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AP Psychology
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1. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.
Robert Rosenthal
Self-perception Theory
Longitudinal Study
Repression
2. Organizing sensory information so it can be processed by the nervous system
encoding
anorexia nervosa
Conformity
Rooting reflex
3. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
double-blind procedure
occipital lobes
Antisocial personality disorder
Burnout
4. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
placebo
population
parallel processing
Phoneme
5. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
Reaction Formation
Law of Effect
recessive gene
Stanley Schachter
6. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
neural impulse
Erik Erikson
Deviation IQ
Reasoning
7. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
Coping
explicit memory
Emotion
Consciousness
8. 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
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Schizophrenic disorders
fovea
case study
9. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
encoding specificity principle
rods
Fetus
glial cells
10. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.
hindbrain
Projection
mode
Rational-emotive therapy
11. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
Carl Jung
Token economy
action potential
prenatal development
12. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones
retina
spinal cord
Abraham Maslow
Conflict
13. 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
optic nerve
epinephrine
resting potential
Types
14. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
neural plasticity
Erik Erikson
Regression
Cross-sectional study
15. Neutral stimulus that - through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus - begins to elicit a conditioned response
Impression Formation
Conditioned Stimulus
Theory of mind
Trichromats
16. 'Wernicke's area'; discovered area of left temporal lobe that involved language understanding: person damaged in this area uses correct words but they do not make sense
Karl Wernicke
neurotransmitters
Unconditioned Response
dependent variable
17. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Henry Murray
psychology
Concordance rate
cochlea
18. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire
independent variable
Hobson & McCarley
experimenter bias
excitatory neurotransmitter
19. The situation that occurs when the drug becomes part of the body's functioning and produces withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued
Debriefing
Dependence
educational psychologist
Bonding
20. The human need to fulfill one's potential
Rationalization
Jean Piaget
Charles Spearman
self-actualization
21. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.
Sociobiology
somatic nervous system
Latent Learning
Burnout
22. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8
Metal retardation
forebrain
Classical Conditioning
Stressor
23. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
optic nerve
Fixed-ratio Schedule
afferent neuron nerve
Plateau phase
24. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
moral development
crystallized intelligence
Double-blind techniques
Fixed-ratio Schedule
25. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
spinal cord
Regression
Positive Reinforcement
bulimia nervosa
26. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Stimulus Generalization
memory
Phallic Stage
Need for achievement
27. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment
Hue
Extrinsic motivation
Need
midbrain
28. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
Demand characteristics
Rational-emotive therapy
retrieval
Stanley Schachter
29. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness
preconscious
Photoreceptors
Social Facilitation
levels-of-processing approach
30. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
somatic nervous system
Rosenhan
Vulnerability
brain
31. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
parasympathetic nervous system
Working through
hindbrain
Preoperational stage
32. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic value for an organism but that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
photoreceptors
Secondary Reinforcer
John Locke
33. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants
neuron
Working through
Symptom substitution
Self-fulfilling prophecy
34. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)
Archetypes
blind spot
sensory neurons
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
35. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction
psychiatrist
strain studies
Secondary Sex Characteristics
motor neurons
36. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)
Longitudinal Study
Adolescence
Phineas Gage
Robert Sternberg
37. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
Ego
Bonding
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Ideal Self
38. 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
Substance Abuser
Preoperational stage
prenatal development
ethnocentrism
39. 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
Unconscious
Rosenhan
Decision making
demand characteristics
40. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve
Visual cortex
Normal curve
Temperament
Norms
41. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
sensory memory
dominant genes
Dark adaptation
observer bias
42. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
Psycholinguistics
Lawrence Kohlberg
Factor analysis
Placenta
43. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
Noam Chomsky
Id
Masters & Johnson
experimenter bias
44. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Robert Yerkes
Phoneme
Social Facilitation
45. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.
standard deviation
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Saturation
Gender
46. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
Paul Ekman
experiment
Self-efficacy
Libido
47. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste
glial cells
Secondary Reinforcer
Heritability
humanistic psychology
48. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
representative sample
Halo effect
Self-perception Theory
Gender Schema Theory
49. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
blind spot
Carl Jung
Moro reflex
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
50. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.
Client-centered therapy
frequency
Lucid Dream
Rational-emotive therapy