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AP Psychology
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1. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems
psychoanalyst
Self-actualization
Ex Post Facto Design
Approach-avoidance conflict
2. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place
Teratogen
nervous system
psychometrician
industrial/organizational psychologist
3. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
Sucking reflex
Longitudinal Study
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Algorithm
4. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions
triarchic theory of intelligence
Photoreceptors
synapse
Time-out
5. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
Phineas Gage
Placebo effect
Brightness
variability
6. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.
Karl Wernicke
Superego
Transference
rehearsal
7. The inability to perceive different hues.
Drug
epinephrine
Primary Reinforcer
Color Blindness
8. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
rods
Carol Gilligan
Francis Galton
Stimulus Generalization
9. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
Trait
sensory adaptation
Problem Solving
monism
10. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)
statistics
Wechsler intelligence tests
Type B behavior
Mary Ainsworth
11. In emerging Theo psychology that focuses on positive experiences; includes subjective well-being - self-determination - the relationship between positive emotions and physical health - and the factors that allow individuals - communities - and societ
Temperament
recency effect
positive psychology
Variable-ratio Schedule
12. An individual who takes part in an experiment and whose behavior is observed as part of the data collection process
cerebellum
participant
Gender Schema Theory
Zajonc & Markus
13. 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
parathormone
Thanatology
Personality disorders
Hermann Rorschach
14. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.
Groupthink
Need
Antisocial personality disorder
retroactive interference
15. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life
Reflex
Naturalistic observation
Lewis Terman
Gender Identity
16. Ends of axons that secrete neurotransmitters
Noam Chomsky
Morality
parathormone
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
17. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning
Substance Abuser
Backward search
Phineas Gage
Socrates
18. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
Longitudinal Study
lens
Heuristics
Means-ends analysis
19. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.
statistics
occipital lobes
Concept
Abnormal psychology
20. The time in to development of an organism when it is especially sensitive to certain environmental influences; outside of that period the same influences will have far less effect
Delusions
Group therapy
Critical Period
endocrine system
21. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
statistics
Equity Theory
motor projection areas
Herman von Helmholtz
22. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
Burnout
Behavior therapy
cochlea
motivated forgetting
23. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.
Phonology
synapse
Bipolar disorder
graded potential
24. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
Syntax
Superstitious Behavior
Gibson & Walk
Monochromats
25. In psychoanalysis - an unwillingness to cooperate - which a patient signals by showing a reluctance to provide the therapist with information or to help the therapist understand or interpret a situation.
Resistance
Accommodation
Egocentrism
Anal Stage
26. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it
representative sample
Motive
Reinforcer
dendrites
27. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
Systematic desensitization
Cognitive Dissonance
implicit memory
timbre
28. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
mode
Variable-ratio Schedule
retrieval
ex post facto study
29. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
Abnormal psychology
parallel processing
Homeostasis
Karl Wernicke
30. A test designed to predict a person's future performance
aptitude test
maintenance rehearsal
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
convolutions
31. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
strain studies
Phineas Gage
gate control theory
32. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.
Group
Conformity
split brain patients
Resistance
33. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.
Masters & Johnson
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Fixation
Assessment
34. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech
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35. 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
Harry Harlow
Noam Chomsky
authoritative parenting
Double bind
36. Sense of smell
schema
olfaction
difference threshold
school psychologist
37. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Karl Wernicke
Representative sample
Robert Zajonc
Edward Bradford Titchener
38. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
experimenter bias
Systematic desensitization
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
neural plasticity
39. The highness or lowness of a sound
imagery
theory
Projection
pitch
40. Ability of the visual perceptual system to recognize that an object remains constant in size regardless of its distance from the observer or the size of its image on the retina.
hypothesis
Personality
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Size constancy
41. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
inhibitory neurotransmitter
adrenal glands
Longitudinal Study
Trichromats
42. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary
survey research
Gordon Allport
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
frequency
43. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.
Albert Bandura
Law of Effect
Psychotherapy
set point
44. Motivation; believed that gastric activity as in empty stomach - was the sole basis for hunger; did research that inserted balloons in stomachs
Broca's area
Walter B. Cannon
Androgynous
behaviorism
45. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory
Dissociative disorders
retrieval
hormone
Cognitive theories
46. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.
synapse
Rational-emotive therapy
Reinforcer
Jean Piaget
47. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.
recessive gene
Antisocial personality disorder
Kurt Lewin
Unconscious
48. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
cones
Denial
Vasocongestion
Puberty
49. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
normal distribution
Subgoal analysis
selective attention
Debriefing
50. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
debriefing
Visual cortex
Little Albert
Law of Effect