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AP Psychology
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1. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
central nervous system
double-blind procedure
crystallized intelligence
motor projection areas
2. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
pineal gland
Broca's area
conventional level of moral development
Langer & Rodin
3. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
central nervous system
Regression
Validity
achievement test
4. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
Brightness
Edward Thorndike
Psychoanalysis
Androgynous
5. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions
Repression
Drive
triarchic theory of intelligence
Norms
6. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
Secondary Sex Characteristics
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Conservation
Ex Post Facto Design
7. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
Abnormal Behavior
engineering psychologist
working memory
Arousal
8. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after predetermined but varying amounts of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once after each interval
ex post facto study
motor projection areas
Variable-interval Schedule
Psychoneuroimmunology
9. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.
Absolute threshold
Preoperational stage
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Conformity
10. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
visual acuity
Denial
Convergent thinking
David McClelland
11. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat
synaptic vesicles
Anorexia Nervosa
Nonverbal Communication
Standard score
12. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.
Trichromats
psychology
hypothalamus
Gordon Allport
13. The principle that those characteristics and behaviors that help organisms adapt - be fit - and survive will be passed on to successive generations - because flexible - fit individuals have a greater chance of reproduction
Kurt Lewin
Variable-ratio Schedule
natural selection
Stress
14. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.
Prejudice
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Ego
Elizabeth Loftus
15. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
opponent-process theory of emotion
action potential
scientific method
Stressor
16. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.
Paul Ekman
Hue
Specific phobia
inferential statistics
17. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Fixation
Aaron Beck
Gibson & Walk
Visual cortex
18. A number that expresses the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables - ranging from -1 to +1
Longitudinal Study
Electromagnetic Radiation
correlation coefficient
experimental group
19. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.
Theory of mind
Anna Freud
ethics
Depressive disorders
20. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -
zone of proximal development
Reasoning
Psychotherapy
Self-actualization
21. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
Time-out
prenatal development
sample
Developmental Psychology
22. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
Prevalence
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
frequency distribution
Anorexia Nervosa
23. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain
twin studies
convolutions
Social Loafing
Resolution Phase
24. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
mutation
Counterconditioning
rods
Reinforcer
25. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
Zajonc & Markus
chunks
Phonology
Standardization
26. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
mean
memory span
Developmental Psychology
Rationalization
27. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross
Harry Stack Sullivan
Walter B. Cannon
Blood-Brain Barrier
Linguistics
28. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
Wilhelm Wundt
anorexia nervosa
Percentile score
decay
29. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.
Self-actualization
Alfred Adler
Child abuse
Oedipus Complex
30. 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
Phonology
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
informed consent
Puberty
31. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Robert Rosenthal
Convergent thinking
Consciousness
aversive conditioning
32. In Adler's theory - a feeling of openness with all humanity.
Robert Sternberg
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Social Interest
Social Categorization
33. Organizing sensory information so it can be processed by the nervous system
variability
Photoreceptors
psychoanalyst
encoding
34. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
parietal lobes
Stimulus Discrimination
afferent neuron nerve
thyroxine
35. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
Higher-order Conditioning
Object permanence
Fulfillment
functionalism
36. 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
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Operant Conditioning
Negative Reinforcement
informed consent
37. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
Delusions
pupil
Ernst Weber
Decision making
38. The biologically based categories of male and female
Sex
Withdrawal Symptoms
Psychophysics
retroactive interference
39. 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
elaborative rehearsal
Unconditioned Stimulus
normal distribution
Phineas Gage
40. Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people - ideas - or objects that are based on a person's past experiences - shape his or her future behavior - and are evaluative in nature.
Symptom substitution
nature-nurture controversy
Standard score
Attitudes
41. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism
Collective Unconscious
Anna Freud
eclectic
sympathetic nervous system
42. A fertilized egg
Punishment
B.F. Skinner
Zygote
Primary Punisher
43. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall
Anna O.
pitch
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
monocular cues
44. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
mean
Attachment
Antisocial personality disorder
Decision making
45. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors
fluid intelligence
Carol Gilligan
representative sample
amygdala
46. Constructed by Lewis Terman - originally used ratio IQ (MA/CA x 100); now based on deviation from mean
Personality disorders
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
industrial/organizational psychologist
Monochromats
47. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
Alfred Adler
Impression Formation
functionalism
Case study
48. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.
Cognitive theories
iris
Edward Bradford Titchener
Subliminal perception
49. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior
Alfred Binet
Emotion
introspection
Substance Abuser
50. Shift in electrical charge in a tiny area of the neuron (temporary); transmits a long cell membranes leaving neuron and polarized state; needs higher than normal threshold of excitation to fire
Moro reflex
pitch
Abraham Maslow
graded potential