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AP Psychology
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1. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
Noam Chomsky
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Free association
dopamine
2. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Aggression
proactive interference
Sucking reflex
3. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships
Rosenhan
Conflict
ethics
Social Need
4. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior
Emotion
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Trichromatic theory
sensory neurons
5. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior
shaping
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Martin Seligman
Carl Rogers
6. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.
Clark Hull
Means-ends analysis
Delusions
Impression Formation
7. The time in to development of an organism when it is especially sensitive to certain environmental influences; outside of that period the same influences will have far less effect
Excitement phase
Critical Period
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
variability
8. An individual's genetic make-up
neurotransmitters
genotype
Discrimination
Saturation
9. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.
Approach-approach conflict
Discrimination
Actor-observer Effect
aversive conditioning
10. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
procedural memory
Learned helplessness
John Locke
Embryo
11. 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.
Family therapy
Self-efficacy
Secondary Punisher
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
12. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior
Biofeedback
clinical psychologist
Double-blind techniques
adrenal glands
13. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.
prenatal development
interneurons
adaptation
Prevalence
14. Memory for specific information
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Dissociative amnesia
fraternal twins
declarative memory
15. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
Gender
association areas
Validity
Convergent thinking
16. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea
David Rosenhan
parasympathetic nervous system
Karl Wernicke
resting potential
17. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -
Superego
Metal retardation
variability
Self-actualization
18. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
pituitary gland
Drive
counseling psychologist
standard deviation
19. 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.
Stimulus Discrimination
Social Loafing
nerve
Reactance
20. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
habituation
Resilience
Lewis Terman
afferent neuron nerve
21. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher
theory
ex post facto study
family studies
Naturalistic observation
22. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females
Gender stereotype
Withdrawal Symptoms
Noam Chomsky
Psychoanalysis
23. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes
scientific method
fluid intelligence
hindbrain
Hyperopic
24. Biologist; developed theory of evolution; transmutation of species - natural selection - evolution by common descent; 'The Origin of Species' catalogs his voyage on The Beagle
Social Loafing
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Charles Darwin
Anna Freud
25. A test designed to predict a person's future performance
antagonist
Secondary Punisher
aptitude test
anorexia nervosa
26. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants
DNA
adrenal glands
inferential statistics
Gibson & Walk
27. Pioneer in intelligence (IQ) tests - designed a test to identify slow learners in need of help-not applicable in the U.S. because it was too culture-bound (French)
Alfred Binet
Residual type of schizophrenia
Groupthink
Grasping reflex
28. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
brain
Factor analysis
Normal curve
Withdrawal Symptoms
29. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness
Self-perception Theory
procedural memory
preconscious
retrieval
30. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
Wilhelm Wundt
Resistance
hypothesis
refractory period
31. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
Henry Murray
anterograde amnesia
Aversive counterconditioning
authoritative parenting
32. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
Ivan Pavlov
iris
natural selection
independent variable
33. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.
thyroid gland
synaptic vesicles
Backward search
Abraham Maslow
34. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
acetylcholine (ACh)
thyroid gland
binocular cues
35. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities
functional MRI (fMRI)
Abnormal Behavior
Visual cortex
Preconscious
36. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond
demand characteristics
natural selection
Thanatology
structuralism
37. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives
anorexia nervosa
cerebellum
fovea
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
38. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions
random sample
Stanley Milgram
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Ex Post Facto Design
39. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
Norms
storage
elaborative rehearsal
educational psychologist
40. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Ideal Self
just noticeable difference (JND)
Social Psychology
41. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Assessment
Impression Formation
aphasia
42. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
declarative memory
Thanatology
central nervous system
Babinski reflex
43. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
Carol Gilligan
Counterconditioning
brain
median
44. An observable action
strain studies
psychiatrist
behavior
sound localization
45. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results
self-fulfilling prophecy
Sublimation
Metal retardation
Alfred Adler
46. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
Resolution Phase
Rosenhan
Learned Helplessness
genetics
47. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood
Adolescence
Photoreceptors
sympathetic nervous system
Assessment
48. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress
Obedience
population
Shaping
Holmes & Rahe
49. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
Preconscious
Mainstreaming
Type B behavior
Critical Period
50. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine
Case study
thyroid gland
Attributions
Free association