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AP Psychology
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1. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.
Child abuse
Learned helplessness
Hans Eysenck
fovea
2. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
neuropsychologist
Psychotic
Phoneme
3. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose
response bias
Equity Theory
Id
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
4. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher
Mediation
cones
Reliability
significant difference
5. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
significant difference
Self
ex post facto study
Visual cortex
6. 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
graded potential
Temperament
endorphins
7. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
nurture
psychoanalyst
endocrine system
Group therapy
8. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.
Hobson & McCarley
token economy
Types
Cognitive Psychology
9. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
positive psychology
Monochromats
mode
Reliability
10. Neurotransmitter that inhibits firing of neurons; linked with Huntington's disease
nervous system
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Social Facilitation
Phoneme
11. 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.
Stereotypes
corpus callosum
Family therapy
episodic memory
12. Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.
Mediation
Syntax
Aggression
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
13. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
Factor analysis
Type B behavior
moral development
maintenance rehearsal
14. Pioneer in intelligence (IQ) tests - designed a test to identify slow learners in need of help-not applicable in the U.S. because it was too culture-bound (French)
Rosenthal & Jacobson
pupil
Alfred Binet
Gestalt psychology
15. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
ex post facto study
Depressive disorders
Reinforcer
Darley & Latane
16. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
Martin Seligman
Expectancy Theories
experimenter bias
family studies
17. A process through which people receive information about the status of a physical system and use this feedback information to learn to control the activity of that system
Biofeedback
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
population
Concrete operational stage
18. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation
Preconscious
Standard score
glial cells
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
19. 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
Attributions
Reaction Formation
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
20. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
Bulimia Nervosa
Electromagnetic Radiation
transfer appropriate processing
Phineas Gage
21. Neurotransmitter that affects sleep - arousal - mood - appetite; lack of it is linked with depression
serotonin
Syntax
aversive conditioning
Electromagnetic Radiation
22. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.
identical twins
participant
Linguistics
Interpersonal Attraction
23. Developed one of the first projective tests - the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story - the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary
psychometrician
demand characteristics
Hermann Rorschach
Self-fulfilling prophecy
24. 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
Moro reflex
Subliminal perception
Circadian Rhythms
Residual type of schizophrenia
25. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response
Mainstreaming
Systematic desensitization
Generalized anxiety disorder
Extinction (classical conditioning)
26. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
Anna Freud
Heritability
neurogenesis
Dream analysis
27. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Double-blind techniques
recessive gene
mean
Judith Langlois
28. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
Consciousness
replication
Antisocial personality disorder
significant difference
29. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)
blind spot
state-dependent learning
instinct
Dichromats
30. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
Psychosurgery
Resolution Phase
median
Morality
31. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
Tolerance
school psychologist
anterograde amnesia
Social Facilitation
32. Devised theory of multiple intelligences: logical-mathematic - spatial - bodily-kinesthetic - intrapersonal - linguistic - musical - interpersonal - naturalistic
Morpheme
Free association
Howard Gardner
motivated forgetting
33. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.
aphasia
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
menopause
Conformity
34. The expression of genes
Formal operational stage
human genomes
Archetypes
phenotype
35. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants
Socrates
Self-fulfilling prophecy
replication
gustation
36. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
observer bias
Prototype
Types
37. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.
Arousal
Rooting reflex
Visual cortex
parietal lobes
38. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives
introspection
split brain patients
Grammar
Approach-approach conflict
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.
Learned helplessness
central nervous system
mutation
Light
40. An explanation of behavior that emphasizes the entirety of life rather than individual components of behavior and focuses on human dignity - individual choice - and self-worth
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Humanistic theory
frequency
Clark Hull
41. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
parallel processing
ex post facto study
achievement test
myelin sheath
42. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.
thyroxine
Working through
interneurons
Ekman & Friesen
43. Establish the relationship between two variables
Aversive counterconditioning
correlational research
replication
retroactive interference
44. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
Classical Conditioning
Assessment
Coping
dopamine
45. A donut ring-shaped of loosely connected structures located in the forebrain between the central core and cerebral hemispheres; consists of: septum - cingulate gyrus - endowments - hypothalamus - and to campus - and amygdala; associated with emotions
postconventional level of moral development
limbic system
Depressive disorders
Group therapy
46. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population
Stanley Schachter
Francis Galton
Carl Rogers
Heritability
47. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment
Moro reflex
self-fulfilling prophecy
Biofeedback
Bulimia Nervosa
48. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste
Imaginary Audience
Anna Freud
glial cells
Zygote
49. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
difference threshold
Agoraphobia
Langer & Rodin
Color Blindness
50. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
Alfred Adler
strain studies
Equity Theory
humanistic psychology