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AP Psychology
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1. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
Expectancy Theories
Symptom substitution
monism
Temperament
2. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Reliability
introspection
Consciousness
3. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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4. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state
Interpretation
Resolution Phase
phenotype
behaviorism
5. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
counseling psychologist
encoding
amnesia
nature-nurture controversy
6. 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
Group therapy
Jean Piaget
Humanistic theory
Operant Conditioning
7. Ability of the visual perceptual system to recognize that an object remains constant in size regardless of its distance from the observer or the size of its image on the retina.
Size constancy
Longitudinal Study
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
endorphins
8. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
pineal gland
Socrates
(cerebral) cortex
Lev Vygotsky
9. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
state-dependent learning
olfaction
Resistance
Harry Stack Sullivan
10. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Heuristics
declarative memory
Percentile score
Gender
11. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants
Gibson & Walk
sports psychologist
Counterconditioning
Free association
12. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
Decentration
Norms
memory
mode
13. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill
Formal operational stage
midbrain
placebo
psychologist
14. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it
Reinforcer
Langer & Rodin
split brain patients
René Descartes
15. The brain and spinal cord
transfer appropriate processing
hypothalamus
central nervous system
binocular cues
16. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.
Backward search
case study
Charles Darwin
Assessment
17. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
Ernst Weber
Social Facilitation
Syntax
kinesthesis
18. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.
Cognitive theories
all-or-none principle
Overjustification effect
developmental psychologist
19. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
Social Facilitation
conventional level of moral development
Aaron Beck
Model
20. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
relative refractory period
Harry Stack Sullivan
Regression
self-fulfilling prophecy
21. Establish the relationship between two variables
health psychologist
transfer appropriate processing
parallel processing
correlational research
22. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Dissociative amnesia
Langer & Rodin
Emotion
23. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses
difference threshold
photoreceptors
self-fulfilling prophecy
authoritative parenting
24. 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 -
Deindividuation
Harry Stack Sullivan
Self-actualization
emotional intelligence
25. The suppression of one bit of information by another
Skinner Box
interference
Experimental design
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
26. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8
Stressor
declarative memory
engineering psychologist
Metal retardation
27. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
Humanistic theory
aversive conditioning
Myopic
random sample
28. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
hormone
Fixed-ratio Schedule
consolidation
aphasia
29. 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
Hobson & McCarley
Judith Langlois
menarche
Schizophrenic disorders
30. A descriptive research method in which researchers study behavior in its natural context.
Group Polarization
Naturalistic observation
vestibular sense
Aaron Beck
31. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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32. Psychoanalytic technique in which a person is asked to report to the therapist his or her thoughts and feelings as they occur - regardless of how trivial - illogical - or objectionable their content may appear.
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
Debriefing
empiricism
Free association
33. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body
Francis Galton
peripheral nervous system
unconscious
set point
34. Sense of smell
olfaction
Stanley Schachter
polygenic inheritance
Homeostasis
35. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
Babinski reflex
Hobson & McCarley
audition
introspection
36. Rules of proper and acceptable conduct that investigators use to guide psychological research
Punishment
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Egocentrism
ethics
37. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons
sympathetic nervous system
B.F. Skinner
Consciousness
Longitudinal Study
38. A number that expresses the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables - ranging from -1 to +1
correlation coefficient
Visual cortex
theory
Subliminal perception
39. The highness or lowness of a sound
aphasia
pitch
Ideal Self
Size constancy
40. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
Health psychology
excitatory neurotransmitter
gustation
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
41. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve
all-or-none principle
Archetypes
Normal curve
Extrinsic motivation
42. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
Superstitious Behavior
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Learning
fraternal twins
43. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Linguistics
self-actualization
serotonin
44. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
developmental psychologist
gene
aversive conditioning
Time-out
45. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
sports psychologist
Descriptive Studies
Psycholinguistics
Assessment
46. 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
Noam Chomsky
monism
Zajonc & Markus
phenotype
47. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory
Reactance
Reliability
Observational Learning Theory
Gender
48. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
Observational Learning Theory
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
psychoanalyst
Stanley Schachter
49. Study of the brain and nervous system; overlaps with psychobiology
neuroscience
Unconscious
Concept
Socrates
50. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
control group
William Dement
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
behavioral genetics