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AP Psychology
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1. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
Extrinsic motivation
long-term memory
Overjustification effect
Group
2. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand
Grasping reflex
Subliminal perception
Noam Chomsky
Tolerance
3. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
structuralism
Halo effect
Saccades
developmental psychologist
4. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle
consolidation
Ekman & Friesen
Descriptive Studies
Anna Freud
5. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.
Depressive disorders
(cerebral) cortex
Aaron Beck
fluid intelligence
6. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval
clinical psychologist
Debriefing
Fixed-interval Schedule
Syntax
7. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Trichromats
peripheral nervous system
Reasoning
8. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
Anorexia Nervosa
Socrates
declarative memory
Brainstorming
9. A test score that has not been transformed or converted in any way
authoritative parenting
triarchic theory of intelligence
Raw score
Client-centered therapy
10. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)
parathyroid
Model
Heritability
Myopic
11. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
Socrates
Robert Rosenthal
Gestalt psychology
mode
12. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Social Psychology
Unconditioned Response
Robert Rosenthal
hypothalamus
13. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
population
flashbulb memories
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
cognitive psychology
14. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
interneurons
family studies
Motive
significant difference
15. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
Collective Unconscious
aphasia
menopause
Repression
16. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Types
Light
binocular cues
Harry Stack Sullivan
17. According to Piaget - the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences
Accommodation
thalamus
Factor analysis
Psychoactive Drug
18. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses
Norms
Variable-ratio Schedule
inhibitory neurotransmitter
photoreceptors
19. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
psychology
Martin Seligman
Psychosurgery
20. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
introspection
fraternal twins
photoreceptors
21. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
Social Influence
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Dream
David McClelland
22. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
bulimia nervosa
Standardization
schema
receptor site
23. Process by which a neutral stimulus takes on conditioned properties through pairing with a conditioned stimulus
occipital lobes
selection studies
descriptive statistics
Higher-order Conditioning
24. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Higher-order Conditioning
norepinephrine
Nonverbal Communication
25. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Attitudes
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
school psychologist
ethics
26. Bundles of axons
Raw score
nerve
memory
imagery
27. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech
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28. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)
Psychodynamically
Wechsler intelligence tests
Wernicke's area
top-down processing
29. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones
Stereotypes
Phineas Gage
retina
Creativity
30. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
retrieval
David Weschler
Concrete operational stage
Little Albert
31. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
interneurons
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Brightness
Rape
32. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters
Norms
interference
synaptic vesicles
Signal Detection Theory
33. The process by which individuals lose their self-awareness and distinctive personality in the context of a group - which may lead them to engage in antinormative behavior.
Deindividuation
Primary Reinforcer
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Prejudice
34. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
Drive
Noam Chomsky
autonomic nervous system
memory
35. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response
introspection
sensory memory
Skinner Box
authoritative parenting
36. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
Babinski reflex
William Dement
Drive
Conformity
37. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision
psychoanalyst
cones
Learning
Morpheme
38. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
correlation coefficient
hindbrain
Algorithm
Self
39. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
Edward Thorndike
implicit memory
Spontaneous Recovery
Stereotypes
40. Experience of the difference threshold
Drug
just noticeable difference (JND)
Size constancy
Conditioned Response
41. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.
experiment
Impression Formation
insulin
Photoreceptors
42. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
crystallized intelligence
nerve
Francis Galton
monism
43. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
myelin sheath
Social Need
educational psychologist
Schema
44. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
Excitement phase
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Negative Reinforcement
Health psychology
45. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness
behavior
preconscious
brainstem
Leon Festinger
46. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism
Aristotle
Collective Unconscious
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Oedipus Complex
47. A person's sense of being male or female
central nervous system
visual acuity
Drive
Gender Identity
48. Threadlike structure within the nucleus of cells that contain genes
normal distribution
Orgasm phase
chromosome
Electromagnetic Radiation
49. Retrieval cues that match original information work better
working memory
sensory adaptation
Phillip Zimbardo
encoding specificity principle
50. Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation - they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.
Health psychology
excitatory neurotransmitter
Superego
John Garcia