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AP Psychology
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1. 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
working memory
Types
evolutionary psychology
corpus callosum
2. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.
health psychologist
interference
Double bind
endocrine system
3. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
Group therapy
Object permanence
pons
Spontaneous Recovery
4. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
Daniel Goleman
preconscious
episodic memory
measure of central tendency
5. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
Logic
split brain patients
Stanley Milgram
memory
6. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Expectancy Theories
Group Polarization
Syntax
7. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
interneurons
Anna Freud
Time-out
Gibson & Walk
8. Organizing sensory information so it can be processed by the nervous system
Electromagnetic Radiation
encoding
moral development
gustation
9. Areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions - rather - they are involved in higher mental processes such as thinking - planning - and communicating
Albert Ellis
Attitudes
association areas
aversive conditioning
10. 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
Fixation
gustation
Stanley Schachter
Albert Bandura
11. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment
Learning
brain
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
menopause
12. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments
Harry Stack Sullivan
Intelligence
behaviorism
Free association
13. 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
Leon Festinger
Withdrawal Symptoms
parasympathetic nervous system
14. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
inferential statistics
Imaginary Audience
parathormone
unconscious
15. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
Burnout
case study
Halo effect
16. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior
Extinction (operant conditioning)
twin studies
Harry Stack Sullivan
random sample
17. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
Concept
Bulimia Nervosa
neuropsychologist
refractory period
18. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
parallel processing
Color Blindness
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
measure of central tendency
19. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
triarchic theory of intelligence
Representative sample
endocrine system
self-actualization
20. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time
retrieval
Langer & Rodin
episodic memory
industrial/organizational psychologist
21. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.
Phillip Zimbardo
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Howard Gardner
Projective Tests
22. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
consolidation
Consciousness
memory
23. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
Robert Zajonc
bottom-up processing
rods
William Dement
24. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
limbic system
ex post facto study
Psychotherapy
Fulfillment
25. Pioneer in intelligence (IQ) tests - designed a test to identify slow learners in need of help-not applicable in the U.S. because it was too culture-bound (French)
neurotransmitters
hippocampus
Alfred Binet
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
26. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses
Skinner Box
photoreceptors
Prevalence
central nervous system
27. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion
Orgasm phase
encoding
Ekman & Friesen
range
28. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Percentile score
episodic memory
Personality disorders
Saccades
29. Ends of axons that secrete neurotransmitters
Appraisal
Ageism
dendrites
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
30. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.
cognitive psychology
Major depressive disorder
Sociobiology
Psychosurgery
31. Biologist; developed theory of evolution; transmutation of species - natural selection - evolution by common descent; 'The Origin of Species' catalogs his voyage on The Beagle
afferent neuron nerve
Harry Harlow
Representative sample
Charles Darwin
32. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands
Ideal Self
Resilience
behavioral genetics
median
33. Developed one of the first projective tests - the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story - the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary
Reactance
Hermann Rorschach
Jean Piaget
clinical psychologist
34. Small area of retina where image is focused
fovea
Standardization
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Bulimia Nervosa
35. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
neurogenesis
Ivan Pavlov
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Body Language
36. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior
genetics
Dependence
social psychologist
Emotion
37. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
Defense Mechanism
hypothesis
Carl Rogers
explicit memory
38. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
dopamine
Light
cornea
Sucking reflex
39. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision
Daniel Goleman
proactive interference
cones
maintenance rehearsal
40. Period of development from conception until birth
prenatal development
Rosenhan
Survey
agonist
41. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
hindbrain
fovea
neural impulse
Manifest Content
42. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
semantic memory
Aristotle
storage
Reinforcer
43. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory
retrieval
Token economy
sensory memory
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
44. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
Social Need
twin studies
recency effect
nature
45. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
gate control theory
Id
Karl Wernicke
46. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
timbre
adaptation
Stressor
operational definition
47. 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
Emotion
Reliability
elaborative rehearsal
Schema
48. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood
Adolescence
Excitement phase
ethics
pupil
49. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources
Specific phobia
Primary Reinforcer
Coping
Stress
50. The increase in sensitivity to light that occurs when the illumination level changes from high to low - causing chemicals in the rods and cones to regenerate and return to their inactive state.
Dark adaptation
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Gordon Allport
measure of central tendency