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AP Psychology
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1. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and longstanding maladaptive behaviors that typically cause stress and/or social or occupational problems.
Personality disorders
Counterconditioning
Mediation
response bias
2. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.
range
preconventional level of moral development
Projective Tests
Signal Detection Theory
3. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
Vulnerability
Martin Seligman
preconscious
schema
4. Graphical record of brain-wave activity obtained through electrodes placed on the scalp and forehead
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
just noticeable difference (JND)
Conformity
Group
5. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.
Anal Stage
prenatal development
Vulnerability
confounding variable
6. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
Latent Content
myelin sheath
Shaping
rehearsal
7. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
sensory memory
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Projective Tests
Lev Vygotsky
8. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech
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9. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
motor neurons
mode
acetylcholine (ACh)
Humanistic theory
10. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)
Displacement
neural plasticity
Motive
blind spot
11. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior
Manifest Content
Ivan Pavlov
shaping
gustation
12. 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
Aristotle
occipital lobes
crystallized intelligence
Stanley Milgram
13. Largest - most complicated - and most advanced of the three divisions of the brain; comprises the thalamus - hypothalamus - limbic system - basal ganglia - corpus callosum - and cortex
Jean Piaget
forebrain
Reliability
chunks
14. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
Myopic
Masters & Johnson
memory span
thyroid gland
15. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
selective attention
psychiatrist
Divergent thinking
Prototype
16. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters
axon terminal
insulin
B.F. Skinner
Anal Stage
17. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
Heritability
serotonin
receptor site
Expectancy Theories
18. 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
cochlea
Deindividuation
Elaboration Likelihood Model
correlation coefficient
19. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments
behaviorism
Preoperational stage
Self
Theory of mind
20. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
Heuristics
Leon Festinger
survey research
Linguistics
21. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.
lens
Survey
Libido
Family therapy
22. Shift in electrical charge in a tiny area of the neuron (temporary); transmits a long cell membranes leaving neuron and polarized state; needs higher than normal threshold of excitation to fire
Anal Stage
graded potential
long-term potentiation
John Garcia
23. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat
Heuristics
Generalized anxiety disorder
Obedience
Edward Thorndike
24. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
Manifest Content
parallel processing
Orgasm phase
Electromagnetic Radiation
25. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
dopamine
Preoperational stage
Psychosurgery
fraternal twins
26. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Little Albert
Fulfillment
Latent Content
Wernicke's area
27. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals
Psychoneuroimmunology
serotonin
Bystander Effect
variable
28. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
Kenneth Clark
Psycholinguistics
central nervous system
Bystander Effect
29. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking
counseling psychologist
cognitive psychology
Morpheme
Prejudice
30. 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'
Manifest Content
Temperament
Karen Horney
psychometrician
31. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
memory
John Locke
receptor site
Manifest Content
32. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Validity
informed consent
Repression
Manifest Content
33. The tendency for one characteristic of an individual to influence a tester's evaluation of other characteristics
Major depressive disorder
Halo effect
mode
Divergent thinking
34. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.
Problem Solving
(cerebral) cortex
Negative Reinforcement
mean
35. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones
scientific method
retina
Harry Harlow
Leon Festinger
36. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness
Martin Seligman
brainstem
Wilhelm Wundt
Rosenhan
37. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.
Gender Schema Theory
Obedience
Phoneme
pitch
38. Emotional intelligence
Self-actualization
Learned helplessness
Norms
Daniel Goleman
39. Reproductive glands-male - testes; female - ovaries
brainstem
Phoneme
gonads
Family therapy
40. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.
Symptom substitution
Psychotic
motor neurons
Secondary Punisher
41. 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.
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Dark adaptation
Positive Reinforcement
educational psychologist
42. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age
fluid intelligence
Homeostasis
afferent neuron nerve
Ivan Pavlov
43. Conditioning in which an increase or decrease in the probability that a behavior will recur is affected by the delivery of reinforcement or punishment as a consequence of the behavior;
independent variable
Operant Conditioning
Punishment
Opponent-process theory
44. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
Reliability
Groupthink
Kenneth Clark
naturalistic observation
45. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
Aaron Beck
Group therapy
standard deviation
Fundamental Attribution Error
46. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
recessive gene
Anna Freud
endocrine glands
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
47. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Wernicke's area
Raw score
Latent Learning
Need for achievement
48. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
Mainstreaming
mode
Accommodation
Aggression
49. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
Self
Resilience
Model
Self-efficacy
50. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe
Object permanence
achievement test
corpus callosum
midbrain