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AP Psychology
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1. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients
endocrine system
Gazzaniga or Sperry
episodic memory
Holmes & Rahe
2. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
Paul Ekman
zone of proximal development
adrenal glands
encoding specificity principle
3. Does research on how people function best with machines
Expectancy Theories
experimenter bias
engineering psychologist
Accommodation
4. Depth cues that are based on one eye
Wechsler intelligence tests
monocular cues
long-term potentiation
Anna O.
5. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints
Conditioned Response
parallel processing
Decentration
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
6. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
Group Polarization
theory
Grasping reflex
double-blind procedure
7. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
Convergent thinking
set point
binocular cues
adrenal glands
8. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
Robert Sternberg
Cross-sectional study
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
parasympathetic nervous system
9. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
Norms
David McClelland
Trichromatic theory
Phineas Gage
10. Organ lying between the stomach and small intestine; regulates blood sugar by secreting to regulating hormones insulin and glucagon
thyroxine
pancreas
structuralism
pseudoscience
11. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
independent variable
hypnosis
Stimulant
behavioral genetics
12. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected
independent variable
Social Categorization
autonomic nervous system
correlation coefficient
13. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
sociocultural psychology
structuralism
frequency distribution
self-fulfilling prophecy
14. The human need to fulfill one's potential
Superstitious Behavior
self-actualization
naturalistic observation
Little Albert
15. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
Tolman
Subgoal analysis
Rape
procedural memory
16. An explanation of behavior that emphasizes the entirety of life rather than individual components of behavior and focuses on human dignity - individual choice - and self-worth
Humanistic theory
Temperament
Social Loafing
maintenance rehearsal
17. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
descriptive statistics
Phallic Stage
norepinephrine
pituitary gland
18. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age
Deviation IQ
frequency
Lucid Dream
Representative sample
19. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts
Deindividuation
demand characteristics
parietal lobes
naturalistic observation
20. 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
Formal operational stage
Aversive counterconditioning
forebrain
monism
21. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience
Approach-avoidance conflict
imagery
Debriefing
top-down processing
22. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes
Appraisal
endocrine system
Norms
Conformity
23. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
Latent Learning
Masters & Johnson
Intrinsic motivation
autonomic nervous system
24. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.
descriptive statistics
Semantics
transfer appropriate processing
Variable-interval Schedule
25. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval
Fixed-interval Schedule
state-dependent learning
Variable-interval Schedule
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
26. Perspective that seeks to explain and predict behaviors by analyzing how the human brain developed over time - how it functions - and how input from the environment affects human behaviors
Herman von Helmholtz
Mainstreaming
evolutionary psychology
gustation
27. In an experiment - the group of participants to whom a treatment is given
Language
neurogenesis
Stimulus Generalization
experimental group
28. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
Family therapy
moral development
maintenance rehearsal
Time-out
29. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
Descriptive Studies
Judith Langlois
axon terminal
frontal lobes
30. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ
Cross-sectional Studies
Altruism
William James
afferent neuron nerve
31. 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?'
Erik Erikson
Double bind
Generalized anxiety disorder
nature
32. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior
Major depressive disorder
twin studies
Stimulus Generalization
Benjamin Whorf
33. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
health psychologist
Stressor
Emotion
Lawrence Kohlberg
34. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
Psychodynamically
Reliability
Dark adaptation
Social Facilitation
35. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
Longitudinal Study
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Logic
Phillip Zimbardo
36. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s
primacy effect
Type A behavior
sympathetic nervous system
corpus callosum
37. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
Superstitious Behavior
dependent variable
token economy
Robert Sternberg
38. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit
operational definition
Discrimination
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Dissociative identity disorder
39. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information
efferent neuron nerve
Clark Hull
semantic memory
retroactive interference
40. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
Secondary Sex Characteristics
developmental psychologist
sympathetic nervous system
humanistic psychology
41. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself
Intrinsic motivation
acetylcholine (ACh)
ions
pupil
42. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
Positive Reinforcement
Social Need
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Group
43. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically
Stress
Nonverbal Communication
Bonding
neural plasticity
44. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory
Anorexia Nervosa
Benjamin Whorf
levels-of-processing approach
Elizabeth Loftus
45. Motivation; believed that gastric activity as in empty stomach - was the sole basis for hunger; did research that inserted balloons in stomachs
Need for achievement
Darley & Latane
naturalistic observation
Walter B. Cannon
46. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.
Syntax
pancreas
pineal gland
Mary Ainsworth
47. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe
Hobson & McCarley
Francis Galton
self-fulfilling prophecy
Trait
48. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords
survey research
thyroxine
sensory neurons
statistics
49. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
triarchic theory of intelligence
Stress
Time-out
behavior
50. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.
Morality
Arousal
Self-actualization
Interpretation