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AP Psychology
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1. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8
blind spot
cohort effect
Resistance
Metal retardation
2. 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
Edward Bradford Titchener
significant difference
schema
decay
3. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness
habituation
preconscious
scientific method
polygenic inheritance
4. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction
Abnormal Behavior
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Brainstorming
endorphins
5. 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
school psychologist
behaviorism
family studies
Social Loafing
6. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons
Regression
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Sensation
B.F. Skinner
7. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met
hindbrain
informed consent
chunks
Stimulus Generalization
8. Process in which the sense organs' receptor cells are stimulated and relay initial information to higher brain centers for further processing.
triarchic theory of intelligence
Time-out
Sensation
(cerebral) cortex
9. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response
Phineas Gage
Skinner Box
sociocultural psychology
Fixed-interval Schedule
10. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
decay
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
health psychologist
Consciousness
11. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.
motor projection areas
Approach-avoidance conflict
humanistic psychology
Rape
12. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
Unconscious
sample
Problem Solving
Decentration
13. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement
Drive
(cerebral) cortex
Ego
top-down processing
14. The spread between the highest and the lowest scores in a distribution
Unconditioned Stimulus
monocular cues
Adolescence
range
15. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
Consciousness
Drug
ESP
anorexia nervosa
16. 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
Sucking reflex
Kenneth Clark
sensory adaptation
17. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
Tolerance
crystallized intelligence
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
18. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes
authoritative parenting
Receptive fields
genetic mapping
Assessment
19. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
refractory period
Reflex
Approach-approach conflict
semantic memory
20. An insight therapy - developed be Carl Rogers - that seeks to help people evaluate the world and themselves from their own perspective by providing them with a nondirective environment and unconditional positive regard; also known as person-centered
Robert Zajonc
Client-centered therapy
rods
Working through
21. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
central nervous system
hypothesis
strain studies
Latent Learning
22. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
Raw score
Skinner Box
Cognitive Dissonance
Masters & Johnson
23. Sense of taste
Fixed-ratio Schedule
storage
Babinski reflex
gustation
24. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior
levels-of-processing approach
clinical psychologist
Receptive fields
variability
25. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions
hormone
Developmental Psychology
schema
Attributions
26. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
Unconditioned Stimulus
cornea
excitatory neurotransmitter
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
27. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
correlation coefficient
Visual cortex
descriptive statistics
sociocultural psychology
28. An individual who takes part in an experiment and whose behavior is observed as part of the data collection process
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Personal Fable
Insomnia
participant
29. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
Personal Fable
Attributions
nurture
amnesia
30. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
hypothesis
Visual cortex
Prejudice
elaborative rehearsal
31. A division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions; made up of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
autonomic nervous system
Standardization
Algorithm
Hans Eysenck
32. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
Altruism
thalamus
brain
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
33. Bundles of axons
procedural memory
significant difference
motor neurons
nerve
34. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Discrimination
Alfred Binet
Robert Rosenthal
Psychodynamically
35. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
Shaping
cornea
Blood-Brain Barrier
afferent neuron nerve
36. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons
Grasping reflex
efferent neuron nerve
Harry Harlow
Self-serving Bias
37. The expression of genes
Lawrence Kohlberg
encoding specificity principle
Heuristics
phenotype
38. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.
photoreceptors
Arousal
functionalism
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
39. Study of the brain and nervous system; overlaps with psychobiology
adaptation
neuroscience
Phoneme
retroactive interference
40. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed
Conditioned Stimulus
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
psychology
Orgasm phase
41. False beliefs that are inconsistent with reality but are held in spite of evidence that disproves them.
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Hue
Social Interest
Delusions
42. Organizing sensory information so it can be processed by the nervous system
Linguistics
Puberty
encoding
Cognitive theories
43. 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
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
epinephrine
Rape
psychology
44. The first person to study memory scientifically and systematically; used nonsense syllables and recorded how many times he had to study a list to remember it well
Hermann Ebbinghaus
sensory memory
opponent-process theory of emotion
Self-efficacy
45. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
selection studies
Circadian Rhythms
Spontaneous Recovery
self-fulfilling prophecy
46. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
correlational research
positive psychology
Skinner Box
explicit memory
47. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Konrad Lorenz
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Need for achievement
Opponent-process theory
48. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
Impression Formation
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
sociocultural psychology
Archetypes
49. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits
Babinski reflex
gene
mutation
Convergent thinking
50. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
William Sheldon
Assessment
Robert Sternberg
Overjustification effect