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AP Psychology
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1. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
Archetypes
Object permanence
Stimulant
Ivan Pavlov
2. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Metal retardation
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Robert Rosenthal
axon
3. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
hindbrain
procedural memory
cones
Positive Reinforcement
4. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities
Kurt Lewin
Superstitious Behavior
Semantics
schema
5. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Psychosurgery
rods
Saturation
6. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
maintenance rehearsal
Raymond Cattell
Residual type of schizophrenia
correlational research
7. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
Noam Chomsky
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Psychodynamically
Wilhelm Wundt
8. Top of the spinal column
brainstem
Howard Gardner
pseudoscience
Albert Bandura
9. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.
Sociobiology
Absolute threshold
frontal lobes
Prejudice
10. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Intelligence
Konrad Lorenz
authoritarian parenting
Premack principle
11. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
psychobiology
Secondary Reinforcer
anterograde amnesia
human genomes
12. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
preconscious
Libido
Agoraphobia
zone of proximal development
13. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
Gender Schema Theory
Normal curve
Descriptive Studies
Hobson & McCarley
14. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
inhibitory neurotransmitter
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
control group
Trait
15. A need or want that causes someone to act
motive
neuron
Color Blindness
Mainstreaming
16. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
parasympathetic nervous system
measure of central tendency
descriptive statistics
functional MRI (fMRI)
17. Does research on how people function best with machines
B.F. Skinner
engineering psychologist
elaborative rehearsal
memory span
18. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically
olfaction
eclectic
neural plasticity
insulin
19. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
Impression Formation
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Opponent-process theory
Albert Bandura
20. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
proactive interference
nature-nurture controversy
Motive
21. 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.
operational definition
Mediation
Wernicke's area
cornea
22. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
Survey
mean
Clark Hull
statistics
23. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it
Type A behavior
Reinforcer
Fundamental Attribution Error
Ivan Pavlov
24. The brain and spinal cord
central nervous system
gate control theory
Trait
Broca's area
25. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
motor neurons
Abraham Maslow
selection studies
Representative sample
26. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.
Phobic disorders
encoding
Social phobia
Semantics
27. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle
Antisocial personality disorder
Coping
Moro reflex
Anna Freud
28. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
median
hypothalamus
Superstitious Behavior
hindbrain
29. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence
rods
norepinephrine
Edward Thorndike
refractory period
30. Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation - they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.
Oral Stage
Generalized anxiety disorder
John Garcia
Hans Eysenck
31. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
gustation
memory span
frontal lobes
participant
32. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Psychophysics
Morpheme
Longitudinal Study
mean
33. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh
Fixed-interval Schedule
Circadian Rhythms
Reliability
bottom-up processing
34. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
Obedience
Self-efficacy
Attributions
Dependence
35. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
Fundamental Attribution Error
temporal lobes
Erik Erikson
Gordon Allport
36. The situation that occurs when the drug becomes part of the body's functioning and produces withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued
Dependence
Resolution Phase
Conflict
Creativity
37. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Fixed-interval Schedule
Konrad Lorenz
Case study
Child abuse
38. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
Genital Stage
Plateau phase
Homeostasis
zone of proximal development
39. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
implicit memory
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
psychoanalyst
pineal gland
40. 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.
Darley & Latane
Mary Ainsworth
Charles Darwin
Family therapy
41. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Interpersonal Attraction
Darley & Latane
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Social Cognition
42. 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
John Garcia
Albert Bandura
Fulfillment
Substance Abuser
43. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment
peripheral nervous system
psychology
Extrinsic motivation
Phoneme
44. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume
behavioral genetics
Nonverbal Communication
Abnormal psychology
Conservation
45. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
Light
Stimulus Generalization
Elaboration Likelihood Model
authoritarian parenting
46. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Robert Zajonc
excitatory neurotransmitter
genotype
47. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
demand characteristics
naturalistic observation
axon
clinical psychologist
48. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher
Resolution Phase
percentile score
Secondary Punisher
Reactance
49. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts
parietal lobes
Discrimination
Kenneth Clark
Fixed-ratio Schedule
50. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Primary Reinforcer
sports psychologist
transfer appropriate processing