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AP Psychology
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1. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep
Health psychology
Delusions
Ego
Insomnia
2. 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)
Regression
nonconscious
standard deviation
resting potential
3. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants
parathyroid
selective attention
Negative Reinforcement
Self-fulfilling prophecy
4. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics
representative sample
Mainstreaming
Homeostasis
Family therapy
5. 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
Intelligence
working memory
statistics
Object permanence
6. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision
cones
Elaboration Likelihood Model
refractory period
Darley & Latane
7. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter
cohort effect
Rape
agonist
significant difference
8. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
social psychologist
Gender Schema Theory
Deviation IQ
Ivan Pavlov
9. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma
Double-blind techniques
Prejudice
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
maintenance rehearsal
10. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
dualism
Coping
Mediation
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
11. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data
Factor analysis
identical twins
psychology
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
12. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
Actor-observer Effect
peripheral nervous system
debriefing
Drug
13. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females
Child abuse
Variable-interval Schedule
Gender stereotype
Critical Period
14. An unconscious way of reducing anxiety by distorting perceptions of reality.
Androgynous
gate control theory
Defense Mechanism
Fixed-ratio Schedule
15. The level of consciousness devoted to processes completely unavailable to conscious awareness (e.g. - fingernails growing)
nonconscious
Self-serving Bias
bulimia nervosa
Self-actualization
16. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning
Phineas Gage
Free association
Latent Content
encoding specificity principle
17. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions
triarchic theory of intelligence
Critical Period
sociocultural psychology
Divergent thinking
18. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
cerebellum
Paul Ekman
Mediation
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
19. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
Carl Rogers
epinephrine
sample
Hue
20. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm
Psychoneuroimmunology
Sublimation
Plateau phase
experimenter bias
21. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.
Phobic disorders
Wechsler intelligence tests
Transference
blind spot
22. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent
case study
Premack principle
Latency Stage
explicit memory
23. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
elaborative rehearsal
health psychologist
Transference
control group
24. Observed group differences based on the era when people were born and grew up - exposing them to particular experiences that may affect the results of cross-sectional studies
variability
Theory of mind
Psychotic
cohort effect
25. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.
Optic chiasm
Conditioned Response
Trichromatic theory
Light
26. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
parathyroid
experimental group
split brain patients
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
27. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.
Social Interest
Assessment
Need
Self-efficacy
28. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
menopause
transfer appropriate processing
genetics
Halo effect
29. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
psychology
Lewis Terman
Absolute threshold
Circadian Rhythms
30. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after predetermined but varying amounts of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once after each interval
Approach-avoidance conflict
Variable-interval Schedule
sensory adaptation
demand characteristics
31. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research
Stanley Milgram
science
Lev Vygotsky
Reactance
32. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation
moral development
Standard score
Rational-emotive therapy
Generalized anxiety disorder
33. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.
neural impulse
behavior
psychologist
Bystander Effect
34. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment
Skinner Box
forebrain
William James
operational definition
35. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons
Psychoactive Drug
afferent neuron nerve
Critical Period
peripheral nervous system
36. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
frontal lobes
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Means-ends analysis
37. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.
Working through
experiment
sensory adaptation
genotype
38. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement
hippocampus
(cerebral) cortex
evolutionary psychology
Halo effect
39. A donut ring-shaped of loosely connected structures located in the forebrain between the central core and cerebral hemispheres; consists of: septum - cingulate gyrus - endowments - hypothalamus - and to campus - and amygdala; associated with emotions
Herman von Helmholtz
limbic system
brain
Prototype
40. The biologically based categories of male and female
Sex
Conservation
parasympathetic nervous system
Token economy
41. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
semantic memory
John Garcia
pineal gland
Konrad Lorenz
42. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle
Alfred Adler
Abnormal Behavior
Primary Reinforcer
Anna Freud
43. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; criticized Freud - stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses - rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts - neurotic trends; concept of 'basic anxiety'
Withdrawal Symptoms
adaptation
Karen Horney
Edward Bradford Titchener
44. A mass of tissue that is attached to the wall f the uterus and connected to the developing fetus by the umbilical cord; it supplies nutrients and eliminates waste products
Phoneme
Placenta
anterograde amnesia
frontal lobes
45. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
Alzheimer's Disease
postconventional level of moral development
motor neurons
Displacement
46. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.
Consciousness
Cross-sectional study
Experimental design
psychiatrist
47. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)
neural impulse
median
Hobson & McCarley
memory
48. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.
Prosocial Behavior
psychobiology
Gibson & Walk
Interpersonal Attraction
49. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
Functional fixedness
Saturation
maintenance rehearsal
double-blind procedure
50. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ
spinal cord
Cross-sectional Studies
zone of proximal development
Conflict