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AP Psychology
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1. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
Law of Effect
amnesia
decay
Discrimination
2. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
action potential
Experimental design
Harry Harlow
somatic nervous system
3. The biologically based categories of male and female
Robert Sternberg
Sex
descriptive statistics
operational definition
4. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality
William Sheldon
polygenic inheritance
forebrain
Motivation
5. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher
evolutionary psychology
Fixation
Secondary Punisher
selective attention
6. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data
Teratogen
statistics
behavioral genetics
Delusions
7. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
long-term memory
frontal lobes
Dissociative disorders
Wernicke's area
8. In emerging Theo psychology that focuses on positive experiences; includes subjective well-being - self-determination - the relationship between positive emotions and physical health - and the factors that allow individuals - communities - and societ
Theory of mind
Law of Effect
positive psychology
Manifest Content
9. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.
Fulfillment
Altruism
Hobson & McCarley
insulin
10. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles
Secondary Punisher
Phillip Zimbardo
motor projection areas
Self-perception Theory
11. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross
educational psychologist
heritability
Carl Jung
Blood-Brain Barrier
12. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Monochromats
Babinski reflex
Hermann Rorschach
Latent Content
13. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
monism
Assessment
Von Restorff effect
hypothesis
14. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event
mutation
functional MRI (fMRI)
retrograde amnesia
Repression
15. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
Abnormal Behavior
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Type A behavior
Paul Ekman
16. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
Little Albert
Tolman
Receptive fields
inhibitory neurotransmitter
17. 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.
olfaction
Free association
Charles Darwin
proactive interference
18. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females
Gender stereotype
parietal lobes
Backward search
Discrimination
19. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
Need
Receptive fields
neurogenesis
Drug
20. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
Herman von Helmholtz
Stimulus Generalization
parallel processing
informed consent
21. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
genetic mapping
spinal cord
Edward Thorndike
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
22. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
hypothalamus
engineering psychologist
Ekman & Friesen
Aaron Beck
23. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
sensory neurons
Extrinsic motivation
Egocentrism
chunks
24. A period after firing when a neuron is returning to its normal polarize state and will only fire again if the incoming message open parentheses impulse) is stronger than usual; returning to arresting state
relative refractory period
Intelligence
frontal lobes
Phonology
25. Threadlike structure within the nucleus of cells that contain genes
primacy effect
Sublimation
functional MRI (fMRI)
chromosome
26. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
Edward Thorndike
Social Interest
Alfred Adler
Psycholinguistics
27. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
elaborative rehearsal
aphasia
synaptic cleft
Approach-avoidance conflict
28. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants
Self-fulfilling prophecy
William Sheldon
Working through
excitatory neurotransmitter
29. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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30. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
control group
neuropsychologist
Phobic disorders
Hermann Ebbinghaus
31. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.
Sociobiology
Group Polarization
midbrain
placebo effect
32. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords
Token economy
Survey
sensory neurons
pupil
33. 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
Howard Gardner
Receptive fields
Double bind
graded potential
34. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
Unconditioned Response
chunks
Subgoal analysis
identical twins
35. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
frequency
Solomon Asch
selection studies
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
36. 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.
Aaron Beck
opponent-process theory of emotion
Collective Unconscious
Deindividuation
37. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival
Vulnerability
Premack principle
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Projective Tests
38. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
Conformity
Survey
replication
Cognitive Psychology
39. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
Resilience
standard deviation
Sucking reflex
Benjamin Whorf
40. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine
thyroid gland
William Sheldon
Electromagnetic Radiation
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
41. Colored part of the eye that regulates size of pupil
Robert Rosenthal
iris
Expectancy Theories
Stressor
42. Rules of proper and acceptable conduct that investigators use to guide psychological research
behavior
Self-actualization
ethics
replication
43. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization
polarization
Learned Helplessness
pseudoscience
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
44. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi
menarche
schema
Solomon Asch
Abnormal Behavior
45. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
Judith Langlois
Variable-ratio Schedule
Reaction Formation
Vulnerability
46. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)
neural impulse
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Thanatology
Critical Period
47. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ on an important dimension
Robert Rosenthal
Ekman & Friesen
axon
Cross-sectional study
48. Sense of smell
central nervous system
olfaction
Anal Stage
Impression Formation
49. Morality based on consequences to self
preconventional level of moral development
central nervous system
Projection
placebo effect
50. Body sense of equilibrium and balance
Ageism
Judith Langlois
vestibular sense
explicit memory