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AP Psychology
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1. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.
Antisocial personality disorder
gustation
nonconscious
Specific phobia
2. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
Norms
Collective Unconscious
Shaping
Type A behavior
3. Ends of axons that secrete neurotransmitters
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
Appraisal
Case study
Percentile score
4. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics
Bystander Effect
Need
implicit memory
Case study
5. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones
amnesia
David Rosenhan
retina
synaptic vesicles
6. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving
token economy
Carl Jung
Regression
Self-actualization
7. 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.
Psychotherapy
parathyroid
gate control theory
Size constancy
8. 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)
adrenal glands
evolutionary psychology
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Impression Formation
9. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups
Elizabeth Loftus
Dissociative amnesia
Concordance rate
Transference
10. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
Walter B. Cannon
receptor site
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Motivation
11. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
Dark adaptation
postconventional level of moral development
Phineas Gage
habituation
12. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
Rosenhan
Edward Bradford Titchener
Ekman & Friesen
Interpersonal Attraction
13. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
Gender
Trichromatic theory
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Hyperopic
14. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
self-fulfilling prophecy
Psycholinguistics
Raymond Cattell
Phineas Gage
15. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.
memory
Bipolar disorder
operational definition
natural selection
16. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time
Type A behavior
(cerebral) cortex
Embryo
Personal Fable
17. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Body Language
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Backward search
functionalism
18. Process by which a conditioned response becomes associated with a stimulus that is similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus
insulin
Superego
Stimulus Generalization
psychiatrist
19. Neutral stimulus that - through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus - begins to elicit a conditioned response
Conditioned Stimulus
ethnocentrism
René Descartes
Social Cognition
20. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards
token economy
motivated forgetting
Social phobia
schema
21. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
gustation
Walter B. Cannon
Attachment
instinct
22. 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.
memory span
Temperament
Latent Content
Demand characteristics
23. Process in which the sense organs' receptor cells are stimulated and relay initial information to higher brain centers for further processing.
Fixed-interval Schedule
Sensation
cones
somatic nervous system
24. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
Overjustification effect
social psychologist
Sociobiology
Signal Detection Theory
25. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
Dementia
Light
selection studies
Fixed-ratio Schedule
26. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)
blind spot
Lev Vygotsky
Double-blind techniques
Consciousness
27. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
Dichromats
action potential
Self-actualization
Superego
28. Does research on how people function best with machines
Ideal Self
Color Blindness
engineering psychologist
graded potential
29. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.
Burnout
audition
Social Influence
clinical psychologist
30. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.
Stimulant
Creativity
Stimulus Discrimination
Prevalence
31. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.
Thanatology
Higher-order Conditioning
Darley & Latane
Cognitive Psychology
32. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
hypothalamus
Primary Punisher
primacy effect
instinct
33. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
double-blind procedure
Anxiety
genetics
Psychotic
34. Sense of smell
Premack principle
olfaction
Bipolar disorder
ions
35. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream
Manifest Content
developmental psychologist
Problem Solving
Gender stereotype
36. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep
science
Elizabeth Loftus
Insomnia
Secondary Reinforcer
37. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
Need
Hermann Ebbinghaus
mutation
Anxiety
38. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
sports psychologist
Collective Unconscious
Fixed-interval Schedule
axon terminal
39. 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
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus
neural impulse
Emotion
40. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
brain
William Sheldon
semantic memory
Elizabeth Loftus
41. 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).
Genital Stage
Need for achievement
Brightness
spinal cord
42. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.
dependent variable
Dream analysis
Embryo
Social Cognition
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
functional MRI (fMRI)
Object permanence
Psycholinguistics
Placenta
44. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
Teratogen
semantic memory
Token economy
self-fulfilling prophecy
45. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
Grasping reflex
Solomon Asch
Regression
identical twins
46. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.
Cross-sectional study
(cerebral) cortex
forebrain
Photoreceptors
47. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
debriefing
Self-perception Theory
Naturalistic observation
Lewis Terman
48. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory
Masters & Johnson
demand characteristics
Robert Rosenthal
retrieval
49. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events
Sensorimotor stage
Unconditioned Stimulus
chromosome
behavioral genetics
50. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
Intelligence
Gender Schema Theory
Residual type of schizophrenia
population