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AP Psychology
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1. Following a strong emotion - an opposing emotion counters the first emotion - lessening the experience of that emotion; on repeated occasions - the opposing emotion becomes stronger
Operant Conditioning
Robert Sternberg
opponent-process theory of emotion
Reasoning
2. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
Gibson & Walk
Longitudinal Study
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Logic
3. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body
nervous system
Dementia
set point
Dissociative amnesia
4. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
Denial
mode
antagonist
Decision making
5. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
Psychophysics
Gestalt psychology
Genital Stage
Rationalization
6. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain
DNA
Conditioned Response
gate control theory
correlation coefficient
7. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
sensory memory
Cross-sectional Studies
Judith Langlois
inhibitory neurotransmitter
8. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
Divergent thinking
Anxiety
Francis Galton
Altruism
9. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
humanistic psychology
Stanley Milgram
recessive gene
achievement test
10. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
hindbrain
convolutions
Self-efficacy
Conflict
11. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.
bottom-up processing
Tolerance
endocrine glands
Major depressive disorder
12. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
acetylcholine (ACh)
recessive gene
Time-out
Babinski reflex
13. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Intelligence
Conflict
Gordon Allport
14. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
Altruism
Edward Bradford Titchener
David Weschler
sympathetic nervous system
15. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
Vulnerability
difference threshold
psychology
random sample
16. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.
Sublimation
family studies
Preconscious
Self-actualization
17. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction
sensory memory
confounding variable
Lewis Terman
cochlea
18. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
habituation
glial cells
Normal curve
Conditioned Response
19. 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.
random sample
spinal cord
ex post facto study
Placebo effect
20. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
Trichromats
Carl Jung
Premack principle
Darley & Latane
21. The process by which the location of sound is determined
genotype
sound localization
variability
chunks
22. The suppression of one bit of information by another
Punishment
state-dependent learning
Accommodation
interference
23. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems
Plateau phase
counseling psychologist
Learned helplessness
Sublimation
24. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory
working memory
Judith Langlois
Dissociative disorders
Secondary Reinforcer
25. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
forebrain
dualism
phenotype
Stress
26. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place
Aaron Beck
Learned Helplessness
nervous system
frequency distribution
27. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
Higher-order Conditioning
monocular cues
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
transfer appropriate processing
28. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.
Androgynous
Stanley Schachter
Absolute threshold
Operant Conditioning
29. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
levels-of-processing approach
agonist
Anna Freud
consolidation
30. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
authoritative parenting
monism
gustation
Dark adaptation
31. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands
polygenic inheritance
Collective Unconscious
axon
Placenta
32. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Lucid Dream
binocular cues
endocrine system
33. Sense of taste
Charles Spearman
gustation
Libido
Algorithm
34. 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
Langer & Rodin
Critical Period
Learned Helplessness
Excitement phase
35. 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
emotional intelligence
Problem Solving
psychoanalytic
Heuristics
36. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
myelin sheath
association areas
Leon Festinger
Language
37. In an experiment - the group of participants to whom a treatment is given
naturalistic observation
Debriefing
experimental group
strain studies
38. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
Need
Tolerance
lens
Stressor
39. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives
myelin sheath
Latent Content
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
pitch
40. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.
Child abuse
Perception
fovea
norepinephrine
41. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
Impression Formation
developmental psychologist
dendrites
elaborative rehearsal
42. An observable action
Psycholinguistics
David Weschler
Transference
behavior
43. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series
recency effect
adaptation
Elizabeth Loftus
Gender stereotype
44. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.
short-term storage
Double-blind techniques
Photoreceptors
dominant genes
45. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data
Fetus
limbic system
psychometrician
Thanatology
46. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
Optic chiasm
sound localization
Nonverbal Communication
Self
47. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Lewis Terman
identical twins
neurogenesis
Percentile score
48. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches
eclectic
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Social Influence
blind spot
49. The depth and richness of a hue determined by determined by the homogeneity of the wavelengths contained in the reflected light; also known as purity.
Saturation
Descriptive Studies
Erik Erikson
Hobson & McCarley
50. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'
thalamus
Deviation IQ
representative sample
timbre