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AP Psychology
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1. Maintenance of a constant state of inner stability or balance
Id
Homeostasis
Mary Cover-Jones
Dependence
2. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
optic nerve
amnesia
Charles Spearman
Algorithm
3. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
Creativity
observer bias
Spontaneous Recovery
Darley & Latane
4. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning
Judith Langlois
survey research
Alfred Binet
Wernicke's area
5. A group of psychological disorders characterized by a lack of reality testing and by deterioration of social and intellectual functioning and personality beginning before age 45 and lasting at least 6 months
Masters & Johnson
thalamus
emotional intelligence
Schizophrenic disorders
6. '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
Karl Wernicke
Health psychology
Collective Unconscious
participant
7. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
Grasping reflex
Edward Thorndike
binocular cues
pons
8. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
Child abuse
naturalistic observation
Algorithm
Abraham Maslow
9. Humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization - transcendence
Holmes & Rahe
Raw score
Personality
Abraham Maslow
10. The increase in sensitivity to light that occurs when the illumination level changes from high to low - causing chemicals in the rods and cones to regenerate and return to their inactive state.
Self-actualization
Kurt Lewin
Actor-observer Effect
Dark adaptation
11. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
Judith Langlois
Self-serving Bias
Social Psychology
Higher-order Conditioning
12. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
Archetypes
Family therapy
serotonin
opponent-process theory of emotion
13. Biologist; developed theory of evolution; transmutation of species - natural selection - evolution by common descent; 'The Origin of Species' catalogs his voyage on The Beagle
Deviation IQ
observer bias
Charles Darwin
Schema
14. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
epinephrine
central nervous system
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
authoritarian parenting
15. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
Phallic Stage
Motive
Attachment
primacy effect
16. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.
endorphins
Karl Wernicke
Circadian Rhythms
Symptom substitution
17. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
Dementia
motor neurons
decay
Attachment
18. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands
Reliability
optic nerve
Arousal
Little Albert
19. Piaget's thrid stage of cognitive development (lasting from approximately age 6 or 7 to age 11 or 12) - during which the child develops the ability to understand constant factors in the environment - rules - and higher-order symbolic systems
Debriefing
top-down processing
Concrete operational stage
Ivan Pavlov
20. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area
achievement test
EEG (electroencephalogram)
pseudoscience
Creativity
21. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement
psychoanalyst
Gestalt psychology
experiment
Group Polarization
22. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
Darley & Latane
receptor site
frontal lobes
Trait
23. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Conservation
Approach-approach conflict
Placenta
Motive
24. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Zajonc & Markus
Light
Learned helplessness
Survey
25. Reflex that causes a newborn to turn the head toward a light touch on lips or cheek
Decision making
Rape
aversive conditioning
Rooting reflex
26. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
Zajonc & Markus
Lev Vygotsky
independent variable
pancreas
27. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond
Darley & Latane
Stimulus Discrimination
empiricism
demand characteristics
28. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
Holmes & Rahe
authoritative parenting
Edward Bradford Titchener
range
29. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
Genital Stage
Teratogen
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Counterconditioning
30. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
Phallic Stage
gene
Langer & Rodin
Erik Erikson
31. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.
Phillip Zimbardo
Prejudice
David McClelland
pineal gland
32. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill
Paul Ekman
Temperament
zone of proximal development
sympathetic nervous system
33. A branch of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body functions; it calms the body after sympathetic stimulation
parasympathetic nervous system
science
ethnocentrism
short-term storage
34. Deals with the extent to which heredity and the environment each influence behavior
Dissociative identity disorder
nature-nurture controversy
ex post facto study
Depressive disorders
35. Constructed by Lewis Terman - originally used ratio IQ (MA/CA x 100); now based on deviation from mean
Sensation
Social Facilitation
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
interference
36. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time
Konrad Lorenz
genetic mapping
episodic memory
Backward search
37. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and longstanding maladaptive behaviors that typically cause stress and/or social or occupational problems.
Ivan Pavlov
Social Facilitation
parathyroid
Personality disorders
38. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
episodic memory
Sensation
Darley & Latane
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
39. Inability to understand or use language
Drug
Dissociative identity disorder
Manifest Content
aphasia
40. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
pineal gland
Variable-ratio Schedule
Phallic Stage
myelin sheath
41. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.
resting potential
Major depressive disorder
Humanistic theory
Walter B. Cannon
42. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
anorexia nervosa
Herman von Helmholtz
variable
Visual cortex
43. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Equity Theory
parathyroid
Albert Bandura
Rape
44. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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45. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Charles Spearman
Self-actualization
Representative sample
excitatory neurotransmitter
46. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
ESP
midbrain
Temperament
Gender Schema Theory
47. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities
Interpretation
Kurt Lewin
autonomic nervous system
Need
48. Perspective that seeks to explain and predict behaviors by analyzing how the human brain developed over time - how it functions - and how input from the environment affects human behaviors
Karen Horney
Syntax
evolutionary psychology
Latency Stage
49. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood
hippocampus
Adolescence
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Panic Attack
50. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait
Prosocial Behavior
Standard score
dominant genes
Longitudinal Study