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AP Psychology
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1. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
developmental psychologist
difference threshold
optic nerve
Survey
2. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
Superstitious Behavior
endorphins
Dissociative amnesia
Drug
3. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed
forensic psychologist
memory span
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
hippocampus
4. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups
Discrimination
Concordance rate
Wilhelm Wundt
Dissociative disorders
5. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
zone of proximal development
Unconditioned Response
sympathetic nervous system
Gender
6. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe
Bulimia Nervosa
Unconditioned Response
Social Influence
Francis Galton
7. The biochemical processes that make it easier for the neuron to respond again when it has been stimulated
Fetus
binocular cues
iris
long-term potentiation
8. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.
Martin Seligman
hypnosis
Antisocial personality disorder
Gestalt psychology
9. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
Erik Erikson
Experimental design
Interpersonal Attraction
humanistic psychology
10. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.
Hue
Social Need
Embryo
humanistic psychology
11. The process by which individuals lose their self-awareness and distinctive personality in the context of a group - which may lead them to engage in antinormative behavior.
Reactance
Consciousness
interference
Deindividuation
12. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
Convergent thinking
Phobic disorders
habituation
Behavior therapy
13. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment
Herman von Helmholtz
synaptic vesicles
Mary Ainsworth
Transduction
14. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste
random sample
Unconscious
Gordon Allport
glial cells
15. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
binocular cues
instinct
16. Creates a computerized image using a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Personal Fable
polygenic inheritance
Social Categorization
17. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
significant difference
ESP
Ivan Pavlov
case study
18. An observable action
behavior
population
Ideal Self
Leon Festinger
19. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
chunks
Fulfillment
mode
midbrain
20. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
pitch
Withdrawal Symptoms
Self-efficacy
Light
21. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
Descriptive Studies
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Optic chiasm
Morpheme
22. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
Standardization
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Dementia
Abraham Maslow
23. 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.
Discrimination
Schema
limbic system
Anxiety
24. The situation that occurs when the drug becomes part of the body's functioning and produces withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued
Dependence
Benjamin Whorf
Adolescence
John Garcia
25. 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
Morality
Residual type of schizophrenia
Skinner Box
Tolerance
26. Style of parenting marked by emotional coldness - imposing rules and expecting obedience
fovea
natural selection
Kenneth Clark
authoritarian parenting
27. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Harry Stack Sullivan
dopamine
authoritarian parenting
28. The second level of the three organizational structures of the brain that receives signals from other parts of the brain or spinal cord and either relays the information to other parts of the brain or causes the body to act immediately; involved in m
midbrain
endocrine glands
pancreas
Psychotic
29. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions
Time-out
Survey
Albert Ellis
optic nerve
30. Growth in the ability to tell right from wrong - control impulses - and act ethically
control group
Gender Schema Theory
Social Need
moral development
31. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
Kenneth Clark
Lev Vygotsky
brainstem
correlational research
32. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
psychoanalytic
Aggression
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
schema
33. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)
experiment
William Sheldon
Carol Gilligan
Obedience
34. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Robert Rosenthal
Lucid Dream
Higher-order Conditioning
Little Albert
35. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
motive
mutation
inhibitory neurotransmitter
flashbulb memories
36. A state of consciousness that occurs during sleep - usually accompanied by vivid visual - tactile - or auditory imagery.
Teratogen
B.F. Skinner
Defense Mechanism
Dream
37. The expression of genes
clinical psychologist
Elaboration Likelihood Model
hindbrain
phenotype
38. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Substance Abuser
Saccades
independent variable
39. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
gene
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Adolescence
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
40. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
Zygote
opponent-process theory of emotion
twin studies
Time-out
41. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
René Descartes
Grasping reflex
postconventional level of moral development
temporal lobes
42. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints
Decentration
Trait
Gender Identity
antagonist
43. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
structuralism
Raw score
aphasia
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
44. Netlike system of neurons that weaves through limbic system and plays an important role in attention - arousal - and alert functions; arouses and alerts higher parts of the brain; anesthetics work by temporary shutting off RF system
Psychodynamically
Learning
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Blood-Brain Barrier
45. Observed group differences based on the era when people were born and grew up - exposing them to particular experiences that may affect the results of cross-sectional studies
cohort effect
Punishment
participant
Primary Reinforcer
46. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.
Self-serving Bias
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
neural plasticity
Naturalistic observation
47. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow
Vasocongestion
Thanatology
Darley & Latane
descriptive statistics
48. Inability to understand or use language
Longitudinal Study
aphasia
Absolute threshold
Masters & Johnson
49. Carries impulses from the eye to the brain
gate control theory
Psychotherapy
optic nerve
Latent Content
50. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
nurture
Oedipus Complex
polygenic inheritance
Social Interest