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AP Psychology
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1. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
Fixed-interval Schedule
ex post facto study
pons
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
2. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters
Conditioning
axon terminal
insulin
Opponent-process theory
3. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.
hypothesis
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Higher-order Conditioning
Bystander Effect
4. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
dualism
pituitary gland
Attachment
social psychologist
5. Transparent covering of the eye
evolutionary psychology
Phillip Zimbardo
cornea
pseudoscience
6. The general state of being aware of and responsive to events in the environment - as well as one's own mental processes
gustation
Excitement phase
levels-of-processing approach
Consciousness
7. 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.
Dark adaptation
Approach-avoidance conflict
heritability
Interpretation
8. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; criticized Freud - stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses - rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts - neurotic trends; concept of 'basic anxiety'
flashbulb memories
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Karen Horney
motor neurons
9. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
Preconscious
Representative sample
axon
cornea
10. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
Vasocongestion
nature-nurture controversy
Hue
neural impulse
11. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Abnormal psychology
Vulnerability
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Photoreceptors
12. Primary area for processing visual information
Operant Conditioning
chunks
pitch
occipital lobes
13. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
ions
Mainstreaming
Stimulus Discrimination
Projection
14. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad
Morality
Plateau phase
Adolescence
Placenta
15. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.
Aversive counterconditioning
structuralism
transfer appropriate processing
Mediation
16. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Repression
Paul Ekman
psychologist
17. Process by which a neutral stimulus takes on conditioned properties through pairing with a conditioned stimulus
psychoanalytic
sample
Higher-order Conditioning
Social Interest
18. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle
school psychologist
Anna Freud
Vulnerability
Rosenthal & Jacobson
19. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
Resilience
double-blind procedure
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
genotype
20. 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.
occipital lobes
Behavior therapy
Family therapy
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
21. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information
polygenic inheritance
Charles Darwin
Socrates
proactive interference
22. Sense of smell
olfaction
Schizophrenic disorders
Object permanence
Repression
23. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory
token economy
mutation
prenatal development
Observational Learning Theory
24. Creates a computerized image using a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
humanistic psychology
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
amnesia
25. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
Double-blind techniques
experiment
Counterconditioning
Sex
26. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.
Semantics
Superego
Generalized anxiety disorder
Sensation
27. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior
Reaction Formation
cognitive psychology
Motivation
Carl Jung
28. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
Lev Vygotsky
Attitudes
Psychoneuroimmunology
Rationalization
29. 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
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Zygote
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
30. 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
Concordance rate
selective attention
inferential statistics
Stanley Milgram
31. A division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions; made up of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
Conformity
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
autonomic nervous system
Systematic desensitization
32. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
scientific method
eclectic
David Weschler
Absolute threshold
33. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes
Demand characteristics
demand characteristics
Assessment
Latent Content
34. Memory; studied memorization of meaningless words
science
Phonology
Time-out
Hermann Ebbinghaus
35. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
transfer appropriate processing
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
debriefing
36. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
experimental group
chromosome
functional MRI (fMRI)
rehearsal
37. 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
Conflict
Bipolar disorder
Dissociative amnesia
38. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning
Classical Conditioning
Adolescence
Babinski reflex
Biofeedback
39. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
Saturation
acetylcholine (ACh)
unconscious
ethics
40. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
neuropsychologist
sympathetic nervous system
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Walter B. Cannon
41. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons
Hermann Ebbinghaus
afferent neuron nerve
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
John Garcia
42. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.
Placenta
Actor-observer Effect
Learned helplessness
Wilhelm Wundt
43. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
Burnout
antagonist
efferent neuron nerve
inhibitory neurotransmitter
44. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients
Gazzaniga or Sperry
parallel processing
Manifest Content
Major depressive disorder
45. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never
Bystander Effect
Robert Sternberg
hindbrain
Rosenhan
46. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
motor neurons
ex post facto study
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Zygote
47. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.
Divergent thinking
Phoneme
dopamine
prenatal development
48. The depth and richness of a hue determined by determined by the homogeneity of the wavelengths contained in the reflected light; also known as purity.
Saturation
Tolerance
Reactance
Bulimia Nervosa
49. Fixed - overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.
correlational research
Convergent thinking
Hobson & McCarley
Stereotypes
50. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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