational stage
Drug
dualism
9. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
parathyroid
Operant Conditioning
Trichromatic theory
10. 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
Fundamental Attribution Error
kinesthesis
response bias
Phineas Gage
11. Noradrenaline; chemical which is excitatory - similar to adrenaline - and affects arousal and memory; raises blood pressure by causing blood vessels to become constricted - but also carried by bloodstream to the anterior pituitary which relaxes ACTH
authoritarian parenting
rods
Hermann Rorschach
norepinephrine
12. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
Stimulus Discrimination
Preconscious
normal distribution
behavior
13. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results
Learned Helplessness
placebo
self-fulfilling prophecy
Homeostasis
14. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.
John Garcia
Superego
acetylcholine (ACh)
Karen Horney
15. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
Longitudinal Study
parathyroid
Grasping reflex
genetics
16. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.
Dementia
Displacement
Prototype
gustation
17. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
John Locke
Theory of mind
developmental psychologist
Robert Rosenthal
18. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters
synaptic vesicles
token economy
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Psychoactive Drug
19. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
psychology
Hue
Erik Erikson
Free association
20. The brain and spinal cord
central nervous system
Dichromats
parietal lobes
Biofeedback
21. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat
Means-ends analysis
split brain patients
Anorexia Nervosa
Robert Sternberg
22. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
Variable-interval Schedule
psychology
lens
Attachment
23. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.
(cerebral) cortex
Dream analysis
resting potential
Karen Horney
24. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat
Generalized anxiety disorder
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Subgoal analysis
pitch
25. A person's sense of being male or female
Motivation
Social Influence
parallel processing
Gender Identity
26. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
psychologist
Nonverbal Communication
Bipolar disorder
Little Albert
27. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
Skinner Box
Learned Helplessness
Double-blind techniques
Tolerance
28. Inability to understand or use language
Subgoal analysis
Phobic disorders
control group
aphasia
29. A descriptive statistic that measures the variability of data from the mean of the sample
Imaginary Audience
motor neurons
standard deviation
Charles Darwin
30. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Socrates
Variable-ratio Schedule
Critical Period
31. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking
cognitive psychology
positive psychology
Backward search
Phillip Zimbardo
32. Reflex that causes a newborn to turn the head toward a light touch on lips or cheek
cohort effect
Rooting reflex
eclectic
Means-ends analysis
33. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
dendrites
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Brightness
Karen Horney
34. 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
instinct
ex post facto study
Concrete operational stage
Group Polarization
35. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
maintenance rehearsal
Conflict
David Rosenhan
Perception
36. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Intrinsic motivation
Cognitive Psychology
Shaping
37. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
Learned helplessness
Concept
Superego
memory span
38. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
Regression
Placenta
Kenneth Clark
Receptive fields
39. The time in to development of an organism when it is especially sensitive to certain environmental influences; outside of that period the same influences will have far less effect
optic nerve
Superstitious Behavior
Trichromats
Critical Period
40. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
behaviorism
Dream
Preconscious
Alfred Adler
41. The sense of hearing
encoding
audition
temporal lobes
experimenter bias
42. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
Drive
Insight therapy
endocrine glands
neuropsychologist
43. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
Social Loafing
rods
Myopic
Collective Unconscious
44. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Ekman & Friesen
Dissociative identity disorder
Noam Chomsky
Motive
45. 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
participant
flashbulb memories
amnesia
Client-centered therapy
46. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
health psychologist
Semantics
replication
47. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.
statistics
Robert Zajonc
Biofeedback
Absolute threshold
48. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives
Skinner Box
Approach-approach conflict
memory
parathyroid
49. Deals with the extent to which heredity and the environment each influence behavior
Ex Post Facto Design
scientific method
Aristotle
nature-nurture controversy
50. A fertilized egg
Zygote
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
endocrine glands
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