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AP Psychology
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1. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
afferent neuron nerve
Theory of mind
Assimilation
Thanatology
2. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
functionalism
Stressor
David Weschler
Punishment
3. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Benjamin Whorf
lens
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Abnormal psychology
4. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea
dependent variable
Factor analysis
David Rosenhan
Dark adaptation
5. Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.
Group Polarization
menopause
parasympathetic nervous system
Placebo effect
6. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
Reasoning
Conformity
Hyperopic
Superstitious Behavior
7. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.
Kurt Lewin
Dependence
control group
Actor-observer Effect
8. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
cerebellum
David McClelland
industrial/organizational psychologist
Plateau phase
9. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
memory
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Fetus
Receptive fields
10. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
Attitudes
Size constancy
Genital Stage
Lewis Terman
11. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
Color Blindness
kinesthesis
structuralism
Darley & Latane
12. Carries impulses from the eye to the brain
Thanatology
optic nerve
replication
school psychologist
13. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.
Anal Stage
Norms
Denial
Self-efficacy
14. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series
bulimia nervosa
recency effect
convolutions
health psychologist
15. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.
Displacement
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
sensory adaptation
Critical Period
16. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
Hermann Rorschach
Cross-sectional Studies
Dependence
Carl Jung
17. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time
Behavior therapy
prenatal development
Variable-interval Schedule
episodic memory
18. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism
James-Lange theory of emotion
Collective Unconscious
Self
Transduction
19. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
inferential statistics
Dichromats
Intelligence
Ideal Self
20. Theory that holds that an observer's perception depends not only on the intensity of a stimulus but also on the observer's motivation - the criteria he or she sets for determining that a signal is present - and on the background noise.
Signal Detection Theory
Naturalistic observation
Aristotle
Systematic desensitization
21. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics
Intimacy
thyroxine
hormone
Case study
22. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine
peripheral nervous system
Receptive fields
Obedience
thyroid gland
23. 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
anterograde amnesia
Stanley Milgram
procedural memory
Behavior therapy
24. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience
educational psychologist
Holmes & Rahe
psychobiology
science
25. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross
Social Influence
Blood-Brain Barrier
behavioral genetics
iris
26. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
Residual type of schizophrenia
placebo effect
preconventional level of moral development
postconventional level of moral development
27. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place
Hue
working memory
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Blood-Brain Barrier
28. Sense of smell
Reflex
Wernicke's area
bulimia nervosa
olfaction
29. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Reaction Formation
Fixation
case study
Babinski reflex
30. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
Mary Ainsworth
peripheral nervous system
hypnosis
norepinephrine
31. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
Personality
Reliability
Stimulus Discrimination
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
32. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Robert Zajonc
refractory period
Social Categorization
33. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
long-term memory
double-blind procedure
human genomes
Resolution Phase
34. Neurotransmitter that inhibits firing of neurons; linked with Huntington's disease
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Clark Hull
Color Blindness
35. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
Blood-Brain Barrier
action potential
association areas
double-blind procedure
36. Noradrenaline; chemical which is excitatory - similar to adrenaline - and affects arousal and memory; raises blood pressure by causing blood vessels to become constricted - but also carried by bloodstream to the anterior pituitary which relaxes ACTH
Collective Unconscious
Creativity
norepinephrine
opponent-process theory of emotion
37. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
William Sheldon
retrieval
Primary Punisher
difference threshold
38. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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39. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
Motivation
hindbrain
Secondary Reinforcer
educational psychologist
40. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
Insight therapy
Punishment
rods
Double bind
41. 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
episodic memory
Hobson & McCarley
Egocentrism
Raymond Cattell
42. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
Trichromats
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
sample
James-Lange theory of emotion
43. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
Dream analysis
Social Facilitation
Delusions
Zajonc & Markus
44. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
Erik Erikson
Judith Langlois
Orgasm phase
Wernicke's area
45. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
Zajonc & Markus
Orgasm phase
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
interneurons
46. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
response bias
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
mode
Abnormal Behavior
47. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)
Psycholinguistics
graded potential
Antisocial personality disorder
Robert Sternberg
48. A test designed to predict a person's future performance
brainstem
split brain patients
Experimental design
aptitude test
49. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information
control group
proactive interference
Saturation
psychometrician
50. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
Interpersonal Attraction
Optic chiasm
Masters & Johnson
Halo effect