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AP Psychology
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1. Sets of strategies - rather than strict rules - that act as guidelines for discovery-oriented problem solving.
Substance Abuser
Algorithm
Libido
Heuristics
2. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience
identical twins
Major depressive disorder
Reinforcer
imagery
3. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites
synapse
pitch
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Robert Rosenthal
4. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
experiment
authoritarian parenting
Gender Schema Theory
Socrates
5. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
Creativity
Self-efficacy
dependent variable
Reflex
6. 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
memory span
synaptic vesicles
Learned helplessness
confounding variable
7. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
inferential statistics
behaviorism
cochlea
dualism
8. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
Gender Identity
Myopic
long-term potentiation
Raw score
9. Memory for specific information
Androgynous
declarative memory
Alfred Binet
Self-perception Theory
10. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
percentile score
Variable-interval Schedule
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
central nervous system
11. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results
self-fulfilling prophecy
neurotransmitters
structuralism
Hermann Ebbinghaus
12. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy
Placebo effect
memory
13. Neurotransmitter that affects sleep - arousal - mood - appetite; lack of it is linked with depression
serotonin
Libido
authoritative parenting
Resistance
14. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions
Stimulus Discrimination
Gazzaniga or Sperry
top-down processing
Photoreceptors
15. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
Prototype
Withdrawal Symptoms
behavior
Reactance
16. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
Motive
sensory memory
audition
structuralism
17. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.
Interpretation
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Concept
Obedience
18. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
visual acuity
hindbrain
Social Interest
human genomes
19. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
pineal gland
brainstem
difference threshold
long-term potentiation
20. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
median
Standardization
consolidation
Defense Mechanism
21. An environmental stimulus that affects an organism in physically or psychologically injurious ways - usually producing anxiety - tension - and physiological arousal
Stressor
placebo
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Rooting reflex
22. Learning; systematic desensitization
Abraham Maslow
Child abuse
Manifest Content
Wolpe
23. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Conservation
Algorithm
Specific phobia
24. Style of parenting marked by emotional coldness - imposing rules and expecting obedience
Rationalization
authoritarian parenting
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Rape
25. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
rods
Creativity
Expectancy Theories
26. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
Elizabeth Loftus
polygenic inheritance
Residual type of schizophrenia
Attributions
27. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
lens
hormone
Androgynous
Social Need
28. The human need to fulfill one's potential
aversive conditioning
self-actualization
Cross-sectional Studies
chromosome
29. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
unconscious
forebrain
action potential
psychologist
30. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)
chunks
pupil
ethics
Robert Sternberg
31. Conditioning in which an increase or decrease in the probability that a behavior will recur is affected by the delivery of reinforcement or punishment as a consequence of the behavior;
Gordon Allport
Operant Conditioning
David Weschler
Intelligence
32. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure
audition
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
endorphins
pons
33. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.
fovea
Ideal Self
Prosocial Behavior
Monochromats
34. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population
Conditioning
hormone
Heritability
Language
35. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.
René Descartes
Sociobiology
Anna O.
gonads
36. Noradrenaline; chemical which is excitatory - similar to adrenaline - and affects arousal and memory; raises blood pressure by causing blood vessels to become constricted - but also carried by bloodstream to the anterior pituitary which relaxes ACTH
behaviorism
Antisocial personality disorder
norepinephrine
Manifest Content
37. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
Saturation
endorphins
replication
convolutions
38. The cessation of the ability to reproduce
cohort effect
Preconscious
menarche
menopause
39. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts
descriptive statistics
Bystander Effect
parietal lobes
Leon Festinger
40. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
Fulfillment
Konrad Lorenz
Libido
Standardization
41. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Prototype
Motive
Gordon Allport
Type A behavior
42. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females
Gender stereotype
Cognitive Psychology
Reliability
selection studies
43. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes
theory
gonads
Backward search
Percentile score
44. Depth cues that are based on one eye
monocular cues
informed consent
Hermann Ebbinghaus
central nervous system
45. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
Francis Galton
Stereotypes
Paul Ekman
explicit memory
46. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
Gender Identity
graded potential
thyroxine
Social Facilitation
47. Able to see objects at a distance clearly but having trouble seeing things up close; farsighted
Humanistic theory
Phallic Stage
Hyperopic
thalamus
48. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Emotion
mutation
conventional level of moral development
49. Intelligence; found that specific mental talents were highly correlated - concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled 'g' (general ability)
Dichromats
Charles Spearman
Intimacy
behavioral genetics
50. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
experimental group
Superego
hindbrain
Genital Stage