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AP Psychology
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1. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Zajonc & Markus
selective attention
authoritarian parenting
2. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Consciousness
pineal gland
Nonverbal Communication
Konrad Lorenz
3. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.
Syntax
Alzheimer's Disease
Prototype
Premack principle
4. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Langer & Rodin
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Brightness
mutation
5. Humanistic psychology; Contributions: founded client-centered therapy - theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth - unconditional positive regard -
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
schema
Carl Rogers
Schema
6. Sense of taste
Secondary Reinforcer
receptor site
gustation
hindbrain
7. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
Morpheme
Specific phobia
Creativity
Raymond Cattell
8. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
Panic Attack
Consciousness
hypothalamus
neuropsychologist
9. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids
independent variable
parathormone
efferent neuron nerve
Ekman & Friesen
10. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected
family studies
Social Interest
independent variable
William Dement
11. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness
Egocentrism
recency effect
David Weschler
dopamine
12. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.
Concept
Major depressive disorder
scientific method
Arousal
13. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
pituitary gland
Standardization
Approach-avoidance conflict
monism
14. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.
Assessment
Self-actualization
eclectic
Trichromats
15. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions
Moro reflex
Rosenhan
hormone
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
16. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s
correlation coefficient
Egocentrism
receptor site
corpus callosum
17. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
Variable-ratio Schedule
cerebellum
Residual type of schizophrenia
pancreas
18. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
Placebo effect
sensory memory
structuralism
Self-actualization
19. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
Lewis Terman
Prototype
excitatory neurotransmitter
Gender
20. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
Wernicke's area
Counterconditioning
olfaction
Reliability
21. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
declarative memory
Substance Abuser
neuropsychologist
Ex Post Facto Design
22. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.
sociocultural psychology
Rationalization
Reactance
functional MRI (fMRI)
23. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
structuralism
recessive gene
representative sample
observer bias
24. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
acetylcholine (ACh)
Puberty
Abraham Maslow
dualism
25. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.
Convergent thinking
Bipolar disorder
Problem Solving
olfaction
26. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality
Convergent thinking
forebrain
Superstitious Behavior
rehearsal
27. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)
Approach-approach conflict
Hobson & McCarley
menarche
neural impulse
28. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
Syntax
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Representative sample
Saccades
29. 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.
Norms
hypothesis
Size constancy
Percentile score
30. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)
David McClelland
Robert Sternberg
human genomes
Displacement
31. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Double-blind techniques
Blood-Brain Barrier
Temperament
Social Psychology
32. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions
timbre
Charles Darwin
emotional intelligence
Phoneme
33. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
Displacement
Creativity
Transference
inhibitory neurotransmitter
34. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
Benjamin Whorf
median
Electromagnetic Radiation
pancreas
35. Experience of the difference threshold
transfer appropriate processing
eclectic
just noticeable difference (JND)
psychoanalytic
36. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
control group
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
Case study
Gordon Allport
37. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain
habituation
Approach-avoidance conflict
gate control theory
William Sheldon
38. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.
heritability
Reaction Formation
Placebo effect
Obedience
39. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
Language
René Descartes
Robert Rosenthal
Need
40. Constructed by Lewis Terman - originally used ratio IQ (MA/CA x 100); now based on deviation from mean
Orgasm phase
Social Categorization
Carl Rogers
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
41. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory
levels-of-processing approach
relative refractory period
Assessment
Social Need
42. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.
retrieval
Social Cognition
Resolution Phase
Secondary Sex Characteristics
43. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
Libido
Family therapy
variable
forebrain
44. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals
Secondary Sex Characteristics
variable
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Extinction (classical conditioning)
45. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
Hermann Ebbinghaus
David Weschler
gustation
Homeostasis
46. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters
selective attention
synaptic vesicles
heritability
Fixation
47. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.
Morpheme
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Self-serving Bias
pupil
48. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
encoding
Edward Bradford Titchener
B.F. Skinner
Rosenthal & Jacobson
49. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill
synapse
frequency polygon
Gender Schema Theory
zone of proximal development
50. In Piaget's view - a specific mental structure; an organized way of interacting with the environment and experiencing it- a generalization a child makes based on comparable occurences of various actins - usally physical - motor actions
population
Divergent thinking
sympathetic nervous system
Schema