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AP Psychology
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1. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
Model
response bias
chunks
Tolerance
2. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Primary Reinforcer
Learning
lens
3. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic value for an organism but that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer
statistics
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Secondary Reinforcer
Walter B. Cannon
4. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
Case study
Positive Reinforcement
Carl Jung
Color Blindness
5. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites
Benjamin Whorf
Need
Substance Abuser
synapse
6. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
Percentile score
Preoperational stage
polygenic inheritance
Ernst Weber
7. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time
episodic memory
descriptive statistics
correlation coefficient
Dementia
8. Primary area for processing visual information
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
occipital lobes
association areas
parathyroid
9. Creates a computerized image using a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
median
Teratogen
Drug
10. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
Imaginary Audience
variable
Superstitious Behavior
median
11. According to Piaget - the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences
psychoanalyst
Ageism
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Accommodation
12. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory
difference threshold
Conditioning
rehearsal
Approach-approach conflict
13. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
endorphins
episodic memory
Intelligence
nurture
14. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
forebrain
Psycholinguistics
Puberty
Size constancy
15. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
Linguistics
long-term memory
representative sample
procedural memory
16. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Prejudice
Hermann Ebbinghaus
agonist
17. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
receptor site
Lucid Dream
Howard Gardner
axon terminal
18. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.
Carl Jung
Blood-Brain Barrier
Social Influence
Psychotherapy
19. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
epinephrine
frequency distribution
normal distribution
natural selection
20. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
Interpersonal Attraction
Trait
Psychoneuroimmunology
Substance Abuser
21. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease
encoding
Langer & Rodin
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Psychoneuroimmunology
22. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
hypothesis
Babinski reflex
industrial/organizational psychologist
Absolute threshold
23. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data
Counterconditioning
psychometrician
Overjustification effect
Heuristics
24. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons
hypothesis
motor projection areas
gustation
interneurons
25. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
survey research
brainstem
Social phobia
Assimilation
26. The level of consciousness devoted to processes completely unavailable to conscious awareness (e.g. - fingernails growing)
counseling psychologist
Intimacy
nonconscious
polarization
27. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords
Convergent thinking
replication
sensory neurons
dominant genes
28. 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
working memory
Symptom substitution
pineal gland
sympathetic nervous system
29. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Group therapy
difference threshold
hindbrain
30. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
Ernst Weber
midbrain
Self-efficacy
Ekman & Friesen
31. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
instinct
explicit memory
triarchic theory of intelligence
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
32. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
Unconditioned Stimulus
Token economy
Dissociative disorders
Tolman
33. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
bottom-up processing
humanistic psychology
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Gender
34. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
Wilhelm Wundt
Spontaneous Recovery
peripheral nervous system
experiment
35. A trait or inherited characteristic that has increased in a population because it solved a problem of survival or reproduction
Phonology
set point
adaptation
Fundamental Attribution Error
36. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.
B.F. Skinner
Insight therapy
Conflict
insulin
37. Motivation; believed that gastric activity as in empty stomach - was the sole basis for hunger; did research that inserted balloons in stomachs
Walter B. Cannon
amygdala
Leon Festinger
experiment
38. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function
Phineas Gage
declarative memory
dualism
Trait
39. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
Time-out
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Imaginary Audience
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
40. Carries impulses from the eye to the brain
optic nerve
statistics
operational definition
Bystander Effect
41. The expression of genes
placebo
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
phenotype
Working through
42. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature
Experimental design
Dementia
engineering psychologist
Leon Festinger
43. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
Punishment
axon
Conservation
Gordon Allport
44. 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
action potential
double-blind procedure
Transference
45. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
Accommodation
inferential statistics
informed consent
Spontaneous Recovery
46. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues
Phonology
limbic system
vestibular sense
forensic psychologist
47. Sharpness of vision
cornea
serotonin
authoritative parenting
visual acuity
48. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Psychosurgery
Psychotherapy
anterograde amnesia
49. A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable behavior.
Aversive counterconditioning
Sucking reflex
Backward search
Phillip Zimbardo
50. Humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization - transcendence
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Denial
Abraham Maslow
Interpretation