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AP Psychology
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1. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -
Self-actualization
Harry Harlow
Learned helplessness
receptor site
2. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
sensory memory
Logic
endorphins
adaptation
3. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
brainstem
Superstitious Behavior
Electromagnetic Radiation
Morality
4. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary
health psychologist
school psychologist
Alfred Binet
Karen Horney
5. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands
Cognitive Psychology
Resilience
neural impulse
working memory
6. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
Plateau phase
flashbulb memories
engineering psychologist
natural selection
7. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Validity
Generalized anxiety disorder
hippocampus
Electromagnetic Radiation
8. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)
Personality disorders
parathyroid
selective attention
Major depressive disorder
9. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
random sample
Judith Langlois
Personality disorders
Bystander Effect
10. A period after firing when a neuron is returning to its normal polarize state and will only fire again if the incoming message open parentheses impulse) is stronger than usual; returning to arresting state
Concrete operational stage
relative refractory period
Deindividuation
Social Psychology
11. Developed one of the first projective tests - the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story - the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary
Hermann Rorschach
experiment
Expectancy Theories
hippocampus
12. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response
Hue
Signal Detection Theory
DNA
Extinction (classical conditioning)
13. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Stimulus Discrimination
functionalism
descriptive statistics
14. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
experiment
Nonverbal Communication
Expectancy Theories
Vulnerability
15. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.
Superego
decay
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Self
16. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.
Prosocial Behavior
independent variable
DNA
Zajonc & Markus
17. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
maintenance rehearsal
Group
Concordance rate
Fixed-ratio Schedule
18. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Alfred Adler
nature-nurture controversy
confounding variable
19. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative
Ageism
family studies
social psychologist
menarche
20. Reproductive glands-male - testes; female - ovaries
gonads
Demand characteristics
monism
adrenal glands
21. Fixed - overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.
Law of Effect
primacy effect
Stereotypes
optic nerve
22. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
storage
Benjamin Whorf
binocular cues
psychology
23. Humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization - transcendence
neural impulse
Abraham Maslow
Anxiety
maintenance rehearsal
24. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
triarchic theory of intelligence
Rational-emotive therapy
Gestalt psychology
lens
25. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
Self-perception Theory
social psychologist
declarative memory
Thanatology
26. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
Fulfillment
cerebellum
psychobiology
Genital Stage
27. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.
Secondary Punisher
Social Influence
Symptom substitution
Phonology
28. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands
Coping
axon
Teratogen
frequency polygon
29. 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.
Representative sample
Anxiety
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Ernst Weber
30. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
Stereotypes
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Visual cortex
Psychodynamically
31. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
Light
interference
anorexia nervosa
Stanley Schachter
32. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
pseudoscience
convolutions
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Model
33. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
Repression
statistics
Insight therapy
memory span
34. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
Client-centered therapy
primacy effect
timbre
Resilience
35. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
Intrinsic motivation
Daniel Goleman
developmental psychologist
Gibson & Walk
36. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
Self-efficacy
Unconditioned Response
working memory
Mary Cover-Jones
37. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
sympathetic nervous system
Paul Ekman
imagery
developmental psychologist
38. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
sociocultural psychology
Babinski reflex
Learned Helplessness
Oral Stage
39. Bundles of axons
positive psychology
B.F. Skinner
Generalized anxiety disorder
nerve
40. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Social Cognition
thyroxine
Little Albert
Arousal
41. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Symptom substitution
dependent variable
triarchic theory of intelligence
42. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Longitudinal Study
natural selection
Placebo effect
43. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
Von Restorff effect
Brightness
cohort effect
audition
44. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
Systematic desensitization
Gender stereotype
Optic chiasm
Raw score
45. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions
somatic nervous system
Dissociative amnesia
William Dement
temporal lobes
46. The highness or lowness of a sound
convolutions
Sex
pitch
amnesia
47. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ
Cross-sectional Studies
Moro reflex
Gender stereotype
Overjustification effect
48. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
Decision making
Moro reflex
Receptive fields
genetics
49. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
forebrain
John Garcia
consolidation
Libido
50. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
schema
Attitudes
Debriefing
parathormone