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AP Psychology
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1. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
Preconscious
Need
Anxiety
introspection
2. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness
Type B behavior
sympathetic nervous system
norepinephrine
Martin Seligman
3. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
neurogenesis
Learned Helplessness
iris
Systematic desensitization
4. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after predetermined but varying amounts of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once after each interval
Sociobiology
Law of Effect
Cross-sectional Studies
Variable-interval Schedule
5. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
Excitement phase
gustation
measure of central tendency
Id
6. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
Trait
insulin
Time-out
Hermann Ebbinghaus
7. 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
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Stanley Milgram
mutation
Assimilation
8. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals
Circadian Rhythms
variable
Abraham Maslow
Superstitious Behavior
9. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
ex post facto study
long-term memory
Syntax
Perception
10. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; criticized Freud - stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses - rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts - neurotic trends; concept of 'basic anxiety'
Karen Horney
Psychophysics
Emotion
Imaginary Audience
11. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
Survey
engineering psychologist
Zajonc & Markus
Reactance
12. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Residual type of schizophrenia
sound localization
Anna O.
13. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
Hobson & McCarley
rehearsal
Preoperational stage
Cross-sectional Studies
14. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience
Temperament
imagery
Higher-order Conditioning
Sociobiology
15. 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
consolidation
Depressive disorders
polygenic inheritance
Schema
16. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.
Classical Conditioning
Regression
Moro reflex
Problem Solving
17. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes
sociocultural psychology
Latent Content
Charles Spearman
procedural memory
18. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)
Ideal Self
Robert Sternberg
maintenance rehearsal
Social Psychology
19. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
Aristotle
Assessment
vestibular sense
Daniel Goleman
20. A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable behavior.
Oral Stage
Aversive counterconditioning
Konrad Lorenz
working memory
21. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress
receptor site
mean
Conflict
Holmes & Rahe
22. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening
pitch
somatic nervous system
Need
Lucid Dream
23. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic
Dependence
Creativity
Formal operational stage
survey research
24. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
implicit memory
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
dendrites
Negative Reinforcement
25. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
polygenic inheritance
Socrates
double-blind procedure
Sensation
26. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
monism
Resolution Phase
Vulnerability
Standardization
27. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.
Vulnerability
Heuristics
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
cognitive psychology
28. Transparent covering of the eye
Morality
cornea
Representative sample
Reaction Formation
29. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
Humanistic theory
Brightness
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Albert Ellis
30. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
ex post facto study
Masters & Johnson
Percentile score
somatic nervous system
31. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.
Social Influence
Teratogen
occipital lobes
Edward Bradford Titchener
32. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
proactive interference
Carl Jung
Representative sample
Secondary Punisher
33. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
Health psychology
Charles Spearman
Anxiety
Free association
34. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'
Mary Cover-Jones
thalamus
Langer & Rodin
experimenter bias
35. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
parallel processing
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
twin studies
achievement test
36. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Phoneme
Unconditioned Stimulus
Depressive disorders
Double-blind techniques
37. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment
Mary Ainsworth
interneurons
endocrine glands
Fundamental Attribution Error
38. Following a strong emotion - an opposing emotion counters the first emotion - lessening the experience of that emotion; on repeated occasions - the opposing emotion becomes stronger
Charles Darwin
Trichromats
opponent-process theory of emotion
John Locke
39. Inability to understand or use language
dominant genes
aphasia
instinct
elaborative rehearsal
40. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
Withdrawal Symptoms
Conditioned Response
relative refractory period
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
41. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
cognitive psychology
thalamus
postconventional level of moral development
blind spot
42. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
Bonding
motor neurons
Aversive counterconditioning
Harry Stack Sullivan
43. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
clinical psychologist
elaborative rehearsal
random sample
Superego
44. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
Algorithm
Punishment
Bipolar disorder
David McClelland
45. 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.
Electromagnetic Radiation
Major depressive disorder
correlation coefficient
explicit memory
46. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons
afferent neuron nerve
resting potential
Oedipus Complex
Latent Learning
47. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
Type A behavior
just noticeable difference (JND)
measure of central tendency
mode
48. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Konrad Lorenz
Saccades
ethics
49. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
family studies
Stress
glial cells
top-down processing
50. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking
amygdala
Displacement
cognitive psychology
parietal lobes