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AP Psychology
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1. 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
zone of proximal development
Social Categorization
forensic psychologist
Conservation
2. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place
Syntax
prenatal development
nervous system
Schizophrenic disorders
3. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
experimenter bias
statistics
preconscious
hypothesis
4. An unconscious way of reducing anxiety by distorting perceptions of reality.
Defense Mechanism
declarative memory
experimenter bias
evolutionary psychology
5. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
Negative Reinforcement
Conservation
Phallic Stage
parathormone
6. The expression of genes
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
phenotype
Interpersonal Attraction
evolutionary psychology
7. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body
difference threshold
Tolerance
neuron
engineering psychologist
8. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
endorphins
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Depressive disorders
Edward Bradford Titchener
9. 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
Positive Reinforcement
counseling psychologist
Counterconditioning
midbrain
10. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.
Consciousness
Sensorimotor stage
placebo effect
Syntax
11. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.
Sex
fovea
Visual cortex
Brightness
12. Creates a computerized image using a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves
Dependence
fovea
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Vasocongestion
13. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
psychoanalytic
motivated forgetting
Attributions
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
14. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
Opponent-process theory
variable
Positive Reinforcement
strain studies
15. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
ex post facto study
Decentration
Survey
working memory
16. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
Wilhelm Wundt
Longitudinal Study
Biofeedback
Reliability
17. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
Attachment
Hobson & McCarley
endorphins
Creativity
18. 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.
agonist
Gender stereotype
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Interpretation
19. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary
school psychologist
Wolpe
Nonverbal Communication
Self-fulfilling prophecy
20. Maintenance of a constant state of inner stability or balance
flashbulb memories
Dissociative identity disorder
Homeostasis
nonconscious
21. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine
thyroid gland
double-blind procedure
Preoperational stage
Stimulus Generalization
22. Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people - ideas - or objects that are based on a person's past experiences - shape his or her future behavior - and are evaluative in nature.
Attitudes
sensory memory
schema
median
23. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
antagonist
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Morpheme
mutation
24. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.
Insight therapy
Self
photoreceptors
gate control theory
25. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
motor neurons
Heuristics
observer bias
endorphins
26. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
Descriptive Studies
recessive gene
Heritability
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
27. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
consolidation
Social Interest
Konrad Lorenz
Decision making
28. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed
split brain patients
Cognitive Psychology
conventional level of moral development
nonconscious
29. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
rehearsal
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Type B behavior
top-down processing
30. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism
anterograde amnesia
Primary Punisher
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Secondary Reinforcer
31. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Robert Rosenthal
conventional level of moral development
Attitudes
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
32. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent
pseudoscience
Superego
amygdala
Carl Jung
33. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
theory
Consciousness
Morpheme
serotonin
34. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.
Gender Identity
Unconditioned Stimulus
Altruism
crystallized intelligence
35. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
Substance Abuser
frontal lobes
hindbrain
Fixed-interval Schedule
36. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
health psychologist
Darley & Latane
Mediation
Impression Formation
37. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
Double-blind techniques
token economy
Androgynous
peripheral nervous system
38. 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
Learning
Symptom substitution
normal distribution
Jean Piaget
39. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience
Skinner Box
Self
psychobiology
Drive
40. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Linguistics
Motivation
Anorexia Nervosa
41. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law
Bulimia Nervosa
Ernst Weber
functional MRI (fMRI)
Semantics
42. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait
Convergent thinking
token economy
dominant genes
excitatory neurotransmitter
43. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
Leon Festinger
Need
observer bias
Deviation IQ
44. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings
Variable-ratio Schedule
Ernst Weber
Psychodynamically
Robert Zajonc
45. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -
Self-actualization
synaptic vesicles
William Sheldon
range
46. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data
human genomes
endorphins
Substance Abuser
statistics
47. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
Phoneme
Egocentrism
motive
Excitement phase
48. The brain and spinal cord
Psychoneuroimmunology
parallel processing
central nervous system
psychometrician
49. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Motive
genetic mapping
ex post facto study
human genomes
50. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
spinal cord
Konrad Lorenz
Orgasm phase
Experimental design