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AP Psychology
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1. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
Blood-Brain Barrier
Logic
experiment
Stress
2. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series
encoding
recency effect
informed consent
Assessment
3. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
occipital lobes
Embryo
Schizophrenic disorders
Genital Stage
4. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior
Withdrawal Symptoms
parasympathetic nervous system
shaping
Longitudinal Study
5. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
descriptive statistics
neuron
response bias
Heritability
6. Automatic behavior that occurs involuntarily in response to a stimulus and without prior learning and usually shows little variability from instance to instance
Reflex
psychology
Ageism
sensory adaptation
7. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
Color Blindness
Superstitious Behavior
Depressive disorders
Group
8. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after predetermined but varying amounts of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once after each interval
Variable-interval Schedule
Gender Identity
split brain patients
Descriptive Studies
9. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
dopamine
dendrites
somatic nervous system
strain studies
10. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea
gonads
Object permanence
David Rosenhan
retrograde amnesia
11. A therapy that is based on the application of learning principles to human behavior and that focuses on changing overt behaviors rather than on understanding subjective feelings - unconscious processes - or motivations; also known as behavior modific
Darley & Latane
genetics
Orgasm phase
Behavior therapy
12. An explanation of behavior that emphasizes the entirety of life rather than individual components of behavior and focuses on human dignity - individual choice - and self-worth
Humanistic theory
Cognitive Dissonance
Panic Attack
Ivan Pavlov
13. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
Holmes & Rahe
lens
Psychodynamically
Representative sample
14. Depth cues that are based on one eye
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
resting potential
monocular cues
operational definition
15. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
theory
rods
psychiatrist
pitch
16. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
spinal cord
Representative sample
Anna Freud
Health psychology
17. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
Fundamental Attribution Error
functionalism
Self-actualization
Wilhelm Wundt
18. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.
peripheral nervous system
Insight therapy
Social Psychology
Working through
19. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Darley & Latane
peripheral nervous system
Erik Erikson
René Descartes
20. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.
antagonist
control group
imagery
Reasoning
21. A number that expresses the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables - ranging from -1 to +1
Francis Galton
Grammar
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
correlation coefficient
22. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.
explicit memory
Naturalistic observation
Ideal Self
hypnosis
23. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
Genital Stage
interneurons
Variable-ratio Schedule
Social Loafing
24. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic value for an organism but that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer
Survey
social psychologist
Secondary Reinforcer
Fundamental Attribution Error
25. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
Debriefing
Rationalization
Group therapy
Aversive counterconditioning
26. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
functional MRI (fMRI)
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
27. Style of parenting marked by emotional coldness - imposing rules and expecting obedience
authoritarian parenting
visual acuity
brainstem
behavioral genetics
28. Study of the brain and nervous system; overlaps with psychobiology
neuroscience
amnesia
vestibular sense
Saccades
29. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; criticized Freud - stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses - rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts - neurotic trends; concept of 'basic anxiety'
monocular cues
Trichromats
functionalism
Karen Horney
30. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
frequency distribution
introspection
polarization
hindbrain
31. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Higher-order Conditioning
Formal operational stage
Jean Piaget
Bulimia Nervosa
32. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
Self-efficacy
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
kinesthesis
Holmes & Rahe
33. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law
self-actualization
naturalistic observation
Ernst Weber
Trichromatic theory
34. Humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization - transcendence
interneurons
Insomnia
Abraham Maslow
functional MRI (fMRI)
35. An insight therapy - developed be Carl Rogers - that seeks to help people evaluate the world and themselves from their own perspective by providing them with a nondirective environment and unconditional positive regard; also known as person-centered
Higher-order Conditioning
Client-centered therapy
explicit memory
Concept
36. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings
Elizabeth Loftus
Halo effect
Leon Festinger
psychologist
37. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume
Conservation
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Interpretation
nature
38. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
dopamine
Language
Divergent thinking
Walter B. Cannon
39. Elements of an experimental situation that might cause a participant to perceive the situation in a certain way or become aware of the purpose of the study and thus bias the participant to behave in a certain way - and in so doing - distort results.
descriptive statistics
Demand characteristics
Denial
Latency Stage
40. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
Bonding
nature-nurture controversy
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Child abuse
41. Theory that holds that an observer's perception depends not only on the intensity of a stimulus but also on the observer's motivation - the criteria he or she sets for determining that a signal is present - and on the background noise.
Signal Detection Theory
Visual cortex
forebrain
receptor site
42. Prejudice against the elderly and the resulting discrimination against them
Projection
Ageism
Punishment
control group
43. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
Dark adaptation
frequency distribution
peripheral nervous system
unconscious
44. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
Withdrawal Symptoms
Trichromats
Overjustification effect
Concept
45. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place
autonomic nervous system
forensic psychologist
experimental group
nervous system
46. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
Drug
Law of Effect
Gender Schema Theory
limbic system
47. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement
Solomon Asch
Stressor
(cerebral) cortex
long-term memory
48. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
insulin
Prejudice
survey research
frontal lobes
49. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
Functional fixedness
Rationalization
photoreceptors
Representative sample
50. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
elaborative rehearsal
experimental group
Teratogen
counseling psychologist