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AP Psychology
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1. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
Working through
Client-centered therapy
Darley & Latane
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
2. The general state of being aware of and responsive to events in the environment - as well as one's own mental processes
Holmes & Rahe
Henry Murray
nurture
Consciousness
3. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.
Child abuse
Stanley Milgram
Lucid Dream
Descriptive Studies
4. The increase in sensitivity to light that occurs when the illumination level changes from high to low - causing chemicals in the rods and cones to regenerate and return to their inactive state.
social psychologist
Von Restorff effect
Emotion
Dark adaptation
5. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior
Motivation
Longitudinal Study
Cross-sectional study
Heritability
6. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants
Expectancy Theories
Ego
dendrites
Gibson & Walk
7. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
Fetus
Saccades
Anna O.
rehearsal
8. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
all-or-none principle
dependent variable
Charles Spearman
9. 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.
Antisocial personality disorder
Stress
developmental psychologist
Defense Mechanism
10. Organizing sensory information so it can be processed by the nervous system
demand characteristics
encoding
descriptive statistics
median
11. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
Harry Stack Sullivan
Overjustification effect
pseudoscience
Premack principle
12. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems
Drive
psychoanalyst
Gordon Allport
Cross-sectional study
13. 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)
top-down processing
neural impulse
John Locke
Personality
14. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
Subgoal analysis
Prevalence
rods
Ideal Self
15. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems
Ex Post Facto Design
procedural memory
counseling psychologist
Learning
16. An individual's genetic make-up
genotype
Expectancy Theories
Social Facilitation
proactive interference
17. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp
structuralism
Harry Harlow
Learned Helplessness
EEG (electroencephalogram)
18. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
genetics
structuralism
Impression Formation
Saturation
19. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher
Burnout
Raymond Cattell
frequency distribution
Secondary Punisher
20. Commonly occurring behavior can reinforce a less frequent behavior
Premack principle
Psychosurgery
Gender stereotype
Hyperopic
21. 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.
pineal gland
pancreas
Reactance
Anna O.
22. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
resting potential
Withdrawal Symptoms
Brightness
operational definition
23. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
Oral Stage
human genomes
random sample
convolutions
24. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.
Obedience
Psychophysics
Martin Seligman
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
25. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization
Wolpe
hormone
polarization
Id
26. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
Aggression
transfer appropriate processing
health psychologist
Convergent thinking
27. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
Solomon Asch
monocular cues
Intimacy
Myopic
28. Does research on how people function best with machines
autonomic nervous system
Sensation
endocrine system
engineering psychologist
29. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
resting potential
gonads
population
placebo
30. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Equity Theory
Variable-ratio Schedule
motive
Conditioned Response
31. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities
bulimia nervosa
Personality
Stimulus Discrimination
functional MRI (fMRI)
32. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
Genital Stage
sociocultural psychology
chromosome
fluid intelligence
33. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
normal distribution
David McClelland
observer bias
Functional fixedness
34. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood
Stimulant
iris
Deviation IQ
developmental psychologist
35. Maintenance of a constant state of inner stability or balance
William James
brainstem
Zajonc & Markus
Homeostasis
36. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
Intrinsic motivation
Paul Ekman
Law of Effect
Orgasm phase
37. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
dendrites
Alfred Adler
Representative sample
Health psychology
38. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body
set point
Logic
Self-actualization
agonist
39. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
Representative sample
storage
Oral Stage
Androgynous
40. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions
motivated forgetting
Syntax
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Stanley Milgram
41. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
percentile score
rehearsal
Decentration
Longitudinal Study
42. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
Personality
educational psychologist
Observational Learning Theory
Gender
43. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
anorexia nervosa
Ego
Puberty
Free association
44. 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
kinesthesis
Placenta
monism
Emotion
45. Response to the belief that the IV will have an effect - rather than the IV's actual effect - which can be a confounding variable
debriefing
David McClelland
placebo effect
survey research
46. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
Brainstorming
Attachment
Edward Bradford Titchener
Teratogen
47. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
Social Interest
Dream analysis
instinct
Debriefing
48. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Consciousness
Arousal
Debriefing
Egocentrism
49. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
Gestalt psychology
Morpheme
explicit memory
Dream
50. The inability to perceive different hues.
Working through
Motive
Robert Zajonc
Color Blindness