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AP Psychology
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1. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
replication
response bias
Backward search
Object permanence
2. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics
Case study
neural plasticity
Gender Identity
Altruism
3. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
theory
Algorithm
Temperament
Sucking reflex
4. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
Subgoal analysis
developmental psychologist
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
Sensation
5. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
Specific phobia
Phineas Gage
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
dendrites
6. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain
gate control theory
Self-efficacy
Residual type of schizophrenia
natural selection
7. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships
zone of proximal development
Solomon Asch
Debriefing
Social Need
8. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input
eclectic
ESP
occipital lobes
monocular cues
9. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
Wernicke's area
Formal operational stage
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Broca's area
10. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.
maintenance rehearsal
Collective Unconscious
demand characteristics
Body Language
11. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Negative Reinforcement
inhibitory neurotransmitter
12. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
double-blind procedure
psychiatrist
ex post facto study
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
13. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits
Self-actualization
Harry Stack Sullivan
adaptation
Group Polarization
14. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
habituation
Dream analysis
Type A behavior
15. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
Type B behavior
declarative memory
Positive Reinforcement
representative sample
16. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
William Sheldon
Descriptive Studies
Decision making
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
17. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Unconditioned Response
Interpersonal Attraction
Group
18. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
polygenic inheritance
Harry Stack Sullivan
Morpheme
Type B behavior
19. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
Moro reflex
neuron
Law of Effect
endocrine system
20. Elements of an experimental situation that might cause a participant to perceive the situation in a certain way or become aware of the purpose of the study and thus bias the participant to behave in a certain way - and in so doing - distort results.
Higher-order Conditioning
Dissociative amnesia
Demand characteristics
Cognitive theories
21. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.
midbrain
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
Stanley Milgram
Conformity
22. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another
Fixed-interval Schedule
Psychoactive Drug
strain studies
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
23. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
maintenance rehearsal
Unconditioned Stimulus
Phallic Stage
pineal gland
24. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.
Means-ends analysis
Circadian Rhythms
pitch
Insight therapy
25. 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
Descriptive Studies
Preoperational stage
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Carol Gilligan
26. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
transfer appropriate processing
Fixation
Francis Galton
schema
27. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
endocrine glands
Variable-ratio Schedule
Self-efficacy
Representative sample
28. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
shaping
Social Loafing
action potential
Rationalization
29. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
sensory memory
pituitary gland
Signal Detection Theory
Consciousness
30. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
Standardization
recency effect
Antisocial personality disorder
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
31. 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.
Fundamental Attribution Error
Convergent thinking
corpus callosum
Deindividuation
32. Threadlike structure within the nucleus of cells that contain genes
chromosome
Classical Conditioning
Antisocial personality disorder
normal distribution
33. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
Regression
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
educational psychologist
random sample
34. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease
Psychoneuroimmunology
Formal operational stage
Moro reflex
behaviorism
35. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
storage
set point
just noticeable difference (JND)
Critical Period
36. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
Punishment
ethics
Latency Stage
genetic mapping
37. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe
hindbrain
midbrain
Noam Chomsky
Mary Ainsworth
38. Sense of taste
Need
Approach-avoidance conflict
Visual cortex
gustation
39. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.
Working through
just noticeable difference (JND)
Prosocial Behavior
Carl Jung
40. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
psychobiology
procedural memory
Social phobia
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
41. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
Stanley Schachter
educational psychologist
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
industrial/organizational psychologist
42. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards
peripheral nervous system
Metal retardation
token economy
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
43. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands
encoding
fraternal twins
antagonist
axon
44. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
blind spot
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Group Polarization
45. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
Concrete operational stage
psychobiology
humanistic psychology
selection studies
46. 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
Learning
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Lucid Dream
47. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
serotonin
Tolman
Edward Bradford Titchener
Preoperational stage
48. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.
nature
Dream analysis
Edward Thorndike
Rooting reflex
49. Number of wavelengths that pass a point in a given amount of time; determines hue of light and the pitch of a sound
sample
Equity Theory
Intimacy
frequency
50. Holds information for processing; fragile; also called short term memory or working memory
split brain patients
engineering psychologist
short-term storage
Sensorimotor stage