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AP Psychology
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1. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
Sensation
Projective Tests
random sample
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
2. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse
Receptive fields
neurotransmitters
Brainstorming
Halo effect
3. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
Impression Formation
cohort effect
Anxiety
Drug
4. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Gender stereotype
Latency Stage
Psychosurgery
5. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
David Weschler
forensic psychologist
frontal lobes
cohort effect
6. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory
photoreceptors
retrieval
educational psychologist
Means-ends analysis
7. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
Motive
Sucking reflex
hypothalamus
Means-ends analysis
8. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving
Double bind
Self-actualization
Social Loafing
Logic
9. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law
Skinner Box
autonomic nervous system
Ernst Weber
triarchic theory of intelligence
10. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.
Intimacy
brain
Cross-sectional study
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
11. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
Preoperational stage
Means-ends analysis
measure of central tendency
anorexia nervosa
12. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
Circadian Rhythms
Deindividuation
olfaction
habituation
13. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
epinephrine
Harry Stack Sullivan
Moro reflex
Unconditioned Stimulus
14. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
Self-efficacy
Androgynous
kinesthesis
Howard Gardner
15. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
Vulnerability
unconscious
Mary Cover-Jones
menarche
16. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age
fluid intelligence
pons
Abnormal Behavior
neuron
17. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
Morpheme
Stanley Schachter
Phineas Gage
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
18. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
nervous system
Self-serving Bias
Wilhelm Wundt
Impression Formation
19. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes
retroactive interference
interneurons
DNA
afferent neuron nerve
20. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment
Mary Ainsworth
David McClelland
Hobson & McCarley
Schema
21. A need or want that causes someone to act
motive
Hermann Rorschach
cohort effect
Jean Piaget
22. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
Clark Hull
sports psychologist
Ivan Pavlov
parallel processing
23. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
opponent-process theory of emotion
primacy effect
semantic memory
Morality
24. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Self-perception Theory
Representative sample
Double-blind techniques
preconscious
25. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities
Brightness
Trichromatic theory
Light
functional MRI (fMRI)
26. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Martin Seligman
somatic nervous system
twin studies
Equity Theory
27. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes
placebo
endocrine system
Factor analysis
Classical Conditioning
28. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal
experimenter bias
Libido
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
health psychologist
29. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
David Weschler
debriefing
schema
Egocentrism
30. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior
state-dependent learning
shaping
Vulnerability
pitch
31. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience
psychobiology
Carol Gilligan
Intelligence
Gibson & Walk
32. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Charles Darwin
anterograde amnesia
Object permanence
Validity
33. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Latent Learning
authoritarian parenting
Major depressive disorder
Konrad Lorenz
34. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.
Projection
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Insomnia
Burnout
35. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts
counseling psychologist
parietal lobes
Gender stereotype
Transduction
36. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
gustation
Elaboration Likelihood Model
experimenter bias
adaptation
37. A division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions; made up of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
autonomic nervous system
industrial/organizational psychologist
Time-out
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
38. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
Case study
Social Influence
Grasping reflex
action potential
39. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
nonconscious
Phobic disorders
Resilience
40. The tendency of people in a group to seek concurrence with one another when reaching a decision - rather than effectively evaluating options.
Interpersonal Attraction
Descriptive Studies
Groupthink
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
41. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
Cognitive theories
Stanley Milgram
Bystander Effect
developmental psychologist
42. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
Gestalt psychology
Concrete operational stage
Circadian Rhythms
Gazzaniga or Sperry
43. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
Humanistic theory
sympathetic nervous system
observer bias
Signal Detection Theory
44. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.
instinct
motivated forgetting
Grammar
pupil
45. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
psychiatrist
blind spot
William Sheldon
measure of central tendency
46. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
Phillip Zimbardo
sensory adaptation
identical twins
myelin sheath
47. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
Manifest Content
Approach-avoidance conflict
Prototype
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
48. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.
Depressive disorders
ethnocentrism
Schizophrenic disorders
aptitude test
49. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior
Generalized anxiety disorder
engineering psychologist
standard deviation
Theory of mind
50. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
Electromagnetic Radiation
Behavior therapy
selection studies
primacy effect