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AP Psychology
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1. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond
Masters & Johnson
demand characteristics
Superstitious Behavior
Unconditioned Stimulus
2. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
Accommodation
parasympathetic nervous system
flashbulb memories
Resilience
3. 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
Groupthink
Von Restorff effect
Overjustification effect
family studies
4. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent
Demand characteristics
case study
Perception
Phonology
5. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities
Family therapy
Von Restorff effect
Thanatology
functional MRI (fMRI)
6. Released by adrenal glands; triggered by norepinephrine to prolong the response to stress (used in the sympathetic nervous system)
Stanley Milgram
John Garcia
Saccades
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
7. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
myelin sheath
Visual cortex
Brightness
8. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.
Symptom substitution
Logic
Actor-observer Effect
Social Cognition
9. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
Denial
interneurons
conventional level of moral development
Stimulant
10. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
Libido
Longitudinal Study
eclectic
dualism
11. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Observational Learning Theory
Subliminal perception
Monochromats
Hue
12. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe
Francis Galton
Unconscious
Hermann Rorschach
Decentration
13. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
Gazzaniga or Sperry
bottom-up processing
parallel processing
Mainstreaming
14. Following a strong emotion - an opposing emotion counters the first emotion - lessening the experience of that emotion; on repeated occasions - the opposing emotion becomes stronger
Consciousness
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
opponent-process theory of emotion
15. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Double-blind techniques
Means-ends analysis
Groupthink
16. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
Albert Ellis
Logic
Robert Rosenthal
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
17. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses
Absolute threshold
phenotype
motor neurons
photoreceptors
18. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
Impression Formation
recency effect
Stanley Schachter
Metal retardation
19. 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
hindbrain
epinephrine
strain studies
thyroid gland
20. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event
Biofeedback
Langer & Rodin
retrograde amnesia
Conditioned Stimulus
21. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall
Types
anterograde amnesia
David Rosenhan
Anna O.
22. Released by thyroid; hormone that regulates the body's metabolism; OVERACTIVE-over-excitability - insomnia - reduced attention span - fatigue - snap decisions - reduced concentration (hyperthyroidism); UNDERACTIVE-desire to sleep - constantly tired -
Excitement phase
experimenter bias
psychologist
thyroxine
23. 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 -
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Self-actualization
Demand characteristics
Gazzaniga or Sperry
24. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
aphasia
Noam Chomsky
Substance Abuser
Dissociative disorders
25. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions
Albert Ellis
Oral Stage
Anna O.
statistics
26. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state
pancreas
parathyroid
Resolution Phase
Bystander Effect
27. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable
sensory neurons
operational definition
authoritative parenting
Perception
28. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events
Child abuse
Sensorimotor stage
difference threshold
Expectancy Theories
29. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research
pitch
conventional level of moral development
cerebellum
Lev Vygotsky
30. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.
family studies
sociocultural psychology
mode
Trait
31. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
Latency Stage
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Carol Gilligan
correlational research
32. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.
Burnout
Psychoanalysis
hypothalamus
Aristotle
33. Inability to understand or use language
Trichromats
aphasia
humanistic psychology
Self-efficacy
34. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain
afferent neuron nerve
Theory of mind
convolutions
acetylcholine (ACh)
35. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
rehearsal
monism
Assimilation
glial cells
36. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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37. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
Resilience
schema
long-term potentiation
axon
38. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions
interneurons
Anal Stage
Sex
Stanley Milgram
39. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands
Arousal
Need for achievement
industrial/organizational psychologist
Displacement
40. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits
Von Restorff effect
Fixation
Depressive disorders
gene
41. Piaget's thrid stage of cognitive development (lasting from approximately age 6 or 7 to age 11 or 12) - during which the child develops the ability to understand constant factors in the environment - rules - and higher-order symbolic systems
Concrete operational stage
elaborative rehearsal
Hans Eysenck
inhibitory neurotransmitter
42. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
gustation
Transference
Prosocial Behavior
hypothesis
43. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
Collective Unconscious
autonomic nervous system
Psycholinguistics
polygenic inheritance
44. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s
corpus callosum
convolutions
Approach-avoidance conflict
Body Language
45. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Psychoactive Drug
glial cells
Sociobiology
46. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea
Group
David Rosenhan
hindbrain
evolutionary psychology
47. 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.
Social phobia
operational definition
Puberty
Little Albert
48. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
pupil
Fundamental Attribution Error
introspection
Variable-interval Schedule
49. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Little Albert
Validity
gustation
Vasocongestion
50. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
William Dement
Need for achievement
resting potential
Edward Thorndike