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AP Psychology
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1. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.
Problem Solving
confounding variable
Unconscious
Hue
2. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
bottom-up processing
descriptive statistics
Double-blind techniques
ethics
3. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8
Carl Jung
triarchic theory of intelligence
Metal retardation
Lewis Terman
4. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
sensory memory
ex post facto study
Manifest Content
maintenance rehearsal
5. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
amnesia
Higher-order Conditioning
Defense Mechanism
Social phobia
6. A state of consciousness that occurs during sleep - usually accompanied by vivid visual - tactile - or auditory imagery.
Dream
chromosome
Functional fixedness
bulimia nervosa
7. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
interference
Schema
Assessment
Teratogen
8. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
schema
selection studies
Clark Hull
Intimacy
9. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
correlation coefficient
Backward search
Robert Rosenthal
timbre
10. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.
Prejudice
transfer appropriate processing
Conditioning
genetic mapping
11. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
Benjamin Whorf
hypothesis
sample
Wechsler intelligence tests
12. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.
Concept
Phonology
inferential statistics
Egocentrism
13. A person's sense of being male or female
Gender Identity
Linguistics
Howard Gardner
sports psychologist
14. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.
flashbulb memories
Schizophrenic disorders
descriptive statistics
Specific phobia
15. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.
Phobic disorders
Conformity
Wernicke's area
long-term potentiation
16. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
nonconscious
measure of central tendency
Learned Helplessness
episodic memory
17. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
Superstitious Behavior
Motive
binocular cues
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
18. A process through which people receive information about the status of a physical system and use this feedback information to learn to control the activity of that system
peripheral nervous system
Biofeedback
Reasoning
Decentration
19. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
Mary Cover-Jones
synapse
Benjamin Whorf
Gender
20. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Behavior therapy
Alfred Binet
norepinephrine
Konrad Lorenz
21. 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
moral development
Sensorimotor stage
polarization
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
22. Memory for specific information
declarative memory
Dream analysis
Self-efficacy
hippocampus
23. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
Type A behavior
behavioral genetics
mean
Social phobia
24. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Sensation
Rosenhan
central nervous system
Little Albert
25. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
occipital lobes
Tolman
Deindividuation
Perception
26. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
neuron
percentile score
mode
normal distribution
27. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness
sympathetic nervous system
human genomes
preconscious
psychometrician
28. A mass of tissue that is attached to the wall f the uterus and connected to the developing fetus by the umbilical cord; it supplies nutrients and eliminates waste products
Placenta
Morpheme
Ideal Self
DNA
29. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness
Collective Unconscious
Martin Seligman
midbrain
insulin
30. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching
Negative Reinforcement
elaborative rehearsal
Imaginary Audience
Heuristics
31. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
Punishment
Approach-avoidance conflict
Heritability
Reaction Formation
32. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions
Major depressive disorder
Carl Rogers
forebrain
hormone
33. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
Ego
acetylcholine (ACh)
Displacement
set point
34. The human need to fulfill one's potential
placebo
Obedience
Approach-approach conflict
self-actualization
35. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep
statistics
Insomnia
afferent neuron nerve
Solomon Asch
36. 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
Reactance
Grasping reflex
action potential
peripheral nervous system
37. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -
Self-actualization
hypothalamus
percentile score
Aaron Beck
38. Body sense of equilibrium and balance
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
motor neurons
vestibular sense
Carol Gilligan
39. The biologically based categories of male and female
Elaboration Likelihood Model
aptitude test
Sex
dependent variable
40. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
dependent variable
convolutions
Assessment
Stimulus Discrimination
41. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
Convergent thinking
variability
storage
nonconscious
42. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
mutation
psychologist
Gender Identity
rehearsal
43. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
Abnormal Behavior
autonomic nervous system
Resistance
Anal Stage
44. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions
emotional intelligence
Convergent thinking
Semantics
nurture
45. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
anorexia nervosa
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
flashbulb memories
acetylcholine (ACh)
46. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
instinct
Preconscious
corpus callosum
Rosenthal & Jacobson
47. 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
observer bias
Collective Unconscious
token economy
acetylcholine (ACh)
48. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.
Personality disorders
Leon Festinger
Orgasm phase
Prototype
49. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Intelligence
Light
genotype
Charles Darwin
50. The sense of hearing
dopamine
retina
Phobic disorders
audition