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AP Psychology
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1. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
Agoraphobia
parasympathetic nervous system
state-dependent learning
dopamine
2. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.
Transference
Prevalence
Cross-sectional Studies
Morpheme
3. Depth cues that are based on one eye
normal distribution
monocular cues
unconscious
Dream
4. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
Withdrawal Symptoms
Thanatology
descriptive statistics
Psychoactive Drug
5. 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
photoreceptors
endocrine system
Dream
6. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants
scientific method
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Anorexia Nervosa
Prototype
7. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort
Substance Abuser
Harry Harlow
insulin
Edward Bradford Titchener
8. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
percentile score
Bonding
Lucid Dream
Punishment
9. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.
neuropsychologist
bottom-up processing
neuroscience
Prejudice
10. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
debriefing
motivated forgetting
epinephrine
Metal retardation
11. A need or want that causes someone to act
Displacement
Gazzaniga or Sperry
motive
encoding
12. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse
neurotransmitters
association areas
midbrain
gate control theory
13. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
hypothalamus
encoding
Language
Law of Effect
14. 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.
DNA
Family therapy
Antisocial personality disorder
Biofeedback
15. 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
opponent-process theory of emotion
frontal lobes
aphasia
Expectancy Theories
16. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females
Gender stereotype
Child abuse
Rooting reflex
Social phobia
17. The general state of being aware of and responsive to events in the environment - as well as one's own mental processes
Socrates
convolutions
Consciousness
Social Cognition
18. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
nerve
parallel processing
Hue
Anal Stage
19. Transparent covering of the eye
cornea
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
somatic nervous system
epinephrine
20. 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
Schema
Learned helplessness
Premack principle
Daniel Goleman
21. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Fixation
Arousal
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Psychodynamically
22. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
Personality
Ideal Self
Collective Unconscious
Lev Vygotsky
23. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
Lawrence Kohlberg
antagonist
hindbrain
Sensorimotor stage
24. Cognition and memory; studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony
Charles Darwin
Prevalence
mean
Elizabeth Loftus
25. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood
Puberty
amygdala
Resilience
postconventional level of moral development
26. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
ex post facto study
Approach-avoidance conflict
Drive
Brightness
27. 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.
Reactance
Broca's area
ethnocentrism
behavior
28. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Hermann Rorschach
Alzheimer's Disease
Sucking reflex
Validity
29. Does research on how people function best with machines
resting potential
retrieval
ex post facto study
engineering psychologist
30. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
semantic memory
Lewis Terman
Psychoactive Drug
Agoraphobia
31. The highness or lowness of a sound
neurogenesis
William James
pitch
Descriptive Studies
32. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness
Motive
Embryo
Egocentrism
ions
33. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
Raymond Cattell
Self-efficacy
emotional intelligence
mean
34. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
excitatory neurotransmitter
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Emotion
Unconditioned Response
35. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
transfer appropriate processing
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
psychology
Reliability
36. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.
Survey
Interpretation
Time-out
participant
37. Inability to understand or use language
aphasia
Transduction
recessive gene
school psychologist
38. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
Halo effect
Schema
Heritability
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
39. When a neuron is in polarization; more negative ions are inside the neuron cell membrane with a positive ions on the outside - causing a small electrical charge; release of this charge generates a neuron's impulse (signal/message)
antagonist
Grammar
authoritarian parenting
resting potential
40. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
mean
sympathetic nervous system
chromosome
difference threshold
41. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh
Circadian Rhythms
Psychoneuroimmunology
Cognitive Dissonance
state-dependent learning
42. Humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization - transcendence
Abraham Maslow
Deindividuation
cognitive psychology
positive psychology
43. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
Learned helplessness
Concrete operational stage
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
psychiatrist
44. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
Punishment
Wechsler intelligence tests
Conflict
frontal lobes
45. A division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions; made up of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
variability
health psychologist
Unconditioned Response
autonomic nervous system
46. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions
Groupthink
emotional intelligence
retrograde amnesia
motive
47. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction
Hobson & McCarley
population
Client-centered therapy
cochlea
48. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Percentile score
Antisocial personality disorder
Gender
interneurons
49. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
Latency Stage
dopamine
Herman von Helmholtz
Descriptive Studies
50. The biologically based categories of male and female
Plateau phase
Carl Rogers
Sex
school psychologist