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AP Psychology
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1. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe
retrograde amnesia
iris
Francis Galton
myelin sheath
2. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
twin studies
Wilhelm Wundt
Anorexia Nervosa
Concordance rate
3. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
Harry Harlow
frequency
human genomes
anorexia nervosa
4. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.
John Locke
Emotion
Child abuse
eclectic
5. Ability of the visual perceptual system to recognize that an object remains constant in size regardless of its distance from the observer or the size of its image on the retina.
Size constancy
Trait
Paul Ekman
polygenic inheritance
6. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
debriefing
Aristotle
conventional level of moral development
Personality disorders
7. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep
amnesia
Insomnia
psychologist
Homeostasis
8. 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
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Biofeedback
Stressor
Means-ends analysis
9. Memory for specific information
declarative memory
difference threshold
Conditioning
Psychophysics
10. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
implicit memory
Superstitious Behavior
Wolpe
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
11. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
educational psychologist
neuron
Genital Stage
Actor-observer Effect
12. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
sensory memory
William Sheldon
Rationalization
Henry Murray
13. An individual's genetic make-up
normal distribution
Aaron Beck
Stressor
genotype
14. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream
Trichromatic theory
Manifest Content
Bonding
Holmes & Rahe
15. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
Token economy
Gibson & Walk
Depressive disorders
Hobson & McCarley
16. The inability to perceive different hues.
Color Blindness
Major depressive disorder
binocular cues
psychologist
17. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
Noam Chomsky
pupil
iris
independent variable
18. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results
Hyperopic
Gender Schema Theory
self-fulfilling prophecy
psychologist
19. Retrieval cues that match original information work better
Token economy
Rooting reflex
encoding specificity principle
Noam Chomsky
20. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
Coping
Robert Sternberg
Latency Stage
Approach-approach conflict
21. The tendency for one characteristic of an individual to influence a tester's evaluation of other characteristics
Halo effect
Dissociative disorders
Attitudes
Aristotle
22. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses
limbic system
Noam Chomsky
Drive
Conflict
23. Creates a computerized image using x-rays passed through the brain
gonads
Saccades
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Dichromats
24. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Light
pons
psychoanalytic
Algorithm
25. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
all-or-none principle
anorexia nervosa
Placebo effect
cerebellum
26. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
olfaction
observer bias
strain studies
genetic mapping
27. Fixed - overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.
Creativity
double-blind procedure
pseudoscience
Stereotypes
28. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information
retroactive interference
educational psychologist
debriefing
Social Loafing
29. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
schema
Anorexia Nervosa
Benjamin Whorf
Motive
30. Electrically charged particles found both inside and outside a neuron; negative ions are found inside the cell membrane in a polarized neuron
Latency Stage
ions
debriefing
Karen Horney
31. 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
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Prevalence
Equity Theory
32. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
Color Blindness
Langer & Rodin
Object permanence
Experimental design
33. Neurotransmitter that affects sleep - arousal - mood - appetite; lack of it is linked with depression
Psychoactive Drug
serotonin
Benjamin Whorf
Abraham Maslow
34. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent
limbic system
pseudoscience
Projective Tests
Standardization
35. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
Reactance
Formal operational stage
Kenneth Clark
Placebo effect
36. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids
parathormone
visual acuity
aversive conditioning
Substance Abuser
37. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
Personality
Object permanence
pineal gland
Symptom substitution
38. Perspective developed by freud - which assumes that psychological problems are the result of anxiety resulting from unresolved conflicts and forces of which a person might be unaware
Higher-order Conditioning
Logic
Functional fixedness
psychoanalytic
39. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable
Subgoal analysis
Opponent-process theory
operational definition
Major depressive disorder
40. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
natural selection
insulin
kinesthesis
proactive interference
41. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.
occipital lobes
consolidation
Phoneme
Cognitive theories
42. Released by adrenal glands; triggered by norepinephrine to prolong the response to stress (used in the sympathetic nervous system)
Judith Langlois
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Tolerance
Albert Bandura
43. Growth in the ability to tell right from wrong - control impulses - and act ethically
Photoreceptors
Collective Unconscious
moral development
Systematic desensitization
44. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
sports psychologist
Gender stereotype
psychometrician
frontal lobes
45. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Concrete operational stage
unconscious
demand characteristics
46. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
Rape
descriptive statistics
working memory
Social Need
47. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time
Anna O.
Type A behavior
Motivation
Problem Solving
48. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Rooting reflex
Primary Punisher
Higher-order Conditioning
Intelligence
49. 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
Circadian Rhythms
neurotransmitters
Clark Hull
conventional level of moral development
50. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters
axon terminal
Reaction Formation
Howard Gardner
Learning