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AP Psychology
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1. The expression of genes
gustation
measure of central tendency
Oral Stage
phenotype
2. 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
Latent Learning
functionalism
pineal gland
3. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
Francis Galton
Ernst Weber
Assimilation
timbre
4. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.
Sociobiology
experimenter bias
myelin sheath
John Locke
5. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Need for achievement
educational psychologist
Robert Yerkes
Survey
6. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
Carl Rogers
Attributions
ESP
Dementia
7. The first person to study memory scientifically and systematically; used nonsense syllables and recorded how many times he had to study a list to remember it well
Rooting reflex
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Nonverbal Communication
8. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)
Thanatology
psychiatrist
Wechsler intelligence tests
achievement test
9. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)
Attachment
rehearsal
recessive gene
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
10. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses
Humanistic theory
Factor analysis
Conflict
psychiatrist
11. The cessation of the ability to reproduce
Cognitive theories
menopause
lens
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
12. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
Norms
Subliminal perception
Object permanence
parallel processing
13. 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
normal distribution
refractory period
Family therapy
14. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information
retroactive interference
Hermann Ebbinghaus
episodic memory
axon
15. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
Bonding
interneurons
dominant genes
Halo effect
16. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.
Discrimination
Optic chiasm
authoritative parenting
observer bias
17. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Babinski reflex
Conformity
fluid intelligence
18. The brain and spinal cord
eclectic
dependent variable
central nervous system
Observational Learning Theory
19. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
anterograde amnesia
menopause
Opponent-process theory
Trichromatic theory
20. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
Consciousness
Group
Psychodynamically
Extinction (classical conditioning)
21. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed
Norms
Fixed-ratio Schedule
olfaction
split brain patients
22. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
authoritative parenting
nurture
Gender stereotype
Bonding
23. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat
receptor site
memory
John B Watson
Concept
24. Perspective that seeks to explain and predict behaviors by analyzing how the human brain developed over time - how it functions - and how input from the environment affects human behaviors
motor neurons
evolutionary psychology
Resolution Phase
Francis Galton
25. Electrically charged particles found both inside and outside a neuron; negative ions are found inside the cell membrane in a polarized neuron
autonomic nervous system
motivated forgetting
ions
Psychosurgery
26. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Impression Formation
Counterconditioning
Anxiety
27. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
Wolpe
decay
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Intimacy
28. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior
shaping
Deviation IQ
Vasocongestion
recessive gene
29. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s
genetics
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Libido
corpus callosum
30. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
genetic mapping
neurogenesis
Moro reflex
Variable-ratio Schedule
31. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
habituation
Hermann Ebbinghaus
chunks
Semantics
32. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory
Self-actualization
schema
Observational Learning Theory
Longitudinal Study
33. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
midbrain
Language
Morpheme
Hyperopic
34. An insight therapy - developed be Carl Rogers - that seeks to help people evaluate the world and themselves from their own perspective by providing them with a nondirective environment and unconditional positive regard; also known as person-centered
Client-centered therapy
Carol Gilligan
Accommodation
William Dement
35. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
Plateau phase
serotonin
Self-fulfilling prophecy
procedural memory
36. Able to see objects at a distance clearly but having trouble seeing things up close; farsighted
emotional intelligence
brain
Rationalization
Hyperopic
37. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
pancreas
crystallized intelligence
Charles Spearman
brain
38. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities
Kurt Lewin
Phobic disorders
Fixation
Developmental Psychology
39. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
sports psychologist
Monochromats
Divergent thinking
Reaction Formation
40. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
Judith Langlois
Algorithm
Wolpe
mutation
41. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.
Wolpe
Phineas Gage
Bystander Effect
neural plasticity
42. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
Heritability
Positive Reinforcement
Prototype
Drive
43. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe
Carol Gilligan
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Burnout
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
44. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'
Erik Erikson
Prosocial Behavior
Gibson & Walk
neuroscience
45. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands
Resilience
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
frequency distribution
Self-efficacy
46. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.
token economy
Family therapy
iris
Abnormal Behavior
47. An unconscious way of reducing anxiety by distorting perceptions of reality.
Brainstorming
Defense Mechanism
thyroxine
Dissociative amnesia
48. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
Noam Chomsky
eclectic
parasympathetic nervous system
Hans Eysenck
49. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream
Sublimation
endocrine glands
Reflex
Heuristics
50. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results
relative refractory period
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
representative sample
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)