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AP Psychology
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1. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion
Types
maintenance rehearsal
psychoanalyst
Ekman & Friesen
2. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
adrenal glands
gonads
frontal lobes
Personality disorders
3. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Motivation
Trichromats
Functional fixedness
4. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.
school psychologist
Specific phobia
Interpersonal Attraction
Vasocongestion
5. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions
Psychoactive Drug
John Locke
Albert Ellis
Time-out
6. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.
psychoanalyst
Syntax
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Appraisal
7. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
Negative Reinforcement
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
thyroid gland
Consciousness
8. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.
Higher-order Conditioning
Psychoactive Drug
Reasoning
Wernicke's area
9. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them
Fixation
token economy
motivated forgetting
Biofeedback
10. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
peripheral nervous system
Rational-emotive therapy
Residual type of schizophrenia
Depressive disorders
11. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp
amygdala
normal distribution
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
EEG (electroencephalogram)
12. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics
Robert Sternberg
Debriefing
representative sample
Secondary Reinforcer
13. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction
Secondary Sex Characteristics
authoritarian parenting
Francis Galton
Conformity
14. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent
measure of central tendency
Functional fixedness
case study
Leon Festinger
15. An individual's genetic make-up
Major depressive disorder
Gender Identity
genotype
association areas
16. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
Unconscious
Social Interest
Socrates
fraternal twins
17. The human need to fulfill one's potential
Subgoal analysis
Classical Conditioning
self-actualization
endocrine system
18. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
Dream
developmental psychologist
schema
Impression Formation
19. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress
Social Influence
Aaron Beck
Holmes & Rahe
Drug
20. Emotional intelligence
Daniel Goleman
Stanley Milgram
Heuristics
Formal operational stage
21. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
gonads
Skinner Box
Fetus
Paul Ekman
22. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
endocrine system
Gender
Placebo effect
Positive Reinforcement
23. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.
Altruism
Secondary Reinforcer
Family therapy
graded potential
24. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Collective Unconscious
Light
Skinner Box
blind spot
25. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience
Thanatology
heritability
imagery
hippocampus
26. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
schema
pseudoscience
Developmental Psychology
frequency distribution
27. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.
David Rosenhan
Specific phobia
parallel processing
Psychoneuroimmunology
28. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
Personality
Agoraphobia
Libido
audition
29. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
Actor-observer Effect
Psychoanalysis
Kurt Lewin
Aristotle
30. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
Dissociative amnesia
Rationalization
Repression
receptor site
31. Neutral stimulus that - through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus - begins to elicit a conditioned response
psychology
clinical psychologist
Conditioned Stimulus
Mary Cover-Jones
32. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place
Fundamental Attribution Error
Time-out
nervous system
descriptive statistics
33. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality
Hue
forebrain
Antisocial personality disorder
Unconditioned Stimulus
34. Holds information for processing; fragile; also called short term memory or working memory
retroactive interference
Longitudinal Study
short-term storage
Charles Darwin
35. Constructed by Lewis Terman - originally used ratio IQ (MA/CA x 100); now based on deviation from mean
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Oral Stage
structuralism
Reasoning
36. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
Intelligence
Conservation
Tolerance
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
37. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
Convergent thinking
Shaping
Prototype
Debriefing
38. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance
double-blind procedure
Robert Yerkes
Prejudice
Reaction Formation
39. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
statistics
Reactance
random sample
Mainstreaming
40. 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
Plateau phase
Language
forensic psychologist
Preoperational stage
41. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.
Anal Stage
Phoneme
cones
Stanley Schachter
42. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
cerebellum
observer bias
Algorithm
Teratogen
43. An insight therapy - developed be Carl Rogers - that seeks to help people evaluate the world and themselves from their own perspective by providing them with a nondirective environment and unconditional positive regard; also known as person-centered
Learned Helplessness
Client-centered therapy
Mainstreaming
peripheral nervous system
44. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
parasympathetic nervous system
Time-out
emotional intelligence
neuropsychologist
45. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
Heuristics
state-dependent learning
selection studies
Cognitive Psychology
46. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior
Conservation
dopamine
Extrinsic motivation
Motivation
47. The study of the lifelong - often age-related - processes of change in the physical - cognitive - moral - emotional - and social domains of functioning; such changes are rooted in biological mechanisms that are genetically controlled - as well as in
shaping
Developmental Psychology
Holmes & Rahe
fovea
48. The inability to perceive different hues.
Color Blindness
retroactive interference
Brightness
Residual type of schizophrenia
49. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
Rosenthal & Jacobson
humanistic psychology
Receptive fields
Fundamental Attribution Error
50. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood
Collective Unconscious
parathormone
Stimulant
Mainstreaming