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AP Psychology
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1. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving
Morality
Self-actualization
synaptic cleft
Projection
2. The human need to fulfill one's potential
Psychotherapy
self-actualization
Unconditioned Stimulus
Need
3. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume
Equity Theory
recency effect
Assimilation
Conservation
4. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Elizabeth Loftus
John B Watson
Bipolar disorder
Light
5. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
semantic memory
rehearsal
Blood-Brain Barrier
Tolerance
6. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources
Excitement phase
Coping
Lawrence Kohlberg
Edward Bradford Titchener
7. Conditioning in which an increase or decrease in the probability that a behavior will recur is affected by the delivery of reinforcement or punishment as a consequence of the behavior;
anterograde amnesia
Trichromats
dualism
Operant Conditioning
8. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
motor projection areas
schema
Premack principle
Little Albert
9. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Personality
Prejudice
Rationalization
Monochromats
10. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction
transfer appropriate processing
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
polarization
cochlea
11. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.
Child abuse
Anna O.
Self-efficacy
Social Categorization
12. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes
heritability
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
case study
Visual cortex
13. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic value for an organism but that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer
authoritarian parenting
selective attention
Secondary Reinforcer
Double bind
14. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
Normal curve
motor neurons
primacy effect
Learned helplessness
15. Primary area for processing visual information
Self-actualization
Genital Stage
photoreceptors
occipital lobes
16. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Hue
Projection
thyroxine
17. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
Gestalt psychology
semantic memory
Fundamental Attribution Error
Hermann Rorschach
18. The biochemical processes that make it easier for the neuron to respond again when it has been stimulated
Absolute threshold
long-term potentiation
Intelligence
genetic mapping
19. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Motive
Negative Reinforcement
photoreceptors
Self-efficacy
20. The brain and spinal cord
control group
central nervous system
Agoraphobia
hippocampus
21. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.
Decision making
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Behavior therapy
Fetus
22. Theory that holds that an observer's perception depends not only on the intensity of a stimulus but also on the observer's motivation - the criteria he or she sets for determining that a signal is present - and on the background noise.
Signal Detection Theory
cones
Linguistics
Saturation
23. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
Vulnerability
acetylcholine (ACh)
chromosome
frequency polygon
24. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females
Social Loafing
Gender stereotype
transfer appropriate processing
ethics
25. An individual who takes part in an experiment and whose behavior is observed as part of the data collection process
Aaron Beck
health psychologist
action potential
participant
26. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
parasympathetic nervous system
Bonding
Reinforcer
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
27. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
adrenal glands
humanistic psychology
Perception
Type B behavior
28. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
Antisocial personality disorder
Ex Post Facto Design
graded potential
psychobiology
29. 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
polarization
Panic Attack
Trait
John B Watson
30. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
observer bias
ex post facto study
Intimacy
31. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals
Social Interest
hindbrain
variable
William James
32. The process by which individuals lose their self-awareness and distinctive personality in the context of a group - which may lead them to engage in antinormative behavior.
Alzheimer's Disease
Group
convolutions
Deindividuation
33. A person's experiences in the environment
nurture
motivated forgetting
Developmental Psychology
Transduction
34. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait
Gender stereotype
Collective Unconscious
dominant genes
triarchic theory of intelligence
35. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Aggression
authoritarian parenting
Preoperational stage
36. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea
Prototype
David Rosenhan
binocular cues
Gender stereotype
37. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.
Oedipus Complex
Observational Learning Theory
population
rods
38. A branch of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body functions; it calms the body after sympathetic stimulation
Superego
interneurons
transfer appropriate processing
parasympathetic nervous system
39. In psychoanalysis - an unwillingness to cooperate - which a patient signals by showing a reluctance to provide the therapist with information or to help the therapist understand or interpret a situation.
Resistance
Sucking reflex
parietal lobes
autonomic nervous system
40. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
engineering psychologist
photoreceptors
Personality
representative sample
41. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
42. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
Solomon Asch
dominant genes
Gender Identity
Genital Stage
43. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
evolutionary psychology
Little Albert
spinal cord
rods
44. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law
Humanistic theory
Psychosurgery
Zygote
Ernst Weber
45. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
efferent neuron nerve
psychiatrist
naturalistic observation
Transduction
46. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma
Drug
Fixation
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Psychoanalysis
47. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe
Creativity
Francis Galton
Projection
Self-efficacy
48. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat
Preoperational stage
parietal lobes
polygenic inheritance
Anorexia Nervosa
49. Deals with the extent to which heredity and the environment each influence behavior
nature-nurture controversy
set point
Walter B. Cannon
dendrites
50. 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
Cognitive Psychology
aversive conditioning
Harry Harlow
Intrinsic motivation