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AP Psychology
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1. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives
Ideal Self
Health psychology
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Need
2. In Piaget's view - a specific mental structure; an organized way of interacting with the environment and experiencing it- a generalization a child makes based on comparable occurences of various actins - usally physical - motor actions
Lev Vygotsky
Schema
chunks
Myopic
3. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions
David Rosenhan
Plateau phase
correlational research
Albert Ellis
4. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses
behavioral genetics
Daniel Goleman
photoreceptors
Bystander Effect
5. Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.
scientific method
Gestalt psychology
Sucking reflex
Aggression
6. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
anorexia nervosa
agonist
Logic
Morpheme
7. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.
Concrete operational stage
Unconscious
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Blood-Brain Barrier
8. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Morality
Rational-emotive therapy
Cognitive Psychology
9. In psychoanalysis - an unwillingness to cooperate - which a patient signals by showing a reluctance to provide the therapist with information or to help the therapist understand or interpret a situation.
Saccades
humanistic psychology
Resistance
Rape
10. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
maintenance rehearsal
Standardization
Burnout
Obedience
11. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary
school psychologist
olfaction
eclectic
Noam Chomsky
12. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Percentile score
Subgoal analysis
Cognitive theories
13. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints
Egocentrism
Decentration
afferent neuron nerve
hindbrain
14. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.
binocular cues
Impression Formation
Denial
hippocampus
15. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe
Francis Galton
John Garcia
hypothesis
Walter B. Cannon
16. Perspective developed by freud - which assumes that psychological problems are the result of anxiety resulting from unresolved conflicts and forces of which a person might be unaware
psychoanalytic
selective attention
Schema
Fixation
17. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
hypothesis
sensory memory
prenatal development
Gazzaniga or Sperry
18. First menstrual period
nature
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Attitudes
menarche
19. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.
Problem Solving
Decision making
Imaginary Audience
Secondary Punisher
20. Graphical record of brain-wave activity obtained through electrodes placed on the scalp and forehead
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Phallic Stage
Harry Harlow
Alfred Adler
21. 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
variability
endorphins
Walter B. Cannon
Concrete operational stage
22. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
Naturalistic observation
spinal cord
neuroscience
pons
23. 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
Assessment
Attributions
Albert Bandura
hindbrain
24. Growth in the ability to tell right from wrong - control impulses - and act ethically
Ex Post Facto Design
Social Loafing
Equity Theory
moral development
25. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
psychoanalytic
dopamine
empiricism
psychologist
26. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes
Bystander Effect
amnesia
heritability
Dream analysis
27. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
Phonology
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Temperament
empiricism
28. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned
Social Interest
operational definition
Primary Reinforcer
memory
29. The evaluation of the significance of a situation or event as it relates to a person's well-being
Appraisal
Insomnia
Judith Langlois
psychometrician
30. Retrieval cues that match original information work better
Preoperational stage
Kenneth Clark
encoding specificity principle
Sublimation
31. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation
Standard score
adaptation
Konrad Lorenz
Anorexia Nervosa
32. Electrically charged particles found both inside and outside a neuron; negative ions are found inside the cell membrane in a polarized neuron
variable
ions
Cross-sectional Studies
Motive
33. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.
Reactance
limbic system
Masters & Johnson
cochlea
34. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
ethics
psychiatrist
retrieval
35. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Langer & Rodin
Superego
Conformity
Regression
36. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions
memory span
motor neurons
emotional intelligence
Halo effect
37. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
storage
working memory
polygenic inheritance
behaviorism
38. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher
Hermann Rorschach
significant difference
Manifest Content
frequency distribution
39. Rules of proper and acceptable conduct that investigators use to guide psychological research
Attitudes
Dichromats
ethics
sociocultural psychology
40. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Arousal
hypnosis
Stimulus Generalization
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
41. 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
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Reflex
Ageism
synaptic vesicles
42. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking
engineering psychologist
cognitive psychology
Halo effect
Conditioning
43. The depth and richness of a hue determined by determined by the homogeneity of the wavelengths contained in the reflected light; also known as purity.
maintenance rehearsal
achievement test
Psychoanalysis
Saturation
44. The inability to perceive different hues.
Color Blindness
self-actualization
theory
Unconditioned Response
45. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood
nervous system
Anna O.
psychiatrist
Stimulant
46. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
Brainstorming
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
postconventional level of moral development
natural selection
47. The biochemical processes that make it easier for the neuron to respond again when it has been stimulated
long-term potentiation
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Assessment
frequency polygon
48. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume
Conservation
conventional level of moral development
Experimental design
prenatal development
49. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.
industrial/organizational psychologist
Interpretation
Case study
confounding variable
50. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.
Secondary Sex Characteristics
triarchic theory of intelligence
psychiatrist
Convergent thinking
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