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AP Psychology
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1. The human need to fulfill one's potential
scientific method
Aggression
normal distribution
self-actualization
2. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.
Major depressive disorder
Howard Gardner
Preoperational stage
Syntax
3. 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
Noam Chomsky
endocrine system
Developmental Psychology
Cross-sectional Studies
4. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus
replication
Conditioned Response
Consciousness
Absolute threshold
5. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.
Dream
Projective Tests
Double bind
Id
6. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.
Intimacy
action potential
Imaginary Audience
Systematic desensitization
7. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
experiment
polygenic inheritance
preconventional level of moral development
Positive Reinforcement
8. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society
Gender
Denial
Conditioning
midbrain
9. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
Representative sample
bulimia nervosa
Vasocongestion
Panic Attack
10. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence
functionalism
Edward Thorndike
Robert Rosenthal
blind spot
11. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
observer bias
Anorexia Nervosa
Phobic disorders
Group
12. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
Mainstreaming
Temperament
Carol Gilligan
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
13. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
confounding variable
Fundamental Attribution Error
frontal lobes
fraternal twins
14. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
Elizabeth Loftus
normal distribution
long-term potentiation
occipital lobes
15. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand
Grasping reflex
Albert Ellis
Factor analysis
control group
16. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning
Observational Learning Theory
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
Orgasm phase
survey research
17. Adrenaline; activates a sympathetic nervous system by making the heart beat faster - stopping digestion - enlarging pupils - sending sugar into the bloodstream - preparing a blood clot faster
Hue
Impression Formation
epinephrine
Charles Darwin
18. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
Self
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
frequency polygon
insulin
19. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Puberty
Need for achievement
Prosocial Behavior
Edward Thorndike
20. Organ lying between the stomach and small intestine; regulates blood sugar by secreting to regulating hormones insulin and glucagon
long-term memory
pancreas
forebrain
Psychoneuroimmunology
21. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
Conditioned Stimulus
Social Categorization
motor projection areas
aptitude test
22. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
William James
Hermann Ebbinghaus
midbrain
Model
23. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Reasoning
Motive
Grammar
24. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one
Prototype
consolidation
insulin
all-or-none principle
25. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data
Superstitious Behavior
Factor analysis
Harry Harlow
anorexia nervosa
26. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
Francis Galton
Social Influence
Self-efficacy
epinephrine
27. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
Secondary Reinforcer
Rationalization
Rooting reflex
Fixed-interval Schedule
28. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.
dendrites
Learned helplessness
Fixed-ratio Schedule
axon terminal
29. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.
Reactance
Teratogen
pupil
fovea
30. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
Hyperopic
Rationalization
frequency polygon
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
31. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
neurogenesis
Conditioning
motor neurons
flashbulb memories
32. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
Masters & Johnson
Types
Wolpe
Temperament
33. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior
twin studies
afferent neuron nerve
random sample
parathyroid
34. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Stimulus Generalization
Displacement
Secondary Reinforcer
35. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
Brainstorming
Psychotic
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Variable-ratio Schedule
36. 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
variable
association areas
Absolute threshold
frequency
37. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.
Withdrawal Symptoms
Charles Darwin
Fulfillment
Psychophysics
38. Creates a computerized image using x-rays passed through the brain
evolutionary psychology
Dark adaptation
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Creativity
39. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes
pituitary gland
Emotion
Insomnia
DNA
40. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent
forensic psychologist
pseudoscience
Ideal Self
anterograde amnesia
41. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
binocular cues
nonconscious
Darley & Latane
David Rosenhan
42. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
Gestalt psychology
Bonding
Fundamental Attribution Error
Substance Abuser
43. 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
Consciousness
Expectancy Theories
Conformity
44. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction
behaviorism
Rational-emotive therapy
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Nonverbal Communication
45. Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information - usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.
bulimia nervosa
Dissociative amnesia
correlational research
optic nerve
46. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation
Phineas Gage
Prototype
Learned Helplessness
science
47. 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.
retrograde amnesia
phenotype
Variable-interval Schedule
Family therapy
48. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.
Visual cortex
Secondary Sex Characteristics
gene
Higher-order Conditioning
49. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.
Reactance
transfer appropriate processing
Anorexia Nervosa
Consciousness
50. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
anterograde amnesia
neuron
Light
Morality