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AP Psychology
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1. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
split brain patients
Drive
Stressor
Bulimia Nervosa
2. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
synapse
Displacement
binocular cues
forensic psychologist
3. Synaptic gap or synaptic space; tiny gap between the terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron (almost never touch); location of the transfer of an impulse from one neuron to the next
long-term memory
synaptic cleft
independent variable
Systematic desensitization
4. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose
response bias
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Alfred Adler
Displacement
5. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.
Prosocial Behavior
Lewis Terman
Stimulus Discrimination
Unconditioned Stimulus
6. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants
Gibson & Walk
behavior
hypnosis
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
7. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
axon
Fulfillment
antagonist
Naturalistic observation
8. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Assessment
hypnosis
Carol Gilligan
Law of Effect
9. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
amnesia
Carl Jung
Lewis Terman
industrial/organizational psychologist
10. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
semantic memory
Self-serving Bias
sensory memory
Reaction Formation
11. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
pons
Groupthink
Fixed-ratio Schedule
control group
12. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints
corpus callosum
Decentration
Solomon Asch
Gender Identity
13. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
Personal Fable
encoding
Morpheme
conventional level of moral development
14. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
Orgasm phase
Mary Ainsworth
Hyperopic
Anxiety
15. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
Psychosurgery
Excitement phase
Heritability
Stanley Schachter
16. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening
Creativity
Prevalence
Assimilation
Lucid Dream
17. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites
Dissociative identity disorder
synapse
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Dichromats
18. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival
pseudoscience
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Grasping reflex
Ekman & Friesen
19. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings
cones
Punishment
iris
psychologist
20. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them
empiricism
motivated forgetting
sound localization
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
21. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
Circadian Rhythms
sociocultural psychology
Light
Fundamental Attribution Error
22. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Behavior therapy
Primary Reinforcer
authoritative parenting
23. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic
top-down processing
Adolescence
Aaron Beck
Formal operational stage
24. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable
confounding variable
Heuristics
set point
action potential
25. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
difference threshold
pons
elaborative rehearsal
Phoneme
26. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.
school psychologist
gustation
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Androgynous
27. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Client-centered therapy
efferent neuron nerve
Id
Psychophysics
28. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment
William James
kinesthesis
endorphins
aptitude test
29. 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
educational psychologist
David Rosenhan
Placenta
Double bind
30. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.
Transference
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
mean
Phillip Zimbardo
31. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
Observational Learning Theory
Longitudinal Study
epinephrine
Paul Ekman
32. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat
Cognitive Psychology
John B Watson
Id
Substance Abuser
33. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
Konrad Lorenz
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Social Categorization
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
34. Memory for specific information
John B Watson
Saccades
declarative memory
Harry Stack Sullivan
35. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life
psychoanalyst
normal distribution
Lewis Terman
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
36. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
rehearsal
polarization
Double-blind techniques
Delusions
37. Intelligence and learning - self-fulfilling prophecy; Study Basics: Researchers misled teachers into believing that certain students had higher IQs. Teachers changed own behaviors and effectively raised the IQ of the randomly chosen students
serotonin
Rosenthal & Jacobson
strain studies
sensory adaptation
38. A trait or inherited characteristic that has increased in a population because it solved a problem of survival or reproduction
Rosenhan
adaptation
Type A behavior
Receptive fields
39. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
sensory memory
Intimacy
measure of central tendency
educational psychologist
40. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
dendrites
Drug
Zygote
Homeostasis
41. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards
token economy
Model
selection studies
Need for achievement
42. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
Stress
educational psychologist
hypothesis
Expectancy Theories
43. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
Darley & Latane
Abnormal Behavior
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Anxiety
44. 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
psychobiology
Carol Gilligan
fraternal twins
representative sample
45. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning
temporal lobes
Phineas Gage
replication
correlation coefficient
46. An observable action
Size constancy
synaptic cleft
brainstem
behavior
47. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
Prevalence
rehearsal
Carl Rogers
Archetypes
48. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Discrimination
Dissociative amnesia
Light
Motivation
49. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Latency Stage
Reflex
Wilhelm Wundt
50. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
hippocampus
Divergent thinking
encoding
memory