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AP Psychology
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1. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions
Phonology
proactive interference
top-down processing
normal distribution
2. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
Need for achievement
flashbulb memories
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
pineal gland
3. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
Syntax
twin studies
Conservation
measure of central tendency
4. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
Hans Eysenck
Substance Abuser
informed consent
Stanley Schachter
5. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Lawrence Kohlberg
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
sympathetic nervous system
6. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
Robert Yerkes
Survey
Delusions
Gibson & Walk
7. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.
Dream analysis
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Means-ends analysis
Variable-ratio Schedule
8. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Albert Ellis
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Monochromats
Psychotherapy
9. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them
Robert Yerkes
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
aversive conditioning
motivated forgetting
10. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
Rooting reflex
Phallic Stage
temporal lobes
eclectic
11. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation
Resolution Phase
Standard score
Longitudinal Study
Withdrawal Symptoms
12. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
Social Need
ex post facto study
Nonverbal Communication
Ex Post Facto Design
13. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands
Dementia
Vulnerability
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
axon
14. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.
heritability
Unconscious
Genital Stage
Arousal
15. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants
Tolerance
pituitary gland
Orgasm phase
Gibson & Walk
16. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates
Skinner Box
Intimacy
rehearsal
Clark Hull
17. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.
Mediation
Psychoneuroimmunology
moral development
sample
18. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
Charles Spearman
Halo effect
Social Influence
Token economy
19. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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20. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes
optic nerve
Latent Content
retroactive interference
memory span
21. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat
Anorexia Nervosa
theory
midbrain
Conflict
22. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent
variability
Intelligence
cerebellum
case study
23. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.
Rape
Self-actualization
preconscious
temporal lobes
24. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
memory
synaptic cleft
median
Prototype
25. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior
Reasoning
Sociobiology
short-term storage
neuropsychologist
26. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
Syntax
Raymond Cattell
Social Influence
chromosome
27. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.
Dissociative disorders
Thanatology
Prototype
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
28. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
Language
Concept
Photoreceptors
behavioral genetics
29. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
Conflict
Hermann Rorschach
Hue
30. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit
Fetus
Egocentrism
frequency polygon
Dissociative identity disorder
31. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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32. 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
decay
Normal curve
refractory period
33. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.
Phobic disorders
opponent-process theory of emotion
Time-out
Ageism
34. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.
Social Influence
Dream analysis
frontal lobes
Elaboration Likelihood Model
35. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
motor neurons
Symptom substitution
implicit memory
neuropsychologist
36. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth
Fetus
Formal operational stage
Conservation
Concrete operational stage
37. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'
Burnout
Abraham Maslow
adrenal glands
Need for achievement
38. Organizing sensory information so it can be processed by the nervous system
chromosome
encoding
Albert Bandura
Size constancy
39. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment
Rosenhan
Learning
Positive Reinforcement
clinical psychologist
40. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
Alfred Adler
Psychodynamically
Phineas Gage
declarative memory
41. 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
preconventional level of moral development
Self
Ageism
working memory
42. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve
Standard score
Stimulant
Normal curve
Plateau phase
43. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Robert Zajonc
Psychophysics
science
Social Facilitation
44. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information
Primary Reinforcer
Ekman & Friesen
Type A behavior
retroactive interference
45. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
Groupthink
positive psychology
educational psychologist
Approach-approach conflict
46. A donut ring-shaped of loosely connected structures located in the forebrain between the central core and cerebral hemispheres; consists of: septum - cingulate gyrus - endowments - hypothalamus - and to campus - and amygdala; associated with emotions
Double bind
afferent neuron nerve
limbic system
Biofeedback
47. Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation - they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.
Interpersonal Attraction
neuroscience
John Garcia
norepinephrine
48. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions
somatic nervous system
synapse
cohort effect
Circadian Rhythms
49. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.
Reliability
Assessment
state-dependent learning
normal distribution
50. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
sociocultural psychology
neurogenesis
neural impulse
optic nerve