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AP Psychology
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1. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
correlational research
Monochromats
Stimulus Discrimination
functional MRI (fMRI)
2. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment
Representative sample
Extrinsic motivation
Fundamental Attribution Error
nature-nurture controversy
3. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.
Discrimination
Debriefing
semantic memory
Fundamental Attribution Error
4. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
Representative sample
dualism
Karl Wernicke
Robert Sternberg
5. 'Wernicke's area'; discovered area of left temporal lobe that involved language understanding: person damaged in this area uses correct words but they do not make sense
Decision making
binocular cues
Electromagnetic Radiation
Karl Wernicke
6. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose
William James
self-fulfilling prophecy
Hans Eysenck
response bias
7. The brain and spinal cord
Equity Theory
central nervous system
Orgasm phase
Logic
8. Shift in electrical charge in a tiny area of the neuron (temporary); transmits a long cell membranes leaving neuron and polarized state; needs higher than normal threshold of excitation to fire
pitch
mode
graded potential
range
9. The human need to fulfill one's potential
Edward Bradford Titchener
Subliminal perception
serotonin
self-actualization
10. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes
percentile score
Representative sample
neurotransmitters
heritability
11. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Konrad Lorenz
Attributions
descriptive statistics
experiment
12. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
anterograde amnesia
Conformity
thalamus
dualism
13. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
instinct
Negative Reinforcement
Longitudinal Study
Drug
14. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
frontal lobes
sample
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Divergent thinking
15. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
naturalistic observation
Stimulus Discrimination
Ideal Self
observer bias
16. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
Carol Gilligan
maintenance rehearsal
mean
Elizabeth Loftus
17. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
Object permanence
Sucking reflex
Unconscious
mutation
18. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -
evolutionary psychology
memory span
Dissociative amnesia
Self-actualization
19. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Debriefing
Semantics
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
evolutionary psychology
20. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
levels-of-processing approach
selection studies
21. Synaptic gap or synaptic space; tiny gap between the terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron (almost never touch); location of the transfer of an impulse from one neuron to the next
synaptic cleft
Specific phobia
ethnocentrism
double-blind procedure
22. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.
Need for achievement
significant difference
Working through
EEG (electroencephalogram)
23. Neurotransmitter that inhibits firing of neurons; linked with Huntington's disease
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
fovea
Consciousness
Dementia
24. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons
Double bind
phenotype
B.F. Skinner
Broca's area
25. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information
proactive interference
Heritability
B.F. Skinner
ions
26. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Circadian Rhythms
hypothalamus
hindbrain
27. The expression of genes
memory
phenotype
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Resistance
28. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood
decay
corpus callosum
Stimulant
Cross-sectional study
29. A test score that has not been transformed or converted in any way
Latency Stage
Edward Thorndike
Raw score
Consciousness
30. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
adaptation
Self-actualization
Mainstreaming
chromosome
31. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they believe they are so special and unique that other people cannot understand them and risky behaviors will not harm them
nature-nurture controversy
Personal Fable
Rape
neuron
32. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness
Carol Gilligan
Prototype
neuroscience
Egocentrism
33. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
Latent Learning
Grasping reflex
Decision making
instinct
34. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill
Abnormal psychology
placebo
(cerebral) cortex
Gazzaniga or Sperry
35. 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
excitatory neurotransmitter
Placenta
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Unconditioned Response
36. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus
storage
Wechsler intelligence tests
Conditioned Response
Benjamin Whorf
37. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.
identical twins
Theory of mind
endocrine glands
Reasoning
38. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Backward search
gustation
all-or-none principle
39. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.
Transduction
brainstem
resting potential
epinephrine
40. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics
polarization
state-dependent learning
representative sample
Psychophysics
41. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception
Secondary Sex Characteristics
bottom-up processing
Egocentrism
John B Watson
42. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening
Lucid Dream
Depressive disorders
interference
Cognitive theories
43. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.
Social Categorization
Displacement
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
efferent neuron nerve
44. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Representative sample
Kurt Lewin
Personal Fable
Personality
45. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience
Psychoanalysis
(cerebral) cortex
Excitement phase
imagery
46. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input
Zajonc & Markus
ESP
cones
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
47. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles
Need
parallel processing
Phillip Zimbardo
empiricism
48. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
synapse
Cognitive Dissonance
Experimental design
Approach-approach conflict
49. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
Algorithm
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Rape
Trichromats
50. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
inferential statistics
Skinner Box
Symptom substitution
developmental psychologist