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AP Psychology
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1. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
behaviorism
Psychoactive Drug
Mainstreaming
Cognitive Dissonance
2. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
menarche
Little Albert
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Hans Eysenck
3. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
ions
Sucking reflex
Altruism
chromosome
4. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
sociocultural psychology
Dissociative identity disorder
Gestalt psychology
Kurt Lewin
5. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.
health psychologist
Phoneme
Schizophrenic disorders
Reflex
6. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
recency effect
introspection
demand characteristics
motor projection areas
7. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
Absolute threshold
motive
strain studies
humanistic psychology
8. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
Fundamental Attribution Error
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
neurogenesis
cornea
9. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions
Fixed-interval Schedule
cones
hormone
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
10. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat
psychology
sociocultural psychology
Edward Bradford Titchener
Anorexia Nervosa
11. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning
Dichromats
authoritative parenting
sound localization
Classical Conditioning
12. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
Darley & Latane
Fixed-interval Schedule
Daniel Goleman
Punishment
13. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
Fundamental Attribution Error
pseudoscience
procedural memory
Aggression
14. Adrenaline; activates a sympathetic nervous system by making the heart beat faster - stopping digestion - enlarging pupils - sending sugar into the bloodstream - preparing a blood clot faster
Panic Attack
authoritarian parenting
limbic system
epinephrine
15. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
graded potential
motivated forgetting
functional MRI (fMRI)
median
16. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad
timbre
Morality
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Zygote
17. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience
imagery
Validity
Alzheimer's Disease
Functional fixedness
18. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.
Consciousness
Generalized anxiety disorder
motor projection areas
experiment
19. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
counseling psychologist
control group
Brightness
John Garcia
20. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.
Electromagnetic Radiation
conventional level of moral development
Daniel Goleman
Projection
21. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature
gate control theory
authoritarian parenting
Personality
Dementia
22. 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
Motivation
Standard score
self-fulfilling prophecy
cohort effect
23. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
Bonding
flashbulb memories
frequency
Extrinsic motivation
24. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood
Alfred Binet
Personality disorders
Ernst Weber
Puberty
25. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
episodic memory
Intrinsic motivation
Raymond Cattell
health psychologist
26. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose
response bias
crystallized intelligence
Denial
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
27. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment
amygdala
Social Need
rods
Learning
28. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons
Cognitive Dissonance
efferent neuron nerve
cones
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
29. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
evolutionary psychology
schema
experimental group
Edward Bradford Titchener
30. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
natural selection
replication
Brightness
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
31. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
Latent Learning
Gender
Concrete operational stage
parietal lobes
32. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females
Gender stereotype
parallel processing
corpus callosum
Noam Chomsky
33. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands
axon
Linguistics
Sensation
Rooting reflex
34. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire
demand characteristics
excitatory neurotransmitter
all-or-none principle
phenotype
35. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
binocular cues
Preconscious
Descriptive Studies
pitch
36. A state of mental discomfort arising from a discrepancy between two or more of a person's beliefs or between a person's beliefs and overt behavior.
Cognitive Dissonance
decay
Gender stereotype
participant
37. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
preconventional level of moral development
Latency Stage
receptor site
Displacement
38. Twins from a single fertilized egg (zygote) with the same genetic makeup; also called monozygotic (MZ) twins
hypnosis
Free association
identical twins
Orgasm phase
39. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.
natural selection
Repression
aversive conditioning
rehearsal
40. The situation that occurs when the drug becomes part of the body's functioning and produces withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued
Lucid Dream
Dependence
Reflex
Prototype
41. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
Grasping reflex
Judith Langlois
Psychoanalysis
Phillip Zimbardo
42. Sharpness of vision
bottom-up processing
Major depressive disorder
visual acuity
Subgoal analysis
43. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
Divergent thinking
Placenta
Approach-avoidance conflict
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
44. Biologist; developed theory of evolution; transmutation of species - natural selection - evolution by common descent; 'The Origin of Species' catalogs his voyage on The Beagle
chunks
Extinction (classical conditioning)
ethnocentrism
Charles Darwin
45. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal
Defense Mechanism
structuralism
Thanatology
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
46. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter
Reinforcer
Abraham Maslow
temporal lobes
antagonist
47. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.
Naturalistic observation
habituation
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
48. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords
debriefing
Moro reflex
sensory neurons
Means-ends analysis
49. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
polarization
hindbrain
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Negative Reinforcement
50. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
Psychotherapy
graded potential
aversive conditioning
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)