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AP Psychology
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1. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory
Fulfillment
resting potential
retrieval
Sensation
2. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Double-blind techniques
Regression
Clark Hull
3. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
Subliminal perception
neural impulse
random sample
memory
4. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
timbre
crystallized intelligence
Babinski reflex
Carol Gilligan
5. 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
Rational-emotive therapy
normal distribution
Reactance
Stimulus Discrimination
6. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
psychobiology
Humanistic theory
descriptive statistics
autonomic nervous system
7. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
nature
Tolman
confounding variable
autonomic nervous system
8. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
neurogenesis
Lucid Dream
retrograde amnesia
Carl Jung
9. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
Equity Theory
Norms
experimental group
observer bias
10. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.
preconscious
ex post facto study
Specific phobia
olfaction
11. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
polarization
parathyroid
Brainstorming
Morpheme
12. Pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning) - stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls - children mimicked play
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Stimulant
Albert Bandura
menarche
13. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
insulin
Psychoneuroimmunology
Howard Gardner
Specific phobia
14. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic value for an organism but that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer
Harry Harlow
gate control theory
descriptive statistics
Secondary Reinforcer
15. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
Kenneth Clark
explicit memory
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Mary Ainsworth
16. Inability to understand or use language
Robert Rosenthal
aphasia
Kenneth Clark
frequency polygon
17. Colored part of the eye that regulates size of pupil
Concept
Learned Helplessness
iris
recessive gene
18. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
ions
percentile score
John B Watson
corpus callosum
19. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
Receptive fields
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Trichromatic theory
clinical psychologist
20. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
Means-ends analysis
Classical Conditioning
Stress
ethics
21. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
Gender Schema Theory
measure of central tendency
Unconditioned Response
Myopic
22. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
anorexia nervosa
Erik Erikson
dualism
23. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
Absolute threshold
pancreas
Aristotle
acetylcholine (ACh)
24. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
Edward Bradford Titchener
identical twins
thyroxine
Subgoal analysis
25. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'
thyroid gland
Fulfillment
Erik Erikson
Concept
26. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
memory
Superstitious Behavior
Homeostasis
Self-efficacy
27. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
midbrain
David Weschler
Unconditioned Stimulus
Dissociative disorders
28. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
chromosome
Abnormal Behavior
strain studies
refractory period
29. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
procedural memory
Ideal Self
Counterconditioning
top-down processing
30. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
Impression Formation
Stanley Schachter
spinal cord
adrenal glands
31. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
peripheral nervous system
Percentile score
Androgynous
Attitudes
32. 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.
Lev Vygotsky
Backward search
Functional fixedness
Actor-observer Effect
33. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
Group
hypothalamus
Henry Murray
Gender Schema Theory
34. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact
dualism
neural impulse
Deindividuation
Sublimation
35. Elements of an experimental situation that might cause a participant to perceive the situation in a certain way or become aware of the purpose of the study and thus bias the participant to behave in a certain way - and in so doing - distort results.
variability
Temperament
Demand characteristics
Martin Seligman
36. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond
demand characteristics
Dichromats
response bias
correlational research
37. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
iris
optic nerve
axon
Optic chiasm
38. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them
Reflex
motivated forgetting
Dementia
ions
39. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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40. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters
synaptic vesicles
Depressive disorders
primacy effect
Coping
41. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease
Psychoneuroimmunology
Wolpe
Longitudinal Study
imagery
42. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
Collective Unconscious
schema
Adolescence
Sensation
43. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement
(cerebral) cortex
moral development
Latency Stage
Ideal Self
44. Small area of retina where image is focused
Syntax
Algorithm
fovea
Wernicke's area
45. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits
Skinner Box
Symptom substitution
Harry Stack Sullivan
theory
46. Did work on short-term memory
flashbulb memories
developmental psychologist
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
William Sheldon
47. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
Withdrawal Symptoms
monocular cues
Equity Theory
Functional fixedness
48. Carries impulses from the eye to the brain
optic nerve
observer bias
Theory of mind
Discrimination
49. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
Equity Theory
Sensation
Trait
Time-out
50. A descriptive statistic that measures the variability of data from the mean of the sample
Karen Horney
standard deviation
eclectic
Spontaneous Recovery