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AP Psychology
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1. Able to see objects at a distance clearly but having trouble seeing things up close; farsighted
Hyperopic
Assessment
pupil
Dream
2. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.
Dependence
Hue
Kenneth Clark
William Dement
3. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement
Preconscious
neural plasticity
(cerebral) cortex
Puberty
4. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.
Observational Learning Theory
Holmes & Rahe
frontal lobes
Trait
5. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
set point
Gordon Allport
Perception
Social Loafing
6. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand
psychology
pituitary gland
transfer appropriate processing
Grasping reflex
7. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
Ernst Weber
Accommodation
health psychologist
Assessment
8. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
Substance Abuser
Consciousness
difference threshold
short-term storage
9. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior
Genital Stage
mutation
clinical psychologist
Hans Eysenck
10. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
Saccades
normal distribution
ESP
descriptive statistics
11. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
adrenal glands
thyroxine
Imaginary Audience
Latent Learning
12. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters
Deindividuation
Monochromats
axon terminal
Stimulus Discrimination
13. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants
Gordon Allport
psychology
Gibson & Walk
nature-nurture controversy
14. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
Demand characteristics
neurotransmitters
pupil
monocular cues
15. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age
evolutionary psychology
structuralism
Assimilation
Representative sample
16. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
neuron
ethnocentrism
Interpersonal Attraction
17. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
Teratogen
hippocampus
Babinski reflex
Archetypes
18. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
myelin sheath
Fundamental Attribution Error
Standard score
Dissociative disorders
19. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
consolidation
Psycholinguistics
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Martin Seligman
20. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
action potential
Assessment
Behavior therapy
Concrete operational stage
21. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)
thyroxine
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Wechsler intelligence tests
Martin Seligman
22. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
schema
explicit memory
Attitudes
Psychotic
23. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.
fovea
Reactance
Aggression
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
24. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
Appraisal
mode
association areas
B.F. Skinner
25. 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
epinephrine
consolidation
Bystander Effect
population
26. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
menopause
sensory adaptation
corpus callosum
hindbrain
27. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
epinephrine
Free association
consolidation
Phineas Gage
28. Retrieval cues that match original information work better
Stimulus Discrimination
Psychotherapy
Insomnia
encoding specificity principle
29. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
fraternal twins
Stanley Schachter
autonomic nervous system
30. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Representative sample
Debriefing
psychometrician
Latent Content
31. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.
psychiatrist
receptor site
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Dream analysis
32. Neutral stimulus that - through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus - begins to elicit a conditioned response
Counterconditioning
Conditioned Stimulus
preconscious
Rational-emotive therapy
33. 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
Light
observer bias
relative refractory period
Placebo effect
34. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior
polarization
Raw score
Emotion
Social Facilitation
35. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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36. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
somatic nervous system
Stanley Schachter
developmental psychologist
37. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data
Babinski reflex
statistics
Self-efficacy
cochlea
38. In Piaget's view - a specific mental structure; an organized way of interacting with the environment and experiencing it- a generalization a child makes based on comparable occurences of various actins - usally physical - motor actions
Arousal
sensory adaptation
educational psychologist
Schema
39. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
René Descartes
Solomon Asch
Placenta
Bonding
40. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
Zajonc & Markus
Intimacy
social psychologist
Aversive counterconditioning
41. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Bulimia Nervosa
pituitary gland
Sociobiology
42. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
Dissociative identity disorder
Saturation
Light
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
43. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
synaptic vesicles
functionalism
percentile score
afferent neuron nerve
44. Prejudice against the elderly and the resulting discrimination against them
Ageism
blind spot
Gender Schema Theory
split brain patients
45. Morality based on consequences to self
Albert Bandura
monism
Anorexia Nervosa
preconventional level of moral development
46. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes
Projective Tests
anterograde amnesia
resting potential
scientific method
47. Experience of the difference threshold
Placenta
naturalistic observation
just noticeable difference (JND)
Psychosurgery
48. In emerging Theo psychology that focuses on positive experiences; includes subjective well-being - self-determination - the relationship between positive emotions and physical health - and the factors that allow individuals - communities - and societ
Biofeedback
positive psychology
midbrain
authoritarian parenting
49. 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
Noam Chomsky
polarization
William James
Blood-Brain Barrier
50. 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.
Projective Tests
Concrete operational stage
Conflict
pancreas