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AP Psychology
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1. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
procedural memory
Electromagnetic Radiation
sensory neurons
2. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
Decision making
prenatal development
consolidation
monism
3. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
refractory period
Reactance
Insomnia
Vulnerability
4. The expression of genes
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Collective Unconscious
motivated forgetting
phenotype
5. Sets of strategies - rather than strict rules - that act as guidelines for discovery-oriented problem solving.
Heuristics
Egocentrism
functionalism
brain
6. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Carl Rogers
Delusions
Bulimia Nervosa
educational psychologist
7. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.
Karl Wernicke
Conflict
Reaction Formation
Prejudice
8. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions
correlational research
association areas
top-down processing
neuropsychologist
9. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
Convergent thinking
polarization
Attitudes
Descriptive Studies
10. False beliefs that are inconsistent with reality but are held in spite of evidence that disproves them.
Howard Gardner
Grammar
Delusions
Concrete operational stage
11. Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information - usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.
Approach-avoidance conflict
state-dependent learning
standard deviation
Dissociative amnesia
12. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
Temperament
refractory period
Conditioned Stimulus
efferent neuron nerve
13. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
interneurons
Anna Freud
Cognitive Psychology
14. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
ex post facto study
naturalistic observation
Excitement phase
Kurt Lewin
15. 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.
Placebo effect
Case study
ESP
synapse
16. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
adaptation
human genomes
Attitudes
Myopic
17. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics
nonconscious
control group
Primary Reinforcer
representative sample
18. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.
Prevalence
mean
Paul Ekman
Carl Jung
19. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
Conditioning
(cerebral) cortex
Holmes & Rahe
Saccades
20. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival
gustation
Stimulus Generalization
Negative Reinforcement
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
21. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Anxiety
Tolman
Langer & Rodin
Aristotle
22. The study of the lifelong - often age-related - processes of change in the physical - cognitive - moral - emotional - and social domains of functioning; such changes are rooted in biological mechanisms that are genetically controlled - as well as in
Developmental Psychology
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
anterograde amnesia
clinical psychologist
23. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
Androgynous
Regression
Grammar
Grasping reflex
24. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits
gene
Blood-Brain Barrier
Trichromats
Interpersonal Attraction
25. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
functional MRI (fMRI)
Accommodation
hippocampus
Edward Bradford Titchener
26. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
strain studies
Raw score
preconventional level of moral development
Gender Schema Theory
27. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
Karl Wernicke
Paul Ekman
Tolerance
Higher-order Conditioning
28. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat
thyroxine
temporal lobes
Generalized anxiety disorder
Naturalistic observation
29. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.
fluid intelligence
health psychologist
Denial
Dream
30. Intelligence; found that specific mental talents were highly correlated - concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled 'g' (general ability)
Transduction
Charles Spearman
Extinction (operant conditioning)
convolutions
31. The evaluation of the significance of a situation or event as it relates to a person's well-being
interference
Tolman
Appraisal
difference threshold
32. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'
Masters & Johnson
observer bias
normal distribution
Erik Erikson
33. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning
Phineas Gage
psychology
unconscious
Working through
34. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.
Rape
Specific phobia
Aristotle
Bulimia Nervosa
35. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.
Means-ends analysis
Reasoning
Attachment
Ideal Self
36. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged
ions
ethnocentrism
Puberty
Alfred Adler
37. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.
Monochromats
Hyperopic
Social Categorization
Sex
38. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
Psychoneuroimmunology
Secondary Reinforcer
Descriptive Studies
Socrates
39. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
Dream analysis
response bias
Libido
excitatory neurotransmitter
40. Netlike system of neurons that weaves through limbic system and plays an important role in attention - arousal - and alert functions; arouses and alerts higher parts of the brain; anesthetics work by temporary shutting off RF system
Babinski reflex
dualism
René Descartes
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
41. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
range
Self-actualization
Optic chiasm
Survey
42. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement
experiment
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Carol Gilligan
Reliability
43. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands
axon
Lucid Dream
motive
William Dement
44. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
Ageism
Longitudinal Study
Electromagnetic Radiation
Nonverbal Communication
45. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
Concrete operational stage
Holmes & Rahe
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Psychoactive Drug
46. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.
Symptom substitution
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Psychoneuroimmunology
Variable-ratio Schedule
47. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad
genotype
triarchic theory of intelligence
Phillip Zimbardo
Morality
48. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
John B Watson
representative sample
Superego
Validity
49. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.
sociocultural psychology
ethnocentrism
Systematic desensitization
Grasping reflex
50. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
Interpersonal Attraction
sports psychologist
long-term memory
ex post facto study