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AP Psychology
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1. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never
Sex
Rosenhan
Reflex
Preconscious
2. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
Emotion
population
endorphins
Temperament
3. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Burnout
Langer & Rodin
behavioral genetics
participant
4. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged
Dream
ethnocentrism
endocrine system
Phineas Gage
5. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords
binocular cues
axon terminal
Unconditioned Stimulus
sensory neurons
6. The process by which the location of sound is determined
sound localization
Social Facilitation
Type B behavior
long-term potentiation
7. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons
retrograde amnesia
debriefing
afferent neuron nerve
psychometrician
8. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking
Phillip Zimbardo
David McClelland
cognitive psychology
Latency Stage
9. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm
Intimacy
Cognitive theories
placebo effect
Plateau phase
10. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Collective Unconscious
Means-ends analysis
Double-blind techniques
triarchic theory of intelligence
11. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
cerebellum
psychoanalyst
hindbrain
Rationalization
12. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
Altruism
sensory adaptation
antagonist
debriefing
13. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
Subliminal perception
introspection
range
sociocultural psychology
14. Inability to understand or use language
aphasia
Oedipus Complex
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
descriptive statistics
15. Electrically charged particles found both inside and outside a neuron; negative ions are found inside the cell membrane in a polarized neuron
ions
James-Lange theory of emotion
bottom-up processing
long-term memory
16. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
survey research
Altruism
Fixation
binocular cues
17. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Rape
Client-centered therapy
18. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
Paul Ekman
Descriptive Studies
insulin
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
19. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.
Hue
Language
Gender stereotype
gate control theory
20. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.
Repression
photoreceptors
Depressive disorders
Hermann Ebbinghaus
21. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.
Unconscious
Intelligence
episodic memory
Reflex
22. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)
Langer & Rodin
Dissociative identity disorder
Skinner Box
blind spot
23. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response
Projection
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Lev Vygotsky
flashbulb memories
24. According to Piaget - the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences
Lucid Dream
Accommodation
cochlea
achievement test
25. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
neurogenesis
hippocampus
parathormone
ESP
26. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
implicit memory
forebrain
temporal lobes
genetics
27. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
Sociobiology
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Expectancy Theories
Psychotherapy
28. Sense of taste
Psychodynamically
Elizabeth Loftus
gustation
storage
29. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception
epinephrine
Dissociative identity disorder
Collective Unconscious
bottom-up processing
30. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
acetylcholine (ACh)
rehearsal
parallel processing
Saccades
31. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
Cognitive theories
Aristotle
Prejudice
Social Cognition
32. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
thyroxine
Psycholinguistics
Dream
René Descartes
33. Establish the relationship between two variables
behavioral genetics
correlational research
excitatory neurotransmitter
Group
34. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
interneurons
Grasping reflex
Carl Jung
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
35. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
dendrites
audition
Validity
motivated forgetting
36. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
schema
Harry Stack Sullivan
Formal operational stage
Gestalt psychology
37. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
Social Facilitation
Prejudice
phenotype
Harry Stack Sullivan
38. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
temporal lobes
Brightness
Saccades
Broca's area
39. The extent to which scores differ from one another
Psychotic
menopause
Shaping
variability
40. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'
interference
Dependence
thalamus
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
41. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
dualism
John Locke
Punishment
Id
42. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable
operational definition
Naturalistic observation
pitch
Orgasm phase
43. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
Kurt Lewin
Attachment
Positive Reinforcement
genetic mapping
44. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Psychophysics
Need for achievement
lens
retroactive interference
45. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
Reliability
imagery
Positive Reinforcement
achievement test
46. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
insulin
Halo effect
instinct
genetics
47. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
Ivan Pavlov
Child abuse
Elizabeth Loftus
response bias
48. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information
heritability
Kenneth Clark
memory
aptitude test
49. A test score that has not been transformed or converted in any way
Ernst Weber
Raw score
Norms
neural plasticity
50. A fertilized egg
Generalized anxiety disorder
Thanatology
Unconditioned Stimulus
Zygote