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AP Psychology
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1. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
Group Polarization
Model
vestibular sense
antagonist
2. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
Consciousness
Reaction Formation
theory
Tolman
3. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior
bottom-up processing
Morpheme
twin studies
Validity
4. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
Case study
Descriptive Studies
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Ernst Weber
5. Memory; studied memorization of meaningless words
Hermann Ebbinghaus
relative refractory period
Karl Wernicke
chunks
6. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event
procedural memory
retrograde amnesia
Attachment
Wechsler intelligence tests
7. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
neurogenesis
Charles Darwin
crystallized intelligence
Zajonc & Markus
8. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
Naturalistic observation
Functional fixedness
Psycholinguistics
Object permanence
9. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment
Learning
corpus callosum
gustation
random sample
10. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses
encoding
Gender stereotype
photoreceptors
Arousal
11. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
Albert Bandura
Sociobiology
Psychophysics
Edward Bradford Titchener
12. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.
Prevalence
Variable-interval Schedule
Conditioning
Intelligence
13. 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
Secondary Reinforcer
evolutionary psychology
developmental psychologist
sympathetic nervous system
14. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results
memory span
self-fulfilling prophecy
gustation
endorphins
15. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
nerve
Language
Obedience
Zajonc & Markus
16. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
bulimia nervosa
Homeostasis
state-dependent learning
iris
17. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness
health psychologist
Egocentrism
Aristotle
Expectancy Theories
18. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
Hans Eysenck
lens
consolidation
Functional fixedness
19. 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.
Dissociative amnesia
Anna O.
Specific phobia
Backward search
20. Period of development from conception until birth
Regression
motive
Subgoal analysis
prenatal development
21. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.
mode
Displacement
gene
Psychotic
22. A test score that has not been transformed or converted in any way
Raw score
motor projection areas
interference
Need for achievement
23. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
Motive
Altruism
set point
Theory of mind
24. The suppression of one bit of information by another
significant difference
interference
Withdrawal Symptoms
chunks
25. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
Phobic disorders
Formal operational stage
social psychologist
storage
26. 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?'
Erik Erikson
motor neurons
Higher-order Conditioning
Rooting reflex
27. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
Hermann Ebbinghaus
developmental psychologist
Conservation
Stimulus Discrimination
28. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
emotional intelligence
Need
Delusions
Gender Schema Theory
29. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment
Moro reflex
Rosenhan
Cognitive Psychology
Descriptive Studies
30. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism
Linguistics
occipital lobes
Paul Ekman
Collective Unconscious
31. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons
Dementia
postconventional level of moral development
Observational Learning Theory
efferent neuron nerve
32. A mass of tissue that is attached to the wall f the uterus and connected to the developing fetus by the umbilical cord; it supplies nutrients and eliminates waste products
Placenta
engineering psychologist
Lucid Dream
kinesthesis
33. The prenatal organism from the 5th through the 49th day after conception
science
Judith Langlois
(cerebral) cortex
Embryo
34. The principle that those characteristics and behaviors that help organisms adapt - be fit - and survive will be passed on to successive generations - because flexible - fit individuals have a greater chance of reproduction
Cross-sectional study
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Secondary Reinforcer
natural selection
35. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher
genotype
gustation
Mary Cover-Jones
Secondary Punisher
36. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.
Personality disorders
Aaron Beck
top-down processing
Herman von Helmholtz
37. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment
sensory neurons
variable
Mary Ainsworth
Erik Erikson
38. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
encoding
Case study
Alfred Adler
Extrinsic motivation
39. 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
Mainstreaming
Schizophrenic disorders
declarative memory
Myopic
40. Morality based on consequences to self
Gender Identity
Regression
preconventional level of moral development
median
41. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.
Ex Post Facto Design
Temperament
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Double bind
42. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
Object permanence
limbic system
habituation
dependent variable
43. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration
case study
Excitement phase
Approach-avoidance conflict
Self-efficacy
44. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
Harry Stack Sullivan
transfer appropriate processing
olfaction
structuralism
45. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Anna Freud
Hans Eysenck
Light
instinct
46. Netlike system of neurons that weaves through limbic system and plays an important role in attention - arousal - and alert functions; arouses and alerts higher parts of the brain; anesthetics work by temporary shutting off RF system
humanistic psychology
school psychologist
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
47. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments
cones
Social Need
behaviorism
Social Loafing
48. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
humanistic psychology
behavioral genetics
Adolescence
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
49. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
Little Albert
Concept
dendrites
percentile score
50. Sense of taste
gustation
schema
Concordance rate
cochlea