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AP Psychology
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1. 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
sound localization
Major depressive disorder
Dark adaptation
2. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.
Family therapy
Defense Mechanism
selective attention
adaptation
3. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place
working memory
selection studies
memory span
Jean Piaget
4. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population
transfer appropriate processing
Latent Content
Consciousness
Heritability
5. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.
Semantics
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Personal Fable
Learned Helplessness
6. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned
Socrates
aptitude test
Conditioning
Orgasm phase
7. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.
Learned helplessness
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Robert Yerkes
nurture
8. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment
thalamus
Alfred Adler
preconscious
Moro reflex
9. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter
Stimulus Generalization
median
agonist
aptitude test
10. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
normal distribution
Latent Content
somatic nervous system
elaborative rehearsal
11. Psychoanalytic technique in which a person is asked to report to the therapist his or her thoughts and feelings as they occur - regardless of how trivial - illogical - or objectionable their content may appear.
gate control theory
Free association
Language
encoding specificity principle
12. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.
Psychotic
habituation
Naturalistic observation
Interpersonal Attraction
13. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad
Operant Conditioning
Morality
(cerebral) cortex
Blood-Brain Barrier
14. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
Psycholinguistics
Aversive counterconditioning
primacy effect
Oral Stage
15. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.
Gibson & Walk
Negative Reinforcement
Reflex
Syntax
16. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.
Moro reflex
behavioral genetics
Depressive disorders
Latent Content
17. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
Edward Bradford Titchener
Self-actualization
Preconscious
Arousal
18. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
Fulfillment
psychology
sensory adaptation
Abraham Maslow
19. 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.
Karen Horney
Konrad Lorenz
empiricism
Projective Tests
20. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
naturalistic observation
Konrad Lorenz
fraternal twins
semantic memory
21. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
nature-nurture controversy
sensory adaptation
hypnosis
Self-fulfilling prophecy
22. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
Model
Social Need
Counterconditioning
Electromagnetic Radiation
23. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.
Language
Howard Gardner
Antisocial personality disorder
Family therapy
24. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
experimenter bias
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Bulimia Nervosa
Ex Post Facto Design
25. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
Signal Detection Theory
Howard Gardner
anterograde amnesia
maintenance rehearsal
26. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes
blind spot
Deviation IQ
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
genetic mapping
27. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
Socrates
olfaction
Depressive disorders
fraternal twins
28. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision
Mediation
Sucking reflex
cones
social psychologist
29. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works
psychologist
opponent-process theory of emotion
functionalism
B.F. Skinner
30. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
Stimulus Generalization
rehearsal
Wilhelm Wundt
Subliminal perception
31. According to Piaget - the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences
standard deviation
Zygote
Accommodation
Brainstorming
32. The sense of hearing
descriptive statistics
Lucid Dream
Type A behavior
audition
33. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
Morality
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
inferential statistics
Gender
34. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
Case study
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Dependence
selective attention
35. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
Aaron Beck
phenotype
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
nervous system
36. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)
Psychoactive Drug
postconventional level of moral development
Shaping
blind spot
37. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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38. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
Decision making
Agoraphobia
Saturation
schema
39. Morality based on consequences to self
Normal curve
Personality
preconventional level of moral development
recency effect
40. A branch of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body functions; it calms the body after sympathetic stimulation
Classical Conditioning
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Blood-Brain Barrier
parasympathetic nervous system
41. 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
Factor analysis
Aaron Beck
observer bias
42. A test score that has not been transformed or converted in any way
autonomic nervous system
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Hue
Raw score
43. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment
Extinction (classical conditioning)
ions
serotonin
Learning
44. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
Backward search
Law of Effect
motivated forgetting
Projection
45. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
imagery
representative sample
Delusions
Carl Jung
46. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
case study
Mediation
Wilhelm Wundt
47. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
strain studies
photoreceptors
Dissociative identity disorder
Anxiety
48. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories
James-Lange theory of emotion
Secondary Punisher
Assessment
hippocampus
49. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
Reflex
Tolman
rods
Standard score
50. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
Behavior therapy
pitch
functional MRI (fMRI)
Ex Post Facto Design