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AP Psychology
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1. Released by thyroid; hormone that regulates the body's metabolism; OVERACTIVE-over-excitability - insomnia - reduced attention span - fatigue - snap decisions - reduced concentration (hyperthyroidism); UNDERACTIVE-desire to sleep - constantly tired -
thyroxine
brainstem
Gender Identity
psychology
2. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input
Ex Post Facto Design
ESP
demand characteristics
Dichromats
3. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it
Reinforcer
independent variable
ex post facto study
hindbrain
4. Automatic behavior that occurs involuntarily in response to a stimulus and without prior learning and usually shows little variability from instance to instance
Judith Langlois
autonomic nervous system
Symptom substitution
Reflex
5. The tendency for one characteristic of an individual to influence a tester's evaluation of other characteristics
parathyroid
Halo effect
neuropsychologist
informed consent
6. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
developmental psychologist
strain studies
Token economy
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
7. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
Divergent thinking
decay
Anal Stage
experiment
8. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
confounding variable
theory
Visual cortex
Superego
9. Rules of proper and acceptable conduct that investigators use to guide psychological research
ethics
Specific phobia
median
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
10. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
Brightness
Fundamental Attribution Error
split brain patients
Ernst Weber
11. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction
Rationalization
cochlea
Imaginary Audience
Fixed-ratio Schedule
12. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
Preoperational stage
Cognitive Psychology
Photoreceptors
Bonding
13. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
aversive conditioning
olfaction
Intelligence
Self-perception Theory
14. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.
procedural memory
Self-serving Bias
Babinski reflex
Sex
15. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
Teratogen
family studies
Stress
Color Blindness
16. Emotional intelligence
Daniel Goleman
sociocultural psychology
Major depressive disorder
insulin
17. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments
behaviorism
demand characteristics
Spontaneous Recovery
Wechsler intelligence tests
18. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
Conformity
Convergent thinking
Critical Period
set point
19. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
Archetypes
strain studies
Cross-sectional Studies
Functional fixedness
20. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
Charles Darwin
Algorithm
neuroscience
Abnormal Behavior
21. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
retrograde amnesia
menarche
Observational Learning Theory
debriefing
22. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
Subliminal perception
Health psychology
nervous system
Ageism
23. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
Myopic
memory span
Placebo effect
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
24. Freud's first stage of personality development - from birth to about age 2 - during which the instincts of infants are focused on the mouth as the primary pleasure center.
Gordon Allport
Oral Stage
Electromagnetic Radiation
Libido
25. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically
Homeostasis
Preoperational stage
ethics
schema
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
Dissociative identity disorder
Self-efficacy
selection studies
educational psychologist
27. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
autonomic nervous system
consolidation
Type B behavior
Psychodynamically
28. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
introspection
Gibson & Walk
storage
Rosenthal & Jacobson
29. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)
Albert Bandura
kinesthesis
Robert Sternberg
Specific phobia
30. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
cohort effect
Carl Rogers
Superstitious Behavior
Debriefing
31. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
insulin
Motive
Latency Stage
Abnormal Behavior
32. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.
Fixed-interval Schedule
Subgoal analysis
Antisocial personality disorder
Gender stereotype
33. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
Receptive fields
menopause
motivated forgetting
Sublimation
34. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
episodic memory
survey research
Impression Formation
Temperament
35. In Roger's theory of personality - the perception an individual has of himself or herself and of his or her relationships to other people and to various aspects of life.
Plateau phase
Shaping
Self
Wernicke's area
36. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
Ivan Pavlov
Specific phobia
motor neurons
Groupthink
37. A state of mental discomfort arising from a discrepancy between two or more of a person's beliefs or between a person's beliefs and overt behavior.
postconventional level of moral development
pituitary gland
Cognitive Dissonance
transfer appropriate processing
38. Number of wavelengths that pass a point in a given amount of time; determines hue of light and the pitch of a sound
Expectancy Theories
frequency
John Locke
Social Need
39. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes
endocrine system
Metal retardation
Ego
Dependence
40. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
imagery
Phonology
Harry Stack Sullivan
receptor site
41. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
survey research
Abnormal psychology
limbic system
Zajonc & Markus
42. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.
Prosocial Behavior
Dementia
Abnormal psychology
aptitude test
43. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned
clinical psychologist
inferential statistics
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Primary Reinforcer
44. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
Approach-avoidance conflict
Gestalt psychology
Dissociative identity disorder
Tolerance
45. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
Judith Langlois
Developmental Psychology
retina
axon
46. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
motor neurons
Drug
selective attention
aphasia
47. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
myelin sheath
neurogenesis
mean
axon
48. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream
Approach-avoidance conflict
bulimia nervosa
introspection
Manifest Content
49. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
refractory period
Problem Solving
mean
kinesthesis
50. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities
hormone
Hyperopic
Kurt Lewin
Holmes & Rahe