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AP Psychology
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1. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe
midbrain
Specific phobia
temporal lobes
split brain patients
2. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
Blood-Brain Barrier
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Descriptive Studies
Actor-observer Effect
3. 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.
Need for achievement
Prosocial Behavior
Health psychology
Attributions
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
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
introspection
blind spot
Convergent thinking
5. 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
Delusions
Phallic Stage
working memory
Self-actualization
6. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.
Family therapy
Double bind
Von Restorff effect
Signal Detection Theory
7. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data
Langer & Rodin
statistics
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Ideal Self
8. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Social phobia
Moro reflex
amnesia
Langer & Rodin
9. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior
twin studies
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
schema
optic nerve
10. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
amnesia
Thanatology
Phonology
Intelligence
11. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
parathyroid
normal distribution
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
amnesia
12. 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
motivated forgetting
levels-of-processing approach
Metal retardation
13. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
ESP
Embryo
parasympathetic nervous system
ex post facto study
14. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization
Kenneth Clark
Fulfillment
polarization
Psycholinguistics
15. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)
Receptive fields
parathyroid
Collective Unconscious
Conservation
16. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
genetics
Fulfillment
ex post facto study
adrenal glands
17. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
Zajonc & Markus
behavioral genetics
health psychologist
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
18. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
Self-perception Theory
Gestalt psychology
Gender
forebrain
19. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking
Time-out
Higher-order Conditioning
cognitive psychology
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
20. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
amnesia
Emotion
split brain patients
Bulimia Nervosa
21. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
preconscious
Cognitive Dissonance
primacy effect
neuron
22. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
Substance Abuser
Free association
kinesthesis
counseling psychologist
23. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
range
Elizabeth Loftus
psychobiology
Psychoactive Drug
24. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series
Aristotle
difference threshold
recency effect
sample
25. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.
Konrad Lorenz
retrograde amnesia
Collective Unconscious
Obedience
26. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher
significant difference
Approach-avoidance conflict
Dissociative identity disorder
retroactive interference
27. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond
demand characteristics
frontal lobes
rehearsal
Health psychology
28. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
Stress
state-dependent learning
elaborative rehearsal
counseling psychologist
29. The suppression of one bit of information by another
ex post facto study
social psychologist
Sex
interference
30. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'
preconventional level of moral development
Plateau phase
pituitary gland
Gender stereotype
31. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
Halo effect
Projection
David Weschler
instinct
32. 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
Phallic Stage
Self-actualization
axon terminal
Edward Thorndike
33. 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).
Genital Stage
achievement test
Interpretation
gustation
34. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
unconscious
Social Influence
Collective Unconscious
Algorithm
35. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions
monocular cues
triarchic theory of intelligence
clinical psychologist
frequency polygon
36. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
Circadian Rhythms
cerebellum
Validity
Social Interest
37. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Phoneme
introspection
Trait
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
38. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.
Systematic desensitization
Nonverbal Communication
Benjamin Whorf
ethics
39. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
Lev Vygotsky
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
autonomic nervous system
ex post facto study
40. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body
set point
Superstitious Behavior
iris
refractory period
41. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
set point
Law of Effect
Lewis Terman
Mainstreaming
42. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
Representative sample
Double-blind techniques
Rape
Reaction Formation
43. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
Free association
chromosome
relative refractory period
neuropsychologist
44. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable
confounding variable
hormone
placebo effect
Assimilation
45. Moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication
genetic mapping
Intimacy
Circadian Rhythms
Lawrence Kohlberg
46. Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of - and desire to avoid - situations in which the person might be exposed to scrutiny by others and might behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way.
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Operant Conditioning
polarization
Social phobia
47. Automatic behavior that occurs involuntarily in response to a stimulus and without prior learning and usually shows little variability from instance to instance
strain studies
Conformity
Daniel Goleman
Reflex
48. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech
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49. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
hindbrain
Dissociative amnesia
Vasocongestion
Preconscious
50. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
Theory of mind
participant
Token economy
Jean Piaget