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AP Psychology
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1. Memory; studied memorization of meaningless words
Hermann Ebbinghaus
human genomes
decay
independent variable
2. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
sample
psychoanalyst
Concept
Leon Festinger
3. Deals with the extent to which heredity and the environment each influence behavior
dualism
norepinephrine
nature-nurture controversy
just noticeable difference (JND)
4. Emotional intelligence
Daniel Goleman
audition
science
levels-of-processing approach
5. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening
excitatory neurotransmitter
blind spot
adrenal glands
Lucid Dream
6. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters
Decision making
opponent-process theory of emotion
axon terminal
Social Need
7. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
Personality disorders
Client-centered therapy
behavioral genetics
set point
8. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
encoding specificity principle
Decision making
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
unconscious
9. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.
Aversive counterconditioning
Substance Abuser
Sociobiology
Trichromatic theory
10. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving
Self-actualization
natural selection
Algorithm
neuroscience
11. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
Deviation IQ
standard deviation
David McClelland
Self-fulfilling prophecy
12. Sets of strategies - rather than strict rules - that act as guidelines for discovery-oriented problem solving.
graded potential
Prototype
Heuristics
Gestalt psychology
13. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
proactive interference
Body Language
fovea
Fixed-ratio Schedule
14. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
correlational research
Shaping
behaviorism
educational psychologist
15. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
pituitary gland
Conditioned Stimulus
Representative sample
memory span
16. Body sense of equilibrium and balance
Psychotherapy
pituitary gland
Sucking reflex
vestibular sense
17. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
Broca's area
habituation
Equity Theory
myelin sheath
18. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
cochlea
Transference
Law of Effect
Bystander Effect
19. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
convolutions
cerebellum
David Rosenhan
Intrinsic motivation
20. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and longstanding maladaptive behaviors that typically cause stress and/or social or occupational problems.
Longitudinal Study
Personality disorders
Fetus
Withdrawal Symptoms
21. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
Noam Chomsky
unconscious
Model
Bonding
22. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease
Egocentrism
midbrain
Family therapy
Psychoneuroimmunology
23. Elements of an experimental situation that might cause a participant to perceive the situation in a certain way or become aware of the purpose of the study and thus bias the participant to behave in a certain way - and in so doing - distort results.
educational psychologist
axon terminal
Demand characteristics
family studies
24. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence
Monochromats
Deindividuation
measure of central tendency
Edward Thorndike
25. 17th century English philosopher. Wrote that the mind was a 'blank slate' or 'tabula rasa'; that is - people are born without innate ideas. We are completely shaped by our environment .
photoreceptors
Variable-interval Schedule
John Locke
population
26. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
pons
functional MRI (fMRI)
pituitary gland
neuropsychologist
27. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state
Resolution Phase
Francis Galton
William James
Rosenthal & Jacobson
28. The expression of genes
response bias
phenotype
vestibular sense
Noam Chomsky
29. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
debriefing
Type B behavior
Standardization
semantic memory
30. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
selective attention
Homeostasis
engineering psychologist
nonconscious
31. Visual theory - proposed by Herring - that color is coded by stimulation of three types of paired receptors; each pair of receptors is assumed to operate in an antagonist way so that stimulation by a given wavelength produces excitation (increased fi
Standard score
synaptic vesicles
introspection
Opponent-process theory
32. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ
retroactive interference
Time-out
Gestalt psychology
Cross-sectional Studies
33. Does research on how people function best with machines
Secondary Punisher
preconscious
engineering psychologist
Hue
34. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Reliability
memory span
Extinction (classical conditioning)
35. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
Alzheimer's Disease
Self-perception Theory
recessive gene
Conditioned Stimulus
36. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
Herman von Helmholtz
Divergent thinking
experiment
Genital Stage
37. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.
normal distribution
axon terminal
Ageism
Denial
38. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body
Carl Rogers
Imaginary Audience
neuron
Embryo
39. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.
Heuristics
Learned helplessness
ESP
Circadian Rhythms
40. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit
Dissociative identity disorder
Hermann Ebbinghaus
cochlea
Variable-interval Schedule
41. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
Von Restorff effect
functionalism
Collective Unconscious
Health psychology
42. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
Humanistic theory
schema
Albert Ellis
Babinski reflex
43. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
Androgynous
Elizabeth Loftus
Saturation
Stress
44. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles
Phillip Zimbardo
Metal retardation
Langer & Rodin
Formal operational stage
45. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Impression Formation
association areas
Hobson & McCarley
46. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
Morality
Benjamin Whorf
Temperament
Robert Yerkes
47. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works
functionalism
triarchic theory of intelligence
Fundamental Attribution Error
Karl Wernicke
48. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
instinct
Case study
parathormone
motor projection areas
49. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress
Generalized anxiety disorder
Henry Murray
Holmes & Rahe
sensory memory
50. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.
Reactance
Saccades
Elizabeth Loftus
forebrain