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AP Psychology
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1. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
Reliability
Token economy
Karl Wernicke
dependent variable
2. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand
aptitude test
Critical Period
Concept
Grasping reflex
3. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Substance Abuser
Bulimia Nervosa
self-actualization
Bipolar disorder
4. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.
Variable-interval Schedule
Reflex
Superego
Trichromats
5. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
Darley & Latane
Experimental design
Masters & Johnson
Withdrawal Symptoms
6. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
percentile score
thyroid gland
authoritative parenting
Phonology
7. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings
Deviation IQ
difference threshold
sociocultural psychology
psychologist
8. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones
retina
acetylcholine (ACh)
Self
Electromagnetic Radiation
9. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.
Types
Nonverbal Communication
Syntax
Cognitive theories
10. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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11. 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
human genomes
Heritability
Deviation IQ
Carol Gilligan
12. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants
Ex Post Facto Design
Gibson & Walk
Dependence
Prejudice
13. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
Cross-sectional Studies
ex post facto study
anterograde amnesia
engineering psychologist
14. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
Optic chiasm
Wolpe
Resolution Phase
difference threshold
15. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement
Aggression
Ex Post Facto Design
Secondary Reinforcer
experiment
16. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
Group therapy
blind spot
Psychotherapy
Dream
17. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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18. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age
Carl Jung
Attachment
fluid intelligence
resting potential
19. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
psychologist
Little Albert
explicit memory
Sex
20. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
Vasocongestion
identical twins
Darley & Latane
Linguistics
21. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
Orgasm phase
Unconditioned Stimulus
empiricism
Aristotle
22. Sense of smell
visual acuity
olfaction
Sucking reflex
Bulimia Nervosa
23. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
normal distribution
anterograde amnesia
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Types
24. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
Equity Theory
neuroscience
lens
Appraisal
25. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
ex post facto study
Ex Post Facto Design
rods
Social Categorization
26. Primary area for processing visual information
Need
Dissociative identity disorder
human genomes
occipital lobes
27. 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
nurture
Unconditioned Stimulus
Rosenhan
Concordance rate
28. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.
Variable-ratio Schedule
aversive conditioning
retrieval
Hue
29. Memory for specific information
declarative memory
Bonding
Brightness
token economy
30. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation
Stress
Agoraphobia
Standard score
Mediation
31. Areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions - rather - they are involved in higher mental processes such as thinking - planning - and communicating
token economy
Mediation
association areas
Negative Reinforcement
32. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable
Lev Vygotsky
confounding variable
Temperament
Social Influence
33. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
adrenal glands
Panic Attack
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
pupil
34. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.
Insight therapy
Brightness
standard deviation
replication
35. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Validity
Little Albert
forensic psychologist
school psychologist
36. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
rods
Brainstorming
Conditioned Stimulus
procedural memory
37. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
experiment
polarization
endorphins
representative sample
38. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
representative sample
long-term memory
receptor site
Edward Bradford Titchener
39. An environmental stimulus that affects an organism in physically or psychologically injurious ways - usually producing anxiety - tension - and physiological arousal
amnesia
Behavior therapy
Self-perception Theory
Stressor
40. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
dependent variable
Interpersonal Attraction
population
Standardization
41. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain
Stimulus Discrimination
glial cells
gate control theory
binocular cues
42. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives
endocrine glands
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Bulimia Nervosa
neuropsychologist
43. 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)
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
nerve
pineal gland
Attributions
44. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
motor neurons
primacy effect
aptitude test
debriefing
45. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
Standardization
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Personal Fable
inferential statistics
46. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.
Saccades
Assimilation
Oedipus Complex
semantic memory
47. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research
Lev Vygotsky
Aversive counterconditioning
ions
primacy effect
48. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.
Placenta
somatic nervous system
Intimacy
sports psychologist
49. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they believe they are so special and unique that other people cannot understand them and risky behaviors will not harm them
Systematic desensitization
Personal Fable
Morality
insulin
50. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates
Clark Hull
Higher-order Conditioning
Stanley Milgram
Phillip Zimbardo