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AP Psychology
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1. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature
Descriptive Studies
Dementia
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
corpus callosum
2. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
Hermann Rorschach
aptitude test
Expectancy Theories
Insight therapy
3. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
semantic memory
nonconscious
functionalism
pupil
4. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
Unconscious
Functional fixedness
Interpersonal Attraction
Reaction Formation
5. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
rods
polarization
Karl Wernicke
Approach-approach conflict
6. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities
behaviorism
Wechsler intelligence tests
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Kurt Lewin
7. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.
Variable-ratio Schedule
Linguistics
psychiatrist
Prosocial Behavior
8. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
variability
Ernst Weber
Social Loafing
receptor site
9. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
Ivan Pavlov
autonomic nervous system
Spontaneous Recovery
Stimulus Generalization
10. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
postconventional level of moral development
Judith Langlois
Agoraphobia
levels-of-processing approach
11. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
Social Interest
identical twins
hippocampus
Zajonc & Markus
12. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
Tolman
Concrete operational stage
placebo effect
Standardization
13. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
DNA
John Garcia
Fetus
Accommodation
14. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts
Impression Formation
parietal lobes
Howard Gardner
Ernst Weber
15. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
Projective Tests
Percentile score
Decision making
Skinner Box
16. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.
Unconscious
Mediation
Edward Thorndike
humanistic psychology
17. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
sensory neurons
Socrates
Creativity
genetics
18. Graphical record of brain-wave activity obtained through electrodes placed on the scalp and forehead
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Concept
Ex Post Facto Design
Primary Punisher
19. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
Mainstreaming
Theory of mind
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
ESP
20. Holds information for processing; fragile; also called short term memory or working memory
short-term storage
nonconscious
Stimulant
correlation coefficient
21. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
sensory neurons
hindbrain
habituation
schema
22. The view that knowledge should be acquired through observation and often an experiment
empiricism
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Robert Rosenthal
Personality disorders
23. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
pupil
Receptive fields
forebrain
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
24. Period of development from conception until birth
prenatal development
genetics
Mainstreaming
Longitudinal Study
25. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Intimacy
Free association
optic nerve
Need for achievement
26. 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
Ideal Self
Moro reflex
moral development
unconscious
27. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
retroactive interference
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Schizophrenic disorders
Albert Ellis
28. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
acetylcholine (ACh)
binocular cues
population
Variable-interval Schedule
29. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event
myelin sheath
Mary Ainsworth
Personality
retrograde amnesia
30. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
participant
Phonology
menopause
Rationalization
31. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself
Intrinsic motivation
Family therapy
Groupthink
Dissociative disorders
32. 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
Rosenthal & Jacobson
measure of central tendency
Hyperopic
positive psychology
33. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
encoding
unconscious
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Validity
34. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.
Masters & Johnson
Language
association areas
Trichromats
35. Piaget's thrid stage of cognitive development (lasting from approximately age 6 or 7 to age 11 or 12) - during which the child develops the ability to understand constant factors in the environment - rules - and higher-order symbolic systems
Unconscious
Cross-sectional study
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Concrete operational stage
36. The level of consciousness devoted to processes completely unavailable to conscious awareness (e.g. - fingernails growing)
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Hue
Kenneth Clark
nonconscious
37. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.
replication
Critical Period
Unconscious
Specific phobia
38. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
functionalism
Insomnia
axon
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
39. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
natural selection
Erik Erikson
Latent Content
Assimilation
40. A therapy that is based on the application of learning principles to human behavior and that focuses on changing overt behaviors rather than on understanding subjective feelings - unconscious processes - or motivations; also known as behavior modific
Behavior therapy
achievement test
Need for achievement
authoritative parenting
41. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
Fetus
Self-perception Theory
Counterconditioning
monism
42. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Skinner Box
Standard score
Gestalt psychology
43. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness
Self
preconscious
Thanatology
fovea
44. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
Longitudinal Study
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
pseudoscience
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
45. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data
vestibular sense
declarative memory
gate control theory
statistics
46. 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-serving Bias
Variable-ratio Schedule
procedural memory
Self-actualization
47. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus
Conditioned Response
Saturation
memory
Interpretation
48. Small area of retina where image is focused
neurotransmitters
fovea
dualism
Discrimination
49. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
ex post facto study
statistics
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Absolute threshold
50. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
Representative sample
Morpheme
brain
sensory memory