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AP Psychology
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1. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks
Projective Tests
Naturalistic observation
memory span
long-term potentiation
2. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.
Hue
psychometrician
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
psychobiology
3. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state
Resolution Phase
B.F. Skinner
Group Polarization
midbrain
4. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
Dissociative identity disorder
endorphins
inferential statistics
Learned Helplessness
5. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
nerve
Repression
Robert Yerkes
social psychologist
6. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards
Logic
twin studies
token economy
chunks
7. A person's experiences in the environment
cognitive psychology
Attachment
nurture
Decentration
8. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
Object permanence
Albert Ellis
just noticeable difference (JND)
Raw score
9. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.
Humanistic theory
Approach-approach conflict
Bystander Effect
Prototype
10. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
neuropsychologist
receptor site
chunks
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
11. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged
Schema
self-actualization
ethnocentrism
adaptation
12. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
Cognitive Psychology
Systematic desensitization
Konrad Lorenz
experimenter bias
13. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met
school psychologist
informed consent
frontal lobes
John Garcia
14. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Optic chiasm
conventional level of moral development
declarative memory
15. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)
scientific method
Wechsler intelligence tests
James-Lange theory of emotion
twin studies
16. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
afferent neuron nerve
elaborative rehearsal
Self-actualization
Sublimation
17. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
Latent Learning
Token economy
bulimia nervosa
Intelligence
18. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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19. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
unconscious
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
experimenter bias
kinesthesis
20. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.
Morpheme
Edward Thorndike
Social Psychology
Group Polarization
21. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Decentration
Unconditioned Response
Specific phobia
22. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time
Heritability
Type A behavior
Grasping reflex
Saccades
23. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
Denial
Motive
binocular cues
Gestalt psychology
24. Elements of an experimental situation that might cause a participant to perceive the situation in a certain way or become aware of the purpose of the study and thus bias the participant to behave in a certain way - and in so doing - distort results.
Grammar
Demand characteristics
Dissociative identity disorder
conventional level of moral development
25. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands
psychoanalytic
Arousal
Prejudice
Need for achievement
26. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Placenta
axon
Leon Festinger
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
27. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat
Social Need
Variable-interval Schedule
Generalized anxiety disorder
receptor site
28. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
imagery
rods
Overjustification effect
Dream
29. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment
Fundamental Attribution Error
adrenal glands
Mary Ainsworth
Charles Spearman
30. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions
descriptive statistics
Obedience
Functional fixedness
Stanley Milgram
31. Humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization - transcendence
Erik Erikson
Abraham Maslow
Social Cognition
central nervous system
32. Colored part of the eye that regulates size of pupil
hindbrain
iris
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
ethics
33. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
psychology
Bulimia Nervosa
correlation coefficient
34. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
Double-blind techniques
social psychologist
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Archetypes
35. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
Paul Ekman
Social Loafing
Social Influence
normal distribution
36. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
dualism
serotonin
flashbulb memories
long-term memory
37. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons
B.F. Skinner
Unconditioned Stimulus
Validity
Alfred Binet
38. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
instinct
Norms
Case study
Withdrawal Symptoms
39. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
Conditioning
Phineas Gage
peripheral nervous system
inhibitory neurotransmitter
40. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
excitatory neurotransmitter
brain
Cognitive Dissonance
state-dependent learning
41. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
synaptic vesicles
Discrimination
resting potential
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
42. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.
Oral Stage
Higher-order Conditioning
Reactance
Charles Spearman
43. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe
forebrain
correlation coefficient
myelin sheath
midbrain
44. The evaluation of the significance of a situation or event as it relates to a person's well-being
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
memory
Appraisal
unconscious
45. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
Decision making
occipital lobes
Howard Gardner
Ideal Self
46. A division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions; made up of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
Color Blindness
ethics
autonomic nervous system
Law of Effect
47. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.
Interpretation
Ideal Self
neurotransmitters
schema
48. 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.
behavioral genetics
Learning
random sample
Family therapy
49. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.
Ekman & Friesen
Reinforcer
Anal Stage
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
50. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
long-term memory
achievement test
participant
Personality