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AP Psychology
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1. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
nonconscious
inferential statistics
Interpretation
psychobiology
2. 'Wernicke's area'; discovered area of left temporal lobe that involved language understanding: person damaged in this area uses correct words but they do not make sense
Psychotic
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Karl Wernicke
synaptic vesicles
3. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
chunks
Percentile score
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
selection studies
4. 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
genotype
Object permanence
Time-out
relative refractory period
5. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life
Divergent thinking
Conditioned Response
Imaginary Audience
Lewis Terman
6. A need or want that causes someone to act
motive
graded potential
neurotransmitters
Reliability
7. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
Visual cortex
Impression Formation
Grasping reflex
Leon Festinger
8. The general state of being aware of and responsive to events in the environment - as well as one's own mental processes
Intelligence
Consciousness
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
normal distribution
9. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.
memory
Masters & Johnson
Symptom substitution
Consciousness
10. 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
refractory period
binocular cues
John B Watson
Primary Punisher
11. Top of the spinal column
Normal curve
synaptic vesicles
brainstem
Free association
12. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response
Skinner Box
evolutionary psychology
Absolute threshold
maintenance rehearsal
13. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement
Imaginary Audience
Free association
Delusions
(cerebral) cortex
14. Deals with the extent to which heredity and the environment each influence behavior
Erik Erikson
Premack principle
nature-nurture controversy
audition
15. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
achievement test
nature
limbic system
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
16. 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
central nervous system
psychometrician
graded potential
Conditioning
17. 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
dominant genes
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Demand characteristics
18. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning
Ernst Weber
Phineas Gage
Gibson & Walk
Id
19. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.
Reasoning
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Prejudice
20. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
Insight therapy
postconventional level of moral development
Prejudice
Kurt Lewin
21. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
mutation
Double bind
Learned Helplessness
explicit memory
22. A descriptive research method in which researchers study behavior in its natural context.
endocrine glands
psychoanalytic
schema
Naturalistic observation
23. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Robert Rosenthal
moral development
ESP
mean
24. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses
rehearsal
Conflict
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Rooting reflex
25. 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
Law of Effect
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
brain
receptor site
26. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
Vulnerability
Self-efficacy
optic nerve
Orgasm phase
27. According to Piaget - the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences
Functional fixedness
aversive conditioning
audition
Accommodation
28. 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
Id
Appraisal
school psychologist
29. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
Carl Rogers
crystallized intelligence
Preoperational stage
Color Blindness
30. Small area of retina where image is focused
fovea
synaptic cleft
Defense Mechanism
Aggression
31. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities
Robert Sternberg
Kurt Lewin
Social Psychology
monism
32. 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
Algorithm
Stereotypes
bulimia nervosa
Anna O.
33. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
vestibular sense
Variable-ratio Schedule
Phobic disorders
anorexia nervosa
34. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
recessive gene
Halo effect
Daniel Goleman
polygenic inheritance
35. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
Developmental Psychology
Counterconditioning
Reaction Formation
Hermann Ebbinghaus
36. Noradrenaline; chemical which is excitatory - similar to adrenaline - and affects arousal and memory; raises blood pressure by causing blood vessels to become constricted - but also carried by bloodstream to the anterior pituitary which relaxes ACTH
Unconscious
Overjustification effect
norepinephrine
Norms
37. 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.
Learning
Masters & Johnson
Gender stereotype
Family therapy
38. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.
cones
Trichromatic theory
Rosenhan
social psychologist
39. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
confounding variable
Reaction Formation
Myopic
40. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
Temperament
pineal gland
Attitudes
Representative sample
41. Memory for specific information
monocular cues
declarative memory
Representative sample
Unconditioned Response
42. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
sensory memory
maintenance rehearsal
Creativity
43. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
lens
Preoperational stage
imagery
Ivan Pavlov
44. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
Self-actualization
debriefing
shaping
Social Need
45. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
Mainstreaming
Rooting reflex
synaptic vesicles
normal distribution
46. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
Thanatology
imagery
audition
Brainstorming
47. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data
proactive interference
aphasia
pancreas
statistics
48. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time
Insight therapy
Karl Wernicke
Ego
Longitudinal Study
49. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
Psychodynamically
Positive Reinforcement
Fundamental Attribution Error
introspection
50. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
Morality
Punishment
maintenance rehearsal
Arousal