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AP Psychology
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1. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.
participant
Child abuse
empiricism
Law of Effect
2. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Konrad Lorenz
Free association
Anna O.
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
3. Period of development from conception until birth
Dissociative identity disorder
prenatal development
interneurons
Gibson & Walk
4. 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
parasympathetic nervous system
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
thyroxine
Personal Fable
5. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
Excitement phase
Circadian Rhythms
acetylcholine (ACh)
Wilhelm Wundt
6. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma
Preconscious
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Stimulus Discrimination
frontal lobes
7. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
Latent Learning
science
Need for achievement
aversive conditioning
8. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
normal distribution
Aristotle
Ego
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
9. The extent to which scores differ from one another
variability
sound localization
social psychologist
Reflex
10. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
Self-perception Theory
Standard score
Motivation
just noticeable difference (JND)
11. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
Wernicke's area
case study
schema
semantic memory
12. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
Nonverbal Communication
Regression
Self-efficacy
synaptic cleft
13. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
William Sheldon
recessive gene
Embryo
dependent variable
14. Process by which a neutral stimulus takes on conditioned properties through pairing with a conditioned stimulus
Edward Thorndike
Higher-order Conditioning
Need for achievement
Conditioned Stimulus
15. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
Subliminal perception
Descriptive Studies
parallel processing
timbre
16. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
unconscious
Validity
Psychodynamically
Ivan Pavlov
17. 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
Lev Vygotsky
genotype
pseudoscience
Representative sample
18. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
Babinski reflex
standard deviation
Regression
explicit memory
19. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.
Displacement
interference
parietal lobes
Metal retardation
20. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
Need for achievement
Self-perception Theory
Conditioning
Personality
21. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
amnesia
sound localization
statistics
synaptic cleft
22. 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
Morality
Teratogen
Conservation
Tolerance
23. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory
Observational Learning Theory
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Halo effect
psychometrician
24. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed
humanistic psychology
split brain patients
forensic psychologist
Aristotle
25. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ on an important dimension
Cross-sectional study
mode
Trichromatic theory
Appraisal
26. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit
hindbrain
Dissociative identity disorder
naturalistic observation
Hyperopic
27. A therapy that is based on the application of learning principles to human behavior and that focuses on changing overt behaviors rather than on understanding subjective feelings - unconscious processes - or motivations; also known as behavior modific
Behavior therapy
frequency distribution
Fixed-interval Schedule
hippocampus
28. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments
receptor site
central nervous system
behaviorism
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
29. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception
Group
bottom-up processing
psychology
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
30. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
Actor-observer Effect
top-down processing
normal distribution
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
31. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time
Equity Theory
episodic memory
Concept
memory span
32. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants
Paul Ekman
Counterconditioning
Premack principle
Self-fulfilling prophecy
33. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment
thalamus
Attributions
William James
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
34. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
Stressor
authoritative parenting
Self-serving Bias
Factor analysis
35. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
ethics
Anna O.
Carl Jung
René Descartes
36. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.
Schema
insulin
phenotype
Syntax
37. 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.
Psychotic
motor projection areas
Saturation
Erik Erikson
38. The study of the lifelong - often age-related - processes of change in the physical - cognitive - moral - emotional - and social domains of functioning; such changes are rooted in biological mechanisms that are genetically controlled - as well as in
Developmental Psychology
positive psychology
introspection
ethics
39. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
Problem Solving
Anxiety
hypothesis
William James
40. Graphical record of brain-wave activity obtained through electrodes placed on the scalp and forehead
engineering psychologist
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Hobson & McCarley
David McClelland
41. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Phineas Gage
long-term memory
instinct
42. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
Concept
Aaron Beck
population
Hans Eysenck
43. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints
Decentration
Stimulant
Grammar
Intimacy
44. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Phillip Zimbardo
independent variable
Saccades
45. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
pseudoscience
Reasoning
crystallized intelligence
refractory period
46. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
double-blind procedure
chromosome
Saturation
engineering psychologist
47. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
theory
gene
Extinction (operant conditioning)
recessive gene
48. 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
Shaping
gate control theory
Coping
49. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream
neuron
zone of proximal development
Manifest Content
Fetus
50. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.
nerve
parietal lobes
Self-serving Bias
Judith Langlois