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AP Psychology
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1. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort
Attitudes
preconventional level of moral development
Psychodynamically
Harry Harlow
2. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
Bystander Effect
Hans Eysenck
nature-nurture controversy
dependent variable
3. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Kurt Lewin
Langer & Rodin
Representative sample
Wolpe
4. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
temporal lobes
neuron
Fixation
Primary Punisher
5. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
Projection
excitatory neurotransmitter
axon
Phallic Stage
6. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.
DNA
conventional level of moral development
Linguistics
Concordance rate
7. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
Gender Schema Theory
sound localization
thyroxine
Percentile score
8. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior
Major depressive disorder
Personal Fable
Theory of mind
Placebo effect
9. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.
Color Blindness
Absolute threshold
Skinner Box
olfaction
10. Psychoanalytic technique in which a person is asked to report to the therapist his or her thoughts and feelings as they occur - regardless of how trivial - illogical - or objectionable their content may appear.
hypnosis
ethics
Free association
Langer & Rodin
11. 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
Stanley Milgram
optic nerve
Receptive fields
Bipolar disorder
12. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
representative sample
schema
Self-perception Theory
Excitement phase
13. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Socrates
science
Masters & Johnson
Debriefing
14. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Leon Festinger
replication
Phonology
hormone
15. 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
Optic chiasm
experiment
procedural memory
Anna O.
16. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
Social Facilitation
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Concrete operational stage
17. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
sensory memory
Deindividuation
shaping
myelin sheath
18. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
brain
anorexia nervosa
Motivation
parathormone
19. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
adrenal glands
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Fixation
Clark Hull
20. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems
Gender stereotype
Depressive disorders
Stanley Schachter
counseling psychologist
21. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
chromosome
Family therapy
authoritative parenting
schema
22. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
Mediation
educational psychologist
Prototype
evolutionary psychology
23. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
Libido
Absolute threshold
acetylcholine (ACh)
Groupthink
24. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected
independent variable
Longitudinal Study
Object permanence
Psychoactive Drug
25. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.
Bipolar disorder
prenatal development
Rational-emotive therapy
Ideal Self
26. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
Unconditioned Stimulus
Social Interest
Stereotypes
instinct
27. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
Self-perception Theory
parathyroid
Temperament
random sample
28. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives
psychologist
Preoperational stage
psychology
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
29. Areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions - rather - they are involved in higher mental processes such as thinking - planning - and communicating
set point
Social Influence
association areas
amnesia
30. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions
Schizophrenic disorders
emotional intelligence
Bipolar disorder
Social Cognition
31. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
DNA
normal distribution
Abnormal Behavior
nonconscious
32. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.
iris
school psychologist
Unconditioned Response
Creativity
33. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
consolidation
Aaron Beck
Judith Langlois
health psychologist
34. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
top-down processing
Elizabeth Loftus
neurotransmitters
psychology
35. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
sample
Linguistics
nervous system
spinal cord
36. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results
self-fulfilling prophecy
Perception
Albert Bandura
Arousal
37. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
Karl Wernicke
Ego
Collective Unconscious
Sensation
38. 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
Hobson & McCarley
evolutionary psychology
inhibitory neurotransmitter
humanistic psychology
39. Sets of strategies - rather than strict rules - that act as guidelines for discovery-oriented problem solving.
working memory
Conditioned Response
Stimulant
Heuristics
40. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Mary Ainsworth
Phineas Gage
Double-blind techniques
hippocampus
41. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
debriefing
operational definition
dependent variable
42. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
menarche
descriptive statistics
Decentration
dualism
43. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement
brainstem
experiment
Latent Learning
Latent Content
44. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh
Circadian Rhythms
Conditioned Stimulus
gate control theory
Defense Mechanism
45. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
psychologist
Standardization
placebo
46. Neutral stimulus that - through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus - begins to elicit a conditioned response
pituitary gland
structuralism
Conditioned Stimulus
Social Interest
47. Neurotransmitter that inhibits firing of neurons; linked with Huntington's disease
vestibular sense
Edward Bradford Titchener
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Reaction Formation
48. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent
genetics
convolutions
pseudoscience
Robert Zajonc
49. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
Latency Stage
Benjamin Whorf
split brain patients
monism
50. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data
psychometrician
Critical Period
Psychophysics
menarche