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AP Psychology
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1. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
family studies
agonist
Bulimia Nervosa
interneurons
2. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment
natural selection
Mary Ainsworth
Reactance
Albert Ellis
3. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
receptor site
authoritative parenting
convolutions
Model
4. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
eclectic
Wilhelm Wundt
Archetypes
natural selection
5. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
retroactive interference
Holmes & Rahe
fraternal twins
Optic chiasm
6. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
operational definition
social psychologist
variability
Interpersonal Attraction
7. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
Intimacy
vestibular sense
sensory adaptation
Biofeedback
8. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross
emotional intelligence
Blood-Brain Barrier
Rooting reflex
Schema
9. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
Algorithm
Social Psychology
Archetypes
William Dement
10. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
parallel processing
Preconscious
nurture
achievement test
11. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.
Prevalence
Cognitive Dissonance
Signal Detection Theory
Transduction
12. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups
myelin sheath
sample
Trait
Concordance rate
13. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter
Reactance
Transference
imagery
agonist
14. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
forebrain
selection studies
Psychotherapy
psychobiology
15. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment
Psycholinguistics
Self-efficacy
anterograde amnesia
William James
16. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
Types
Learned helplessness
Gordon Allport
Agoraphobia
17. The prenatal organism from the 5th through the 49th day after conception
Paul Ekman
autonomic nervous system
Embryo
Androgynous
18. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.
authoritarian parenting
Need for achievement
human genomes
Rape
19. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
Emotion
Electromagnetic Radiation
somatic nervous system
Syntax
20. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
Approach-avoidance conflict
Carol Gilligan
naturalistic observation
consolidation
21. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Abnormal psychology
Fundamental Attribution Error
sample
mutation
22. The time in to development of an organism when it is especially sensitive to certain environmental influences; outside of that period the same influences will have far less effect
Representative sample
Socrates
convolutions
Critical Period
23. The brain and spinal cord
central nervous system
forensic psychologist
retrieval
Charles Spearman
24. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all
all-or-none principle
Substance Abuser
Kenneth Clark
Psychoneuroimmunology
25. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
control group
Cross-sectional study
double-blind procedure
fraternal twins
26. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
action potential
recessive gene
Babinski reflex
Anna O.
27. Sharpness of vision
occipital lobes
visual acuity
health psychologist
Positive Reinforcement
28. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response
Extinction (classical conditioning)
psychobiology
Percentile score
Psychoactive Drug
29. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
Elizabeth Loftus
long-term potentiation
EEG (electroencephalogram)
sensory memory
30. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.
Ivan Pavlov
Monochromats
Working through
Concept
31. The biologically based categories of male and female
action potential
Sex
Adolescence
Secondary Reinforcer
32. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors
replication
theory
amygdala
Self-efficacy
33. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.
Libido
Dissociative disorders
William Dement
confounding variable
34. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism
Grasping reflex
inhibitory neurotransmitter
pupil
Primary Punisher
35. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions
Aristotle
Schema
somatic nervous system
primacy effect
36. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.
DNA
participant
Social Psychology
population
37. Theory that holds that an observer's perception depends not only on the intensity of a stimulus but also on the observer's motivation - the criteria he or she sets for determining that a signal is present - and on the background noise.
Signal Detection Theory
Extinction (operant conditioning)
structuralism
William James
38. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
Noam Chomsky
aptitude test
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Divergent thinking
39. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
Token economy
rehearsal
psychology
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
40. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
Law of Effect
Charles Spearman
binocular cues
hindbrain
41. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships
Gordon Allport
Ageism
Social Need
agonist
42. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.
Percentile score
refractory period
Langer & Rodin
Creativity
43. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative
family studies
Higher-order Conditioning
Tolman
Heuristics
44. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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45. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization
positive psychology
polarization
Judith Langlois
monism
46. 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.
Lawrence Kohlberg
parietal lobes
John B Watson
Reactance
47. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
Primary Punisher
Aaron Beck
Social Facilitation
Carl Jung
48. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
Francis Galton
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Rational-emotive therapy
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
49. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
Humanistic theory
Descriptive Studies
Conservation
efferent neuron nerve
50. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
pupil
Psychophysics
Sucking reflex
audition