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AP Psychology
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1. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
frequency distribution
Sucking reflex
James-Lange theory of emotion
recessive gene
2. An explanation of behavior that emphasizes the entirety of life rather than individual components of behavior and focuses on human dignity - individual choice - and self-worth
Humanistic theory
Assimilation
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Psychosurgery
3. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
theory
elaborative rehearsal
Bulimia Nervosa
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
4. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
Language
Brainstorming
short-term storage
Fixed-ratio Schedule
5. A person's experiences in the environment
standard deviation
nurture
Unconditioned Response
parietal lobes
6. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.
Visual cortex
Androgynous
Saturation
visual acuity
7. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.
occipital lobes
Psychotherapy
Social Cognition
Systematic desensitization
8. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.
inferential statistics
Phobic disorders
Trait
zone of proximal development
9. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age
fluid intelligence
Debriefing
Personality disorders
range
10. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
nature-nurture controversy
Agoraphobia
Stimulus Discrimination
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
11. The biochemical processes that make it easier for the neuron to respond again when it has been stimulated
nervous system
median
Lev Vygotsky
long-term potentiation
12. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.
pancreas
Langer & Rodin
Divergent thinking
Behavior therapy
13. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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14. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
debriefing
Psychoactive Drug
Conditioning
Resilience
15. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
Grasping reflex
inhibitory neurotransmitter
insulin
working memory
16. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Skinner Box
Clark Hull
Consciousness
17. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Debriefing
Group therapy
Conditioned Response
descriptive statistics
18. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
Brightness
nature
action potential
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
19. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them
motivated forgetting
Creativity
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
evolutionary psychology
20. A fertilized egg
Zygote
Decentration
Attachment
Concrete operational stage
21. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
hippocampus
Thanatology
Solomon Asch
Raymond Cattell
22. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction
Health psychology
cochlea
Fundamental Attribution Error
Double-blind techniques
23. 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
Conditioned Stimulus
Broca's area
Critical Period
action potential
24. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
Socrates
Social Cognition
James-Lange theory of emotion
Preconscious
25. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
Appraisal
sensory adaptation
Ekman & Friesen
Ideal Self
26. Bundles of axons
nerve
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Brainstorming
clinical psychologist
27. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi
Insight therapy
Solomon Asch
cones
insulin
28. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.
memory span
Panic Attack
Monochromats
ESP
29. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction
Symptom substitution
Burnout
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Extrinsic motivation
30. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
neuron
social psychologist
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
David Weschler
31. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
parathyroid
anterograde amnesia
conventional level of moral development
32. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'
Tolman
pituitary gland
cerebellum
Abnormal psychology
33. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants
Anxiety
Stereotypes
Concept
Gibson & Walk
34. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.
Social Psychology
psychoanalyst
Projective Tests
Stanley Schachter
35. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
Vasocongestion
Visual cortex
Teratogen
36. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
Model
human genomes
phenotype
self-actualization
37. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma
frontal lobes
Brainstorming
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
pitch
38. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
Bonding
sociocultural psychology
Placebo effect
range
39. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Intimacy
shaping
Hyperopic
40. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results
state-dependent learning
self-fulfilling prophecy
statistics
Dream
41. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
storage
convolutions
Representative sample
response bias
42. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
Erik Erikson
Validity
maintenance rehearsal
Daniel Goleman
43. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
psychiatrist
ethnocentrism
Regression
Stress
44. 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
Obedience
Aggression
Algorithm
Social Need
45. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
Conditioned Stimulus
Aaron Beck
Secondary Reinforcer
fraternal twins
46. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.
Sex
aversive conditioning
Aversive counterconditioning
Learned helplessness
47. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event
Lawrence Kohlberg
retrograde amnesia
frequency distribution
variability
48. Threadlike structure within the nucleus of cells that contain genes
Raymond Cattell
Hyperopic
Broca's area
chromosome
49. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
educational psychologist
Tolerance
Hermann Ebbinghaus
efferent neuron nerve
50. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.
Withdrawal Symptoms
Primary Punisher
Types
Darley & Latane