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AP Psychology
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1. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
Self-serving Bias
Approach-avoidance conflict
Theory of mind
Agoraphobia
2. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
Stanley Schachter
Hue
cornea
twin studies
3. An individual's genetic make-up
Expectancy Theories
Howard Gardner
counseling psychologist
genotype
4. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
participant
measure of central tendency
Representative sample
Trait
5. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Double-blind techniques
declarative memory
Phineas Gage
ethnocentrism
6. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings
elaborative rehearsal
levels-of-processing approach
psychologist
Conditioned Response
7. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
Variable-ratio Schedule
vestibular sense
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Judith Langlois
8. Intelligence and learning - self-fulfilling prophecy; Study Basics: Researchers misled teachers into believing that certain students had higher IQs. Teachers changed own behaviors and effectively raised the IQ of the randomly chosen students
retrograde amnesia
graded potential
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Concrete operational stage
9. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
axon terminal
state-dependent learning
Bulimia Nervosa
Biofeedback
10. Moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication
agonist
Lawrence Kohlberg
motor projection areas
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
11. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
neurogenesis
proactive interference
strain studies
Lev Vygotsky
12. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
Self-efficacy
Cross-sectional Studies
school psychologist
aptitude test
13. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
Abraham Maslow
Reliability
iris
Dissociative disorders
14. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information
Appraisal
Edward Thorndike
retroactive interference
family studies
15. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Social phobia
Rosenthal & Jacobson
hypnosis
Cross-sectional Studies
16. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
Walter B. Cannon
Kurt Lewin
nature
consolidation
17. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.
Ex Post Facto Design
Optic chiasm
William Dement
experimental group
18. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.
agonist
Panic Attack
measure of central tendency
Depressive disorders
19. The tendency of people in a group to seek concurrence with one another when reaching a decision - rather than effectively evaluating options.
Groupthink
emotional intelligence
Morality
flashbulb memories
20. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
Psychosurgery
association areas
decay
psychiatrist
21. A process through which people receive information about the status of a physical system and use this feedback information to learn to control the activity of that system
Biofeedback
(cerebral) cortex
Secondary Punisher
neurogenesis
22. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
binocular cues
educational psychologist
Bonding
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
23. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior
Theory of mind
Systematic desensitization
phenotype
achievement test
24. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.
Depressive disorders
optic nerve
Transference
Cognitive theories
25. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Hans Eysenck
motivated forgetting
Imaginary Audience
Psychophysics
26. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
Brightness
sound localization
behavior
Extrinsic motivation
27. The sense of hearing
double-blind procedure
audition
chromosome
Size constancy
28. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
Time-out
psychiatrist
Consciousness
nurture
29. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
Anna Freud
Delusions
Dissociative disorders
polygenic inheritance
30. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
endocrine glands
Trichromatic theory
Lewis Terman
31. Organizing sensory information so it can be processed by the nervous system
fraternal twins
Carl Jung
encoding
midbrain
32. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
Norms
Semantics
pancreas
Observational Learning Theory
33. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior
Social Interest
Cross-sectional study
normal distribution
twin studies
34. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.
forensic psychologist
graded potential
Reinforcer
Self-serving Bias
35. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
parasympathetic nervous system
semantic memory
Decision making
Burnout
36. The evaluation of the significance of a situation or event as it relates to a person's well-being
pons
Learned helplessness
conventional level of moral development
Appraisal
37. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
Personality
Secondary Punisher
Transference
Grammar
38. Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information - usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.
Dissociative amnesia
afferent neuron nerve
transfer appropriate processing
Approach-approach conflict
39. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
Self-fulfilling prophecy
emotional intelligence
Noam Chomsky
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
40. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
Observational Learning Theory
ex post facto study
Unconditioned Response
iris
41. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
Noam Chomsky
Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement
Body Language
42. Perspective developed by freud - which assumes that psychological problems are the result of anxiety resulting from unresolved conflicts and forces of which a person might be unaware
Excitement phase
Francis Galton
psychoanalytic
Carl Jung
43. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter
pineal gland
Hermann Ebbinghaus
agonist
inhibitory neurotransmitter
44. The process by which the location of sound is determined
behavioral genetics
Conservation
sound localization
Depressive disorders
45. 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
Token economy
audition
Noam Chomsky
Morality
46. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
norepinephrine
zone of proximal development
dependent variable
Morpheme
47. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
Reaction Formation
Phineas Gage
motor neurons
sympathetic nervous system
48. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
Phobic disorders
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Circadian Rhythms
Divergent thinking
49. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior
Regression
procedural memory
clinical psychologist
Assimilation
50. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.
nonconscious
limbic system
all-or-none principle
Major depressive disorder