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AP Psychology
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1. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
Logic
sample
instinct
midbrain
2. 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
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
norepinephrine
Lewis Terman
3. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
statistics
hypothesis
functionalism
cognitive psychology
4. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions
experiment
somatic nervous system
Light
Ekman & Friesen
5. Commonly occurring behavior can reinforce a less frequent behavior
Premack principle
Imaginary Audience
Monochromats
Intimacy
6. A person's sense of being male or female
Moro reflex
range
scientific method
Gender Identity
7. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Approach-approach conflict
Sociobiology
Counterconditioning
8. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
Conflict
selection studies
Clark Hull
schema
9. An individual who takes part in an experiment and whose behavior is observed as part of the data collection process
Residual type of schizophrenia
participant
Martin Seligman
optic nerve
10. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary
ethnocentrism
school psychologist
Monochromats
measure of central tendency
11. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Need for achievement
variable
Equity Theory
12. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities
Brainstorming
Standardization
association areas
Kurt Lewin
13. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill
Bystander Effect
William James
placebo
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
14. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
Time-out
Resolution Phase
Preconscious
parathormone
15. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
gustation
variable
Conditioned Response
16. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.
engineering psychologist
Projection
Hobson & McCarley
inhibitory neurotransmitter
17. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
Phoneme
Social phobia
Psychosurgery
selective attention
18. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.
explicit memory
genetic mapping
Monochromats
Dichromats
19. The general state of being aware of and responsive to events in the environment - as well as one's own mental processes
Consciousness
Obedience
Burnout
flashbulb memories
20. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes
Aaron Beck
gate control theory
endocrine system
iris
21. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
Sex
Broca's area
Alfred Binet
Wilhelm Wundt
22. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
psychologist
Archetypes
bottom-up processing
Attitudes
23. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
Abnormal psychology
midbrain
Benjamin Whorf
Law of Effect
24. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
peripheral nervous system
Positive Reinforcement
forensic psychologist
lens
25. The view that knowledge should be acquired through observation and often an experiment
Problem Solving
Trichromatic theory
empiricism
Light
26. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
Von Restorff effect
Transduction
Debriefing
postconventional level of moral development
27. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
dendrites
sensory memory
Double bind
Paul Ekman
28. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors
Agoraphobia
Insight therapy
amygdala
family studies
29. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
Sucking reflex
Temperament
neural impulse
confounding variable
30. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
Phallic Stage
Tolerance
Self-perception Theory
moral development
31. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
Elaboration Likelihood Model
functional MRI (fMRI)
receptor site
Herman von Helmholtz
32. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all
pons
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
endocrine system
all-or-none principle
33. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
thyroid gland
population
James-Lange theory of emotion
34. The study of the psychological and medical aspects of death and dying
Repression
Thanatology
Teratogen
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
35. 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 -
Brainstorming
Carl Rogers
dominant genes
vestibular sense
36. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory
norepinephrine
somatic nervous system
nature-nurture controversy
Observational Learning Theory
37. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically
Kenneth Clark
neural plasticity
Antisocial personality disorder
Social Influence
38. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.
action potential
Concept
Unconscious
photoreceptors
39. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information
selective attention
Token economy
Denial
proactive interference
40. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities
Color Blindness
hindbrain
Egocentrism
functional MRI (fMRI)
41. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons
nature
epinephrine
hippocampus
afferent neuron nerve
42. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
Family therapy
Collective Unconscious
fraternal twins
declarative memory
43. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results
Gender Schema Theory
demand characteristics
Transduction
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
44. The tendency for one characteristic of an individual to influence a tester's evaluation of other characteristics
Halo effect
Dependence
Benjamin Whorf
insulin
45. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.
Health psychology
Dementia
Phillip Zimbardo
Learned helplessness
46. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction
Secondary Sex Characteristics
scientific method
Critical Period
brain
47. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
semantic memory
Noam Chomsky
Photoreceptors
48. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
parathormone
genetics
authoritarian parenting
habituation
49. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
state-dependent learning
Social Categorization
Social Facilitation
Self-actualization
50. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior
Consciousness
temporal lobes
Motivation
Group therapy