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AP Psychology
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1. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)
William James
William Sheldon
Learning
authoritarian parenting
2. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
aversive conditioning
Thanatology
mutation
correlation coefficient
3. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
corpus callosum
Rationalization
4. A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable behavior.
Descriptive Studies
Aversive counterconditioning
Working through
Robert Yerkes
5. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
Behavior therapy
Schema
Personality
Object permanence
6. Style of parenting marked by emotional coldness - imposing rules and expecting obedience
bottom-up processing
authoritarian parenting
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Preoperational stage
7. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time
Motivation
Longitudinal Study
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Displacement
8. 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
Abraham Maslow
Prejudice
Tolman
Preoperational stage
9. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
Raw score
Leon Festinger
Morpheme
nonconscious
10. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
visual acuity
positive psychology
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Longitudinal Study
11. The process by which the location of sound is determined
authoritarian parenting
limbic system
sound localization
Reactance
12. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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13. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
Primary Reinforcer
Superstitious Behavior
Harry Harlow
Babinski reflex
14. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
neuron
spinal cord
motor neurons
Conformity
15. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal
Size constancy
Operant Conditioning
James-Lange theory of emotion
schema
16. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
experimental group
Prevalence
Phineas Gage
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
17. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
Defense Mechanism
thalamus
percentile score
Robert Yerkes
18. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives
science
Family therapy
Approach-approach conflict
Rosenthal & Jacobson
19. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.
Problem Solving
preconventional level of moral development
Libido
declarative memory
20. Pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning) - stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls - children mimicked play
Social Categorization
excitatory neurotransmitter
Rationalization
Albert Bandura
21. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving
Excitement phase
Self-actualization
Carl Jung
zone of proximal development
22. Conditioning in which an increase or decrease in the probability that a behavior will recur is affected by the delivery of reinforcement or punishment as a consequence of the behavior;
Psychoanalysis
episodic memory
Operant Conditioning
refractory period
23. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
normal distribution
limbic system
Subliminal perception
Learned Helplessness
24. Occurs when recall is better for a distinctive item - even if it occurs in the middle of a list
Fulfillment
levels-of-processing approach
Von Restorff effect
thyroid gland
25. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
binocular cues
memory
operational definition
Anna O.
26. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
maintenance rehearsal
Variable-interval Schedule
mode
Burnout
27. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
procedural memory
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Henry Murray
Libido
28. Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information - usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.
correlation coefficient
Dissociative amnesia
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Latency Stage
29. In psychoanalysis - an unwillingness to cooperate - which a patient signals by showing a reluctance to provide the therapist with information or to help the therapist understand or interpret a situation.
set point
Raw score
Classical Conditioning
Resistance
30. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
Social Cognition
frequency
Fetus
Primary Punisher
31. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
informed consent
Linguistics
Receptive fields
Wilhelm Wundt
32. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes
normal distribution
optic nerve
Stimulus Generalization
heritability
33. Perspective that seeks to explain and predict behaviors by analyzing how the human brain developed over time - how it functions - and how input from the environment affects human behaviors
cones
Wilhelm Wundt
evolutionary psychology
Anna O.
34. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat
Brightness
Prejudice
John B Watson
Phineas Gage
35. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
Schizophrenic disorders
Overjustification effect
Premack principle
Fixation
36. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts
parietal lobes
demand characteristics
hypothesis
Self-serving Bias
37. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
random sample
Rationalization
Mary Ainsworth
recency effect
38. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Bystander Effect
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Intelligence
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
39. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
response bias
Regression
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
convolutions
40. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
psychometrician
Morpheme
Denial
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
41. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
human genomes
long-term memory
Androgynous
William James
42. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.
Stanley Milgram
Major depressive disorder
Transference
token economy
43. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
measure of central tendency
transfer appropriate processing
Conflict
Socrates
44. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
Learned helplessness
Standard score
human genomes
Phineas Gage
45. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results
Temperament
self-fulfilling prophecy
Burnout
Unconscious
46. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
placebo effect
William Dement
Social Facilitation
Altruism
47. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
Phoneme
Walter B. Cannon
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Hans Eysenck
48. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm
midbrain
Consciousness
Plateau phase
independent variable
49. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.
sports psychologist
Social Cognition
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Behavior therapy
50. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
descriptive statistics
behavioral genetics
hormone
forensic psychologist