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AP Psychology
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1. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
Collective Unconscious
Preoperational stage
adrenal glands
Descriptive Studies
2. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place
behavior
declarative memory
working memory
synaptic cleft
3. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Equity Theory
temporal lobes
Transduction
action potential
4. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal
James-Lange theory of emotion
cohort effect
Cognitive theories
Lucid Dream
5. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance
Convergent thinking
Panic Attack
Leon Festinger
Carl Jung
6. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
Conservation
Edward Bradford Titchener
Self-efficacy
Attachment
7. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood
Electromagnetic Radiation
Divergent thinking
Adolescence
Karl Wernicke
8. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'
adrenal glands
Oedipus Complex
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Actor-observer Effect
9. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
Subliminal perception
hormone
Clark Hull
authoritative parenting
10. Personality assessment; created the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) with Christina Morgan - stated that the need to achieve varied in strength in different people and influenced their tendency to approach and evaluate their own performances
Holmes & Rahe
Henry Murray
lens
Interpretation
11. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
Intrinsic motivation
Social Facilitation
motivated forgetting
parallel processing
12. Establish the relationship between two variables
Self-efficacy
correlational research
Overjustification effect
state-dependent learning
13. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
Stress
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Saturation
nurture
14. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
population
Approach-avoidance conflict
hypothesis
Gestalt psychology
15. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments
Superego
forebrain
behaviorism
Psychoactive Drug
16. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning
survey research
William James
Halo effect
triarchic theory of intelligence
17. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged
habituation
Obedience
ethnocentrism
Approach-approach conflict
18. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
semantic memory
Self-actualization
difference threshold
Defense Mechanism
19. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.
Cognitive Psychology
Secondary Punisher
parathyroid
behavioral genetics
20. Retrieval cues that match original information work better
experimenter bias
encoding specificity principle
neural impulse
Expectancy Theories
21. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
Withdrawal Symptoms
measure of central tendency
Anna O.
Mary Cover-Jones
22. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature
Saccades
Dementia
retina
Backward search
23. Graph of a frequency distribution that shows the number of instances of obtained scores - usually with the data points connect by straight lines
frequency polygon
elaborative rehearsal
frequency distribution
twin studies
24. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
positive psychology
flashbulb memories
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
crystallized intelligence
25. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data
Assessment
Prosocial Behavior
Factor analysis
fluid intelligence
26. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
Drive
Appraisal
recessive gene
Benjamin Whorf
27. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
preconscious
Alfred Adler
ex post facto study
declarative memory
28. Areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions - rather - they are involved in higher mental processes such as thinking - planning - and communicating
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Size constancy
association areas
participant
29. 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
Logic
graded potential
Wernicke's area
Embryo
30. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
state-dependent learning
standard deviation
Latent Learning
Longitudinal Study
31. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm
Plateau phase
parathyroid
Phillip Zimbardo
Visual cortex
32. Perspective developed by freud - which assumes that psychological problems are the result of anxiety resulting from unresolved conflicts and forces of which a person might be unaware
Primary Punisher
psychoanalytic
Token economy
Health psychology
33. Following a strong emotion - an opposing emotion counters the first emotion - lessening the experience of that emotion; on repeated occasions - the opposing emotion becomes stronger
opponent-process theory of emotion
Anorexia Nervosa
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Cognitive theories
34. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
serotonin
demand characteristics
Learned Helplessness
psychiatrist
35. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
antagonist
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
selective attention
36. Body sense of equilibrium and balance
vestibular sense
Opponent-process theory
sensory adaptation
Learned helplessness
37. The biologically based categories of male and female
antagonist
forebrain
Erik Erikson
Sex
38. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
Psychodynamically
experiment
motor projection areas
Aristotle
39. 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
positive psychology
James-Lange theory of emotion
René Descartes
Superstitious Behavior
40. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.
Psychotic
Unconditioned Stimulus
bottom-up processing
Learned helplessness
41. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Psychoactive Drug
Charles Spearman
temporal lobes
Light
42. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
Punishment
Id
Appraisal
Harry Stack Sullivan
43. Moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication
Lawrence Kohlberg
ESP
recessive gene
experimenter bias
44. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter
natural selection
agonist
retina
blind spot
45. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.
Psychoanalysis
imagery
Photoreceptors
cerebellum
46. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
Cross-sectional Studies
Sensorimotor stage
long-term memory
axon
47. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
Law of Effect
Stress
Resistance
behavioral genetics
48. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
dualism
authoritative parenting
Resolution Phase
measure of central tendency
49. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
unconscious
Howard Gardner
Trichromats
Group
50. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
René Descartes
midbrain
menopause
Social Facilitation