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AP Psychology
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1. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
Holmes & Rahe
Charles Spearman
Attributions
Validity
2. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
Wilhelm Wundt
decay
episodic memory
range
3. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
procedural memory
Sociobiology
Bonding
parasympathetic nervous system
4. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches
eclectic
short-term storage
Conformity
Self-efficacy
5. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
binocular cues
adrenal glands
ethnocentrism
Impression Formation
6. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions
Stanley Milgram
Perception
Preconscious
Overjustification effect
7. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
Motivation
Hobson & McCarley
school psychologist
Insomnia
8. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal
Observational Learning Theory
James-Lange theory of emotion
hypothesis
Raw score
9. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood
Stimulant
parathyroid
debriefing
Masters & Johnson
10. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment
Biofeedback
Mary Ainsworth
monocular cues
amnesia
11. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
Trait
theory
acetylcholine (ACh)
preconventional level of moral development
12. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood
Zajonc & Markus
cornea
Puberty
Dream analysis
13. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
habituation
Halo effect
Androgynous
Ego
14. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.
Superego
Transference
endorphins
Dark adaptation
15. Pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning) - stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls - children mimicked play
Albert Bandura
Formal operational stage
Shaping
Stress
16. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose
Grammar
response bias
Assimilation
Social Facilitation
17. 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
Gestalt psychology
Group Polarization
twin studies
18. An insight therapy - developed be Carl Rogers - that seeks to help people evaluate the world and themselves from their own perspective by providing them with a nondirective environment and unconditional positive regard; also known as person-centered
Kurt Lewin
Client-centered therapy
interference
Hobson & McCarley
19. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance
Robert Yerkes
Anna O.
Kenneth Clark
Survey
20. 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)
psychology
Androgynous
parallel processing
Alfred Binet
21. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Displacement
observer bias
parathormone
22. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law
Observational Learning Theory
Dream
Abnormal Behavior
Ernst Weber
23. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
brainstem
Plateau phase
neurogenesis
24. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
Hans Eysenck
neuropsychologist
functionalism
pitch
25. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
Longitudinal Study
Social Influence
Concrete operational stage
Rosenthal & Jacobson
26. Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people - ideas - or objects that are based on a person's past experiences - shape his or her future behavior - and are evaluative in nature.
Attitudes
menarche
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Genital Stage
27. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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28. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met
informed consent
Babinski reflex
normal distribution
John Locke
29. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit
engineering psychologist
Dissociative identity disorder
top-down processing
empiricism
30. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Placebo effect
Learned Helplessness
functionalism
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
31. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8
rehearsal
Metal retardation
Sensation
Self-efficacy
32. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain
gate control theory
Attributions
Morpheme
Mary Ainsworth
33. 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)
Withdrawal Symptoms
flashbulb memories
Learning
34. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Aggression
Group
35. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech
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36. 17th century English philosopher. Wrote that the mind was a 'blank slate' or 'tabula rasa'; that is - people are born without innate ideas. We are completely shaped by our environment .
John Locke
Wolpe
Elaboration Likelihood Model
genotype
37. An observable action
behavior
(cerebral) cortex
Latency Stage
audition
38. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
preconscious
Latency Stage
working memory
Longitudinal Study
39. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
Bonding
adrenal glands
top-down processing
Positive Reinforcement
40. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
rehearsal
David Weschler
experimenter bias
authoritarian parenting
41. 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.
Defense Mechanism
pitch
variable
Size constancy
42. The extent to which scores differ from one another
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Ego
variability
Learned helplessness
43. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Conformity
44. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
Oral Stage
Broca's area
Cognitive Dissonance
Perception
45. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
Teratogen
Oral Stage
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
hippocampus
46. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.
Syntax
Visual cortex
Specific phobia
variable
47. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes
Latent Content
experiment
John Locke
receptor site
48. 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
Cognitive Dissonance
crystallized intelligence
Resilience
Self-actualization
49. 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
parathormone
William Sheldon
nurture
50. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort
graded potential
Harry Harlow
Language
photoreceptors