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AP Psychology
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1. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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2. Adrenaline; activates a sympathetic nervous system by making the heart beat faster - stopping digestion - enlarging pupils - sending sugar into the bloodstream - preparing a blood clot faster
elaborative rehearsal
epinephrine
replication
sound localization
3. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
midbrain
Denial
Morpheme
Learned Helplessness
4. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Self-fulfilling prophecy
survey research
introspection
5. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.
Aristotle
Gibson & Walk
Conservation
Projection
6. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)
Double bind
bulimia nervosa
Projective Tests
Factor analysis
7. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
Secondary Reinforcer
Approach-avoidance conflict
peripheral nervous system
Psychoneuroimmunology
8. A fertilized egg
Zygote
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Linguistics
9. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.
Trichromats
Insight therapy
Counterconditioning
informed consent
10. The suppression of one bit of information by another
experimenter bias
Dream
interference
Major depressive disorder
11. A group of psychological disorders characterized by a lack of reality testing and by deterioration of social and intellectual functioning and personality beginning before age 45 and lasting at least 6 months
acetylcholine (ACh)
fraternal twins
Schizophrenic disorders
DNA
12. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics
Free association
amygdala
representative sample
serotonin
13. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically
Preoperational stage
Libido
Rape
Heuristics
14. Does research on how people function best with machines
engineering psychologist
Logic
nature
Genital Stage
15. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
parietal lobes
Substance Abuser
Edward Thorndike
Standard score
16. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time
thyroid gland
norepinephrine
Paul Ekman
Type A behavior
17. Theorist who both aided in the development of the trichromatic theory of color perception and Place theory of pitch perception.
Prosocial Behavior
replication
Herman von Helmholtz
interference
18. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.
Trichromatic theory
psychobiology
Social Need
Carl Rogers
19. The extent to which scores differ from one another
Transference
variability
Shaping
Gender stereotype
20. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.
psychobiology
Stressor
Vulnerability
Saturation
21. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
Logic
Signal Detection Theory
Von Restorff effect
descriptive statistics
22. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
Vasocongestion
synaptic vesicles
maintenance rehearsal
primacy effect
23. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
Ivan Pavlov
sociocultural psychology
Sucking reflex
Experimental design
24. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Need for achievement
Representative sample
Groupthink
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
25. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior
Ego
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Self-efficacy
Emotion
26. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
Types
Latent Learning
significant difference
adaptation
27. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond
demand characteristics
Survey
Anorexia Nervosa
Francis Galton
28. 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
Nonverbal Communication
Id
Client-centered therapy
Martin Seligman
29. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
Premack principle
Walter B. Cannon
Rationalization
all-or-none principle
30. The biologically based categories of male and female
Plateau phase
motor projection areas
Sex
aphasia
31. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.
pseudoscience
Teratogen
short-term storage
Psychotic
32. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
structuralism
Latent Learning
gustation
Personality
33. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life
Agoraphobia
Thanatology
Lewis Terman
variability
34. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill
Darley & Latane
zone of proximal development
Preconscious
nature
35. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross
Self-serving Bias
Nonverbal Communication
Blood-Brain Barrier
Dependence
36. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
descriptive statistics
Cognitive Psychology
neurogenesis
frequency polygon
37. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
brain
opponent-process theory of emotion
Secondary Punisher
Double-blind techniques
38. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
Teratogen
Fulfillment
elaborative rehearsal
semantic memory
39. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.
Positive Reinforcement
Reasoning
Rosenhan
Mary Cover-Jones
40. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
neurotransmitters
experimenter bias
Herman von Helmholtz
Algorithm
41. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information
memory
Phillip Zimbardo
motive
Dependence
42. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
Personality disorders
Tolman
Conditioned Response
authoritative parenting
43. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
Actor-observer Effect
Psychophysics
descriptive statistics
median
44. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
Psychoactive Drug
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Drive
Learned Helplessness
45. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
Primary Reinforcer
cerebellum
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
hypnosis
46. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.
brainstem
Problem Solving
Gestalt psychology
empiricism
47. 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
ethnocentrism
Manifest Content
thyroid gland
Self-actualization
48. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates
neuroscience
Model
Clark Hull
Phobic disorders
49. Able to see objects at a distance clearly but having trouble seeing things up close; farsighted
Prosocial Behavior
Hyperopic
functionalism
David Rosenhan
50. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Arousal
Reaction Formation
Robert Zajonc