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AP Psychology
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1. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
selection studies
hormone
Halo effect
Token economy
2. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad
Morality
Child abuse
preconscious
Classical Conditioning
3. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
Unconditioned Response
Normal curve
measure of central tendency
William Dement
4. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
Id
dependent variable
corpus callosum
Substance Abuser
5. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
survey research
Observational Learning Theory
6. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
Ego
Psychotic
health psychologist
action potential
7. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
Edward Bradford Titchener
motor projection areas
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
hypothalamus
8. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'
Projective Tests
pituitary gland
Dark adaptation
Gender
9. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
binocular cues
Latent Learning
Hue
Abnormal Behavior
10. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.
Psychotherapy
recessive gene
John Locke
Heuristics
11. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions
Ivan Pavlov
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Tolerance
emotional intelligence
12. Bundles of axons
zone of proximal development
nerve
retrieval
all-or-none principle
13. 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
Emotion
Herman von Helmholtz
Fixed-interval Schedule
lens
14. Response to the belief that the IV will have an effect - rather than the IV's actual effect - which can be a confounding variable
Saturation
Francis Galton
Schizophrenic disorders
placebo effect
15. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness
Variable-ratio Schedule
Egocentrism
conventional level of moral development
Ex Post Facto Design
16. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
sound localization
Coping
Rooting reflex
Judith Langlois
17. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
Rationalization
Dissociative identity disorder
synaptic cleft
Regression
18. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.
Double bind
Thanatology
Solomon Asch
retina
19. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
explicit memory
Group Polarization
neuron
Leon Festinger
20. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
Learning
visual acuity
motor projection areas
operational definition
21. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
serotonin
Socrates
Androgynous
Model
22. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.
cochlea
Means-ends analysis
Naturalistic observation
rods
23. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
Archetypes
Circadian Rhythms
refractory period
theory
24. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
Drive
developmental psychologist
Syntax
preconventional level of moral development
25. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Ernst Weber
Abnormal psychology
Displacement
chromosome
26. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Humanistic theory
Approach-approach conflict
triarchic theory of intelligence
Little Albert
27. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.
Repression
Broca's area
recessive gene
Trait
28. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes
Type A behavior
DNA
experimenter bias
semantic memory
29. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
Negative Reinforcement
Hermann Ebbinghaus
retrograde amnesia
agonist
30. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
psychiatrist
Altruism
Aaron Beck
science
31. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
recessive gene
Abnormal Behavior
Longitudinal Study
Benjamin Whorf
32. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.
Collective Unconscious
Bystander Effect
psychobiology
Social Loafing
33. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose
Subliminal perception
Need
response bias
central nervous system
34. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
monism
memory span
excitatory neurotransmitter
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
35. Period of development from conception until birth
prenatal development
Wolpe
Schema
Appraisal
36. The biochemical processes that make it easier for the neuron to respond again when it has been stimulated
corpus callosum
long-term potentiation
graded potential
Social Categorization
37. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
frequency distribution
Monochromats
monocular cues
38. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
observer bias
Phobic disorders
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
motor projection areas
39. An individual who takes part in an experiment and whose behavior is observed as part of the data collection process
participant
Token economy
polygenic inheritance
Learned helplessness
40. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
thyroid gland
frontal lobes
Survey
Mary Ainsworth
41. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
rods
procedural memory
receptor site
strain studies
42. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment
Drug
Variable-interval Schedule
Moro reflex
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
43. A mass of tissue that is attached to the wall f the uterus and connected to the developing fetus by the umbilical cord; it supplies nutrients and eliminates waste products
hippocampus
Placenta
functionalism
psychometrician
44. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)
percentile score
Daniel Goleman
blind spot
Placebo effect
45. Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of - and desire to avoid - situations in which the person might be exposed to scrutiny by others and might behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way.
hormone
Social phobia
set point
Psychodynamically
46. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.
genotype
audition
Intelligence
Aaron Beck
47. A test designed to predict a person's future performance
aptitude test
Self
Logic
recency effect
48. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met
Stanley Milgram
Dependence
selection studies
informed consent
49. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses
Gender Schema Theory
Conflict
occipital lobes
Bulimia Nervosa
50. A need or want that causes someone to act
Oral Stage
Vasocongestion
Transference
motive