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AP Psychology
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1. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.
Insight therapy
Sublimation
Approach-avoidance conflict
Group Polarization
2. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
Mary Cover-Jones
Albert Ellis
Experimental design
Standardization
3. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.
Symptom substitution
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Edward Thorndike
antagonist
4. 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
Jean Piaget
Lewis Terman
Normal curve
Henry Murray
5. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
Decision making
Dissociative identity disorder
Language
Logic
6. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
Aaron Beck
debriefing
top-down processing
instinct
7. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.
Abraham Maslow
human genomes
Transduction
Secondary Sex Characteristics
8. Threadlike structure within the nucleus of cells that contain genes
chromosome
Phonology
Babinski reflex
Panic Attack
9. When a neuron is in polarization; more negative ions are inside the neuron cell membrane with a positive ions on the outside - causing a small electrical charge; release of this charge generates a neuron's impulse (signal/message)
Robert Sternberg
debriefing
Actor-observer Effect
resting potential
10. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience
Case study
imagery
Opponent-process theory
Langer & Rodin
11. Freud's first stage of personality development - from birth to about age 2 - during which the instincts of infants are focused on the mouth as the primary pleasure center.
Self
Oral Stage
emotional intelligence
confounding variable
12. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories
Attributions
hippocampus
consolidation
axon
13. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
Deviation IQ
Debriefing
Grasping reflex
gonads
14. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
parallel processing
Demand characteristics
nonconscious
monism
15. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input
Survey
ESP
storage
David McClelland
16. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
Temperament
declarative memory
convolutions
selection studies
17. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
Dichromats
anorexia nervosa
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
frequency polygon
18. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.
Creativity
Temperament
recessive gene
Wechsler intelligence tests
19. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
Carol Gilligan
statistics
median
René Descartes
20. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
Norms
levels-of-processing approach
social psychologist
Stress
21. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
Ideal Self
crystallized intelligence
authoritative parenting
Unconditioned Response
22. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume
pancreas
mutation
Harry Harlow
Conservation
23. Rules of proper and acceptable conduct that investigators use to guide psychological research
pancreas
ethics
mean
achievement test
24. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches
encoding
Hermann Ebbinghaus
eclectic
Percentile score
25. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood
Group therapy
Adolescence
nerve
Standard score
26. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids
parathormone
spinal cord
Tolerance
Survey
27. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'
Repression
Intrinsic motivation
Altruism
Erik Erikson
28. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
Self-serving Bias
Regression
hindbrain
normal distribution
29. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
Jean Piaget
Mary Ainsworth
Object permanence
receptor site
30. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
pons
polygenic inheritance
Latency Stage
Semantics
31. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory
Phallic Stage
Gender
transfer appropriate processing
Observational Learning Theory
32. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself
all-or-none principle
thalamus
Teratogen
Intrinsic motivation
33. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.
Experimental design
Conformity
Cognitive Dissonance
photoreceptors
34. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
Algorithm
olfaction
top-down processing
state-dependent learning
35. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
Elaboration Likelihood Model
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Darley & Latane
Unconditioned Stimulus
36. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.
Cross-sectional study
Rape
Ernst Weber
Denial
37. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.
ethnocentrism
Gender Schema Theory
Specific phobia
operational definition
38. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
Observational Learning Theory
observer bias
scientific method
ESP
39. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
psychology
Babinski reflex
Ego
school psychologist
40. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Skinner Box
Longitudinal Study
science
41. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
confounding variable
Group therapy
authoritative parenting
Paul Ekman
42. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
twin studies
parallel processing
Denial
Jean Piaget
43. An individual's genetic make-up
thyroid gland
Elaboration Likelihood Model
genotype
Embryo
44. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
procedural memory
Noam Chomsky
Debriefing
Time-out
45. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings
Tolman
genetic mapping
schema
Robert Zajonc
46. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles
Latent Learning
Phillip Zimbardo
memory
Excitement phase
47. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.
Linguistics
parallel processing
Language
Superego
48. 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.
Learned helplessness
control group
Cognitive Psychology
Thanatology
49. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Lewis Terman
Concordance rate
Bulimia Nervosa
functionalism
50. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
thyroxine
Brightness
corpus callosum
Social Psychology