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AP Psychology
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1. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
Transduction
Anna O.
Hue
schema
2. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources
Token economy
Martin Seligman
Coping
Language
3. Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.
Aggression
Fundamental Attribution Error
psychobiology
Reflex
4. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
experimental group
menarche
zone of proximal development
Psychosurgery
5. Period of development from conception until birth
Brightness
prenatal development
monism
levels-of-processing approach
6. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
Social Facilitation
John Locke
Coping
memory
7. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Need for achievement
Depressive disorders
Social Categorization
Grammar
8. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.
opponent-process theory of emotion
natural selection
Projective Tests
evolutionary psychology
9. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
brainstem
Impression Formation
Phoneme
limbic system
10. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
explicit memory
Embryo
Robert Zajonc
Theory of mind
11. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never
Premack principle
nature-nurture controversy
Rosenhan
midbrain
12. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
difference threshold
declarative memory
Higher-order Conditioning
Trichromatic theory
13. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
Coping
interneurons
achievement test
EEG (electroencephalogram)
14. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems
Collective Unconscious
psychoanalyst
spinal cord
retina
15. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law
Sucking reflex
Ernst Weber
endocrine system
Resolution Phase
16. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
Emotion
Heuristics
Need
participant
17. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
Hermann Rorschach
Cognitive Dissonance
postconventional level of moral development
Grasping reflex
18. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
unconscious
Collective Unconscious
pons
mutation
19. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.
Secondary Punisher
neural impulse
Dichromats
Dream analysis
20. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
educational psychologist
Robert Rosenthal
Social Psychology
Tolerance
21. A descriptive research method in which researchers study behavior in its natural context.
decay
Gender stereotype
Discrimination
Naturalistic observation
22. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
amnesia
Charles Darwin
Longitudinal Study
rehearsal
23. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
Benjamin Whorf
insulin
Stress
Dark adaptation
24. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
opponent-process theory of emotion
Carl Jung
David Weschler
operational definition
25. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments
behaviorism
ethics
Psychotherapy
Absolute threshold
26. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.
Visual cortex
Bonding
sociocultural psychology
Charles Darwin
27. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
Latency Stage
thalamus
Drive
axon terminal
28. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
timbre
Decentration
Harry Stack Sullivan
Personality disorders
29. Emotional intelligence
Sensation
Gender Identity
measure of central tendency
Daniel Goleman
30. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8
Darley & Latane
functional MRI (fMRI)
Metal retardation
emotional intelligence
31. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles
humanistic psychology
Phillip Zimbardo
convolutions
Orgasm phase
32. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
Social Psychology
Paul Ekman
endorphins
mutation
33. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.
Monochromats
Body Language
Egocentrism
Gender Schema Theory
34. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Validity
Self-serving Bias
Anxiety
Phillip Zimbardo
35. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
Emotion
Herman von Helmholtz
Masters & Johnson
Ivan Pavlov
36. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
hypnosis
Secondary Punisher
Convergent thinking
phenotype
37. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle
Konrad Lorenz
crystallized intelligence
Anna Freud
observer bias
38. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory
sociocultural psychology
Observational Learning Theory
endocrine glands
Attributions
39. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
convolutions
functional MRI (fMRI)
Morpheme
cornea
40. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
Conformity
polygenic inheritance
central nervous system
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
41. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.
Percentile score
Ekman & Friesen
Symptom substitution
Edward Thorndike
42. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
Darley & Latane
cochlea
Preconscious
consolidation
43. 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
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
median
prenatal development
Abraham Maslow
44. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Regression
Convergent thinking
Monochromats
graded potential
45. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
frequency distribution
axon
Group therapy
Survey
46. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior
shaping
prenatal development
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
optic nerve
47. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
Abraham Maslow
elaborative rehearsal
Size constancy
Gazzaniga or Sperry
48. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
graded potential
Personality
Denial
shaping
49. 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
Gibson & Walk
Receptive fields
Sensation
50. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
Subliminal perception
encoding
Howard Gardner
representative sample