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AP Psychology
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1. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume
behavioral genetics
habituation
nervous system
Conservation
2. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
pseudoscience
prenatal development
range
Spontaneous Recovery
3. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat
John B Watson
Social Cognition
Placenta
sports psychologist
4. Establish the relationship between two variables
John Garcia
Carl Rogers
correlational research
Broca's area
5. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
ex post facto study
genotype
Phonology
Excitement phase
6. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input
Positive Reinforcement
psychometrician
Variable-ratio Schedule
ESP
7. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
optic nerve
Personality
achievement test
endocrine system
8. 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
Blood-Brain Barrier
Sociobiology
Tolman
9. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
maintenance rehearsal
sensory memory
developmental psychologist
Punishment
10. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism
Convergent thinking
ex post facto study
Collective Unconscious
natural selection
11. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning
Phineas Gage
Anna O.
hypothalamus
pancreas
12. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients
endocrine system
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Self-efficacy
Morality
13. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Personality
thyroid gland
Psycholinguistics
14. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
Darley & Latane
Agoraphobia
Robert Rosenthal
Plateau phase
15. The evaluation of the significance of a situation or event as it relates to a person's well-being
Zygote
Rationalization
descriptive statistics
Appraisal
16. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
David Rosenhan
instinct
Tolerance
Oedipus Complex
17. 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
Social Loafing
ethics
Lawrence Kohlberg
working memory
18. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
structuralism
Counterconditioning
photoreceptors
Obedience
19. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
Observational Learning Theory
Ekman & Friesen
engineering psychologist
Phallic Stage
20. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
ex post facto study
memory
Learned helplessness
21. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
Mediation
functionalism
Reliability
achievement test
22. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Harry Harlow
Attributions
ex post facto study
Light
23. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
prenatal development
inferential statistics
implicit memory
Conflict
24. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter
antagonist
Mary Ainsworth
brain
receptor site
25. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.
Assessment
token economy
Personality disorders
sociocultural psychology
26. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
Manifest Content
sensory adaptation
preconscious
case study
27. The extent to which scores differ from one another
Carl Rogers
proactive interference
variability
human genomes
28. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
Prejudice
Depressive disorders
insulin
consolidation
29. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.
independent variable
Phallic Stage
Repression
Attachment
30. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.
Semantics
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Alfred Binet
Cognitive Psychology
31. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.
Stanley Milgram
Rational-emotive therapy
empiricism
gate control theory
32. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
chunks
Aggression
Group
Reasoning
33. Creates a computerized image using x-rays passed through the brain
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
crystallized intelligence
Noam Chomsky
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
34. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
Normal curve
Monochromats
Stimulus Discrimination
David McClelland
35. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
aphasia
Reasoning
parietal lobes
conventional level of moral development
36. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism
gonads
long-term potentiation
Primary Punisher
gate control theory
37. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
adaptation
gate control theory
midbrain
aversive conditioning
38. Inability to understand or use language
cornea
selection studies
Operant Conditioning
aphasia
39. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
variable
Elaboration Likelihood Model
twin studies
Jean Piaget
40. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
Albert Ellis
gustation
Lucid Dream
nature
41. 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.
relative refractory period
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
psychoanalyst
Family therapy
42. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'
Conformity
Erik Erikson
adaptation
Rooting reflex
43. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter
operational definition
bottom-up processing
agonist
sensory memory
44. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
hindbrain
Mainstreaming
Anna Freud
nonconscious
45. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life
Psychotic
industrial/organizational psychologist
Rosenhan
Collective Unconscious
46. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain
phenotype
gate control theory
Wolpe
Burnout
47. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond
peripheral nervous system
Heuristics
demand characteristics
developmental psychologist
48. The increase in sensitivity to light that occurs when the illumination level changes from high to low - causing chemicals in the rods and cones to regenerate and return to their inactive state.
Syntax
Dark adaptation
Symptom substitution
ex post facto study
49. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics
Langer & Rodin
Case study
Anxiety
maintenance rehearsal
50. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Social Facilitation
adaptation
inhibitory neurotransmitter