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AP Psychology
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1. Carries impulses from the eye to the brain
optic nerve
Stimulus Discrimination
Higher-order Conditioning
Phobic disorders
2. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
Generalized anxiety disorder
primacy effect
Language
Longitudinal Study
3. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
variable
Leon Festinger
Placebo effect
neurogenesis
4. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
Color Blindness
Sociobiology
René Descartes
Counterconditioning
5. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts
parietal lobes
Von Restorff effect
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
sensory memory
6. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
Nonverbal Communication
Brainstorming
Hyperopic
normal distribution
7. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Lev Vygotsky
flashbulb memories
Self-actualization
8. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands
Resilience
authoritarian parenting
informed consent
Herman von Helmholtz
9. Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.
Language
Personality disorders
Hobson & McCarley
Group Polarization
10. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body
set point
Vulnerability
Personal Fable
Higher-order Conditioning
11. Released by thyroid; hormone that regulates the body's metabolism; OVERACTIVE-over-excitability - insomnia - reduced attention span - fatigue - snap decisions - reduced concentration (hyperthyroidism); UNDERACTIVE-desire to sleep - constantly tired -
Body Language
confounding variable
thyroxine
Signal Detection Theory
12. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment
Transduction
hindbrain
bulimia nervosa
Extrinsic motivation
13. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Biofeedback
flashbulb memories
Motive
14. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
Psychosurgery
Babinski reflex
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Normal curve
15. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Aggression
ions
psychobiology
Konrad Lorenz
16. In an experiment - the group of participants to whom a treatment is given
experimental group
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Saturation
Projective Tests
17. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
Higher-order Conditioning
Morality
Standardization
Charles Spearman
18. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
Excitement phase
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Extrinsic motivation
frequency distribution
19. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
case study
Psychotic
Bulimia Nervosa
relative refractory period
20. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
dominant genes
Double-blind techniques
Gender stereotype
difference threshold
21. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input
Types
Robert Zajonc
transfer appropriate processing
ESP
22. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
refractory period
hypnosis
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Panic Attack
23. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
interference
James-Lange theory of emotion
dopamine
Cross-sectional study
24. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
anorexia nervosa
significant difference
motivated forgetting
Problem Solving
25. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning
Concrete operational stage
frequency distribution
survey research
Motivation
26. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
hindbrain
pupil
preconventional level of moral development
Decentration
27. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems
menarche
Creativity
counseling psychologist
Projection
28. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
refractory period
achievement test
neural impulse
ethics
29. A test score that has not been transformed or converted in any way
Raw score
adrenal glands
double-blind procedure
explicit memory
30. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat
neuroscience
visual acuity
habituation
Anorexia Nervosa
31. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal
synapse
John B Watson
Decision making
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
32. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.
encoding
Fetus
Prejudice
Embryo
33. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.
Visual cortex
serotonin
Premack principle
Object permanence
34. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.
Tolman
Higher-order Conditioning
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Interpretation
35. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
Language
Sensorimotor stage
Hobson & McCarley
pseudoscience
36. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after predetermined but varying amounts of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once after each interval
Latency Stage
Ideal Self
Solomon Asch
Variable-interval Schedule
37. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically
Preoperational stage
Excitement phase
Dependence
Resolution Phase
38. Constructed by Lewis Terman - originally used ratio IQ (MA/CA x 100); now based on deviation from mean
Expectancy Theories
Trait
Unconditioned Response
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
39. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
nonconscious
sensory adaptation
Emotion
Type A behavior
40. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe
empiricism
Halo effect
Grasping reflex
Carol Gilligan
41. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
eclectic
Defense Mechanism
Regression
Longitudinal Study
42. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives
Approach-approach conflict
polygenic inheritance
demand characteristics
Reasoning
43. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
Self-actualization
Self-efficacy
motor projection areas
motor neurons
44. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood
Reliability
Stimulant
Discrimination
Robert Yerkes
45. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.
Gazzaniga or Sperry
proactive interference
Rational-emotive therapy
Tolman
46. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses
dendrites
Conflict
authoritarian parenting
Elaboration Likelihood Model
47. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)
Symptom substitution
audition
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Gestalt psychology
48. The sense of hearing
Babinski reflex
Psychodynamically
norepinephrine
audition
49. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait
dominant genes
Convergent thinking
Intrinsic motivation
Masters & Johnson
50. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
Embryo
Psychodynamically
Regression
Spontaneous Recovery