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AP Psychology
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1. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary
Bipolar disorder
Gordon Allport
John Garcia
Standard score
2. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.
Reflex
Fulfillment
iris
Systematic desensitization
3. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
photoreceptors
Anxiety
Rooting reflex
Discrimination
4. An environmental stimulus that affects an organism in physically or psychologically injurious ways - usually producing anxiety - tension - and physiological arousal
Stressor
Model
Depressive disorders
amygdala
5. Memory for specific information
human genomes
positive psychology
declarative memory
psychobiology
6. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information
pineal gland
cohort effect
identical twins
memory
7. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
Standard score
pons
functional MRI (fMRI)
(cerebral) cortex
8. A state of mental discomfort arising from a discrepancy between two or more of a person's beliefs or between a person's beliefs and overt behavior.
Bystander Effect
standard deviation
Cognitive Dissonance
sound localization
9. The expression of genes
phenotype
self-fulfilling prophecy
chromosome
thyroxine
10. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.
Altruism
Harry Stack Sullivan
participant
Defense Mechanism
11. 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
Overjustification effect
Learned Helplessness
normal distribution
association areas
12. 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
monocular cues
Social Influence
Collective Unconscious
short-term storage
13. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
Cognitive Dissonance
Dependence
Optic chiasm
Conformity
14. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
mode
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Mediation
monocular cues
15. The study of the lifelong - often age-related - processes of change in the physical - cognitive - moral - emotional - and social domains of functioning; such changes are rooted in biological mechanisms that are genetically controlled - as well as in
placebo
Approach-avoidance conflict
Developmental Psychology
sociocultural psychology
16. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
somatic nervous system
Case study
Mary Cover-Jones
Psychosurgery
17. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
forebrain
Schema
sympathetic nervous system
behavior
18. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Light
Punishment
Masters & Johnson
Dependence
19. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings
Concrete operational stage
Robert Zajonc
Humanistic theory
Specific phobia
20. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time
Holmes & Rahe
opponent-process theory of emotion
episodic memory
primacy effect
21. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.
Child abuse
naturalistic observation
implicit memory
Specific phobia
22. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
debriefing
endocrine system
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
ions
23. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.
Panic Attack
receptor site
Descriptive Studies
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
24. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.
Learned helplessness
Hans Eysenck
Conditioned Response
Trait
25. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism
measure of central tendency
Primary Punisher
postconventional level of moral development
Socrates
26. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Social Loafing
Howard Gardner
hypnosis
27. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits
pituitary gland
self-actualization
Psychophysics
gene
28. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Spontaneous Recovery
Latency Stage
bulimia nervosa
29. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Reliability
Sucking reflex
Prevalence
token economy
30. Personality assessment; created the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) with Christina Morgan - stated that the need to achieve varied in strength in different people and influenced their tendency to approach and evaluate their own performances
human genomes
Unconditioned Stimulus
Henry Murray
Self-efficacy
31. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.
Spontaneous Recovery
Ernst Weber
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Decision making
32. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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33. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis
Reflex
experimenter bias
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Overjustification effect
34. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.
Self-perception Theory
retroactive interference
Emotion
Repression
35. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning
midbrain
Classical Conditioning
Edward Bradford Titchener
Collective Unconscious
36. According to Piaget - the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences
Accommodation
Lewis Terman
Oral Stage
Dissociative identity disorder
37. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
descriptive statistics
Mary Cover-Jones
selective attention
Classical Conditioning
38. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience
imagery
Halo effect
Family therapy
Child abuse
39. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives
Dream analysis
monocular cues
hypothesis
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
40. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Abnormal psychology
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Darley & Latane
Plateau phase
41. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
mutation
Mary Cover-Jones
Anna Freud
Problem Solving
42. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.
Debriefing
ethnocentrism
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Bystander Effect
43. Visual theory - proposed by Herring - that color is coded by stimulation of three types of paired receptors; each pair of receptors is assumed to operate in an antagonist way so that stimulation by a given wavelength produces excitation (increased fi
Opponent-process theory
Visual cortex
sensory memory
Self-efficacy
44. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses
monism
Time-out
Conflict
pituitary gland
45. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
Androgynous
Psycholinguistics
Gender Identity
median
46. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
Altruism
nature
Perception
Assimilation
47. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
just noticeable difference (JND)
monocular cues
parallel processing
David Weschler
48. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Little Albert
synaptic vesicles
frequency
49. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval
Alfred Adler
Fixed-interval Schedule
science
hindbrain
50. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
Self-perception Theory
Ego
Brainstorming
Benjamin Whorf