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AP Psychology
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1. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.
Conditioned Stimulus
Syntax
Double bind
cones
2. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.
Hobson & McCarley
Creativity
Conformity
positive psychology
3. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
Halo effect
Stress
opponent-process theory of emotion
Sucking reflex
4. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions
hormone
Emotion
Leon Festinger
Moro reflex
5. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
sensory neurons
Edward Bradford Titchener
pitch
Kenneth Clark
6. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body
hypnosis
moral development
kinesthesis
menopause
7. 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.
Learned helplessness
Photoreceptors
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
pitch
8. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream
DNA
parallel processing
experimental group
endocrine glands
9. Holds information for processing; fragile; also called short term memory or working memory
short-term storage
declarative memory
family studies
token economy
10. A state of consciousness that occurs during sleep - usually accompanied by vivid visual - tactile - or auditory imagery.
Albert Bandura
Dream
control group
Psychotherapy
11. A person's sense of being male or female
Cross-sectional Studies
Gender Identity
Alfred Binet
psychology
12. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
Grasping reflex
chunks
adrenal glands
polygenic inheritance
13. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
sports psychologist
instinct
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Skinner Box
14. A need or want that causes someone to act
Group therapy
nature-nurture controversy
motive
Blood-Brain Barrier
15. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population
Trichromats
Heritability
crystallized intelligence
Carl Rogers
16. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
percentile score
Insomnia
crystallized intelligence
Alfred Adler
17. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality
neural plasticity
forebrain
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
pons
18. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.
Reaction Formation
Rape
Learned Helplessness
opponent-process theory of emotion
19. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
Bonding
Harry Harlow
frequency distribution
Absolute threshold
20. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
Substance Abuser
variability
Self-efficacy
strain studies
21. 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
top-down processing
Puberty
storage
Extrinsic motivation
22. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions
Embryo
top-down processing
Gibson & Walk
Trichromats
23. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
parathyroid
decay
Myopic
(cerebral) cortex
24. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.
Alfred Adler
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
acetylcholine (ACh)
science
25. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
Anna O.
motivated forgetting
Psychodynamically
aphasia
26. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
William Sheldon
Moro reflex
short-term storage
neurogenesis
27. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
observer bias
thalamus
Psychophysics
Representative sample
28. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.
Photoreceptors
Anal Stage
Standardization
Developmental Psychology
29. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically
zone of proximal development
token economy
neural plasticity
educational psychologist
30. Memory for specific information
aversive conditioning
Superego
declarative memory
William James
31. Developed one of the first projective tests - the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story - the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary
Hermann Rorschach
random sample
Charles Darwin
polygenic inheritance
32. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
Validity
David McClelland
endocrine glands
Anna O.
33. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)
Babinski reflex
Gender stereotype
Jean Piaget
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
34. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues
Consciousness
forensic psychologist
chromosome
Symptom substitution
35. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body
ions
Abraham Maslow
menopause
neuron
36. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
imagery
Reliability
receptor site
Debriefing
37. Transparent covering of the eye
Attachment
psychometrician
Phonology
cornea
38. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement
occipital lobes
(cerebral) cortex
Higher-order Conditioning
timbre
39. 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
dominant genes
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
population
Body Language
40. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones
Factor analysis
Cognitive Psychology
Obedience
retina
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
flashbulb memories
participant
action potential
genetic mapping
42. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.
Social Categorization
mode
Prosocial Behavior
kinesthesis
43. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
developmental psychologist
Psychotherapy
Placebo effect
cornea
44. The brain and spinal cord
Primary Punisher
Extinction (operant conditioning)
central nervous system
Linguistics
45. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)
short-term storage
neural impulse
thyroid gland
Specific phobia
46. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism
Collective Unconscious
state-dependent learning
Adolescence
peripheral nervous system
47. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
sensory adaptation
Bipolar disorder
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Resistance
48. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.
sympathetic nervous system
nature-nurture controversy
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Denial
49. Occurs when recall is better for a distinctive item - even if it occurs in the middle of a list
Major depressive disorder
Client-centered therapy
Saccades
Von Restorff effect
50. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
Stimulus Discrimination
Kenneth Clark
nature
brainstem