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AP Psychology
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1. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
decay
memory span
Orgasm phase
Fulfillment
2. 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
Delusions
Social Loafing
thyroid gland
3. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality
forebrain
Reasoning
Aggression
Decentration
4. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
social psychologist
Validity
Robert Rosenthal
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
5. A person's sense of being male or female
sensory neurons
norepinephrine
hypothesis
Gender Identity
6. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions
Conservation
hormone
Gender Identity
Alfred Adler
7. Primary area for processing visual information
occipital lobes
Antisocial personality disorder
Self-efficacy
Arousal
8. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
Demand characteristics
Decentration
mode
recessive gene
9. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after predetermined but varying amounts of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once after each interval
Variable-interval Schedule
Bulimia Nervosa
mean
demand characteristics
10. 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
Kenneth Clark
insulin
Dependence
working memory
11. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it
nature
Longitudinal Study
Projective Tests
Reinforcer
12. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
thyroxine
Size constancy
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
peripheral nervous system
13. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches
engineering psychologist
Delusions
eclectic
Placebo effect
14. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
psychology
Benjamin Whorf
Dark adaptation
structuralism
15. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives
David Rosenhan
Linguistics
Approach-approach conflict
episodic memory
16. Developed one of the first projective tests - the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story - the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary
Hermann Rorschach
Elaboration Likelihood Model
just noticeable difference (JND)
David Weschler
17. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
psychiatrist
Fundamental Attribution Error
Conditioned Response
Self-perception Theory
18. Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of - and desire to avoid - situations in which the person might be exposed to scrutiny by others and might behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way.
Longitudinal Study
pseudoscience
placebo effect
Social phobia
19. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
synaptic cleft
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Aristotle
Anxiety
20. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ
Concept
Cross-sectional Studies
Free association
Heuristics
21. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems
psychology
variable
counseling psychologist
Normal curve
22. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
neural plasticity
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
replication
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
23. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
Convergent thinking
Gender Identity
hypothesis
median
24. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
motive
Primary Reinforcer
Emotion
25. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
debriefing
double-blind procedure
Drive
levels-of-processing approach
26. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.
Placenta
Superego
Raw score
variability
27. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them
motivated forgetting
Archetypes
Color Blindness
ex post facto study
28. '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
Social Categorization
Divergent thinking
Electromagnetic Radiation
Karl Wernicke
29. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research
endorphins
Gibson & Walk
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Lev Vygotsky
30. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
instinct
Light
Konrad Lorenz
temporal lobes
31. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
Variable-ratio Schedule
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
schema
Self-perception Theory
32. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
Raw score
Dark adaptation
hypothalamus
Naturalistic observation
33. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
implicit memory
storage
anorexia nervosa
Primary Reinforcer
34. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
receptor site
psychiatrist
vestibular sense
Need for achievement
35. 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.
Egocentrism
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Psychoanalysis
Aristotle
36. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works
authoritative parenting
functionalism
Lev Vygotsky
hypothalamus
37. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
Androgynous
Impression Formation
Holmes & Rahe
Puberty
38. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
efferent neuron nerve
Stimulant
Model
Langer & Rodin
39. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results
Phallic Stage
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
consolidation
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
40. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
experimental group
Object permanence
encoding specificity principle
41. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
recessive gene
Ekman & Friesen
aversive conditioning
Hue
42. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
Creativity
Standard score
humanistic psychology
Judith Langlois
43. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
recessive gene
psychology
Extinction (operant conditioning)
synaptic vesicles
44. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
authoritative parenting
Adolescence
Shaping
Double-blind techniques
45. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; criticized Freud - stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses - rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts - neurotic trends; concept of 'basic anxiety'
pituitary gland
Optic chiasm
sensory memory
Karen Horney
46. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
Time-out
Personality
statistics
Superstitious Behavior
47. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
Gibson & Walk
endorphins
Charles Spearman
Phoneme
48. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness
Backward search
Martin Seligman
Wernicke's area
antagonist
49. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
Rosenhan
Excitement phase
antagonist
Emotion
50. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.
nature-nurture controversy
Gender Identity
strain studies
Conformity