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AP Psychology
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1. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
explicit memory
semantic memory
Heritability
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
2. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
anterograde amnesia
observer bias
Developmental Psychology
Brightness
3. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
debriefing
preconscious
Jean Piaget
4. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness
Groupthink
Abraham Maslow
gate control theory
Egocentrism
5. 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
confounding variable
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
normal distribution
Cognitive theories
6. Released by thyroid; hormone that regulates the body's metabolism; OVERACTIVE-over-excitability - insomnia - reduced attention span - fatigue - snap decisions - reduced concentration (hyperthyroidism); UNDERACTIVE-desire to sleep - constantly tired -
Self
Albert Ellis
thyroxine
pancreas
7. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
norepinephrine
Overjustification effect
Trichromats
8. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
resting potential
storage
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Case study
9. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands
elaborative rehearsal
Erik Erikson
motor neurons
John B Watson
10. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time
engineering psychologist
episodic memory
authoritative parenting
monocular cues
11. 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
significant difference
Law of Effect
self-actualization
ions
12. 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
Lucid Dream
Solomon Asch
Prevalence
Abnormal Behavior
13. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
Case study
Alfred Adler
postconventional level of moral development
Counterconditioning
14. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.
Albert Ellis
Groupthink
hindbrain
Perception
15. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.
Opponent-process theory
Kurt Lewin
Psychoactive Drug
Denial
16. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.
Sociobiology
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
psychoanalytic
semantic memory
17. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
Self-actualization
Type A behavior
Demand characteristics
timbre
18. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
peripheral nervous system
Electromagnetic Radiation
Androgynous
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
19. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles
fraternal twins
Drug
Gestalt psychology
Phillip Zimbardo
20. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.
Anal Stage
interference
Edward Bradford Titchener
Stanley Schachter
21. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
Dissociative amnesia
identical twins
Stanley Schachter
William Sheldon
22. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation
Standard score
Stanley Milgram
Abraham Maslow
vestibular sense
23. Observed group differences based on the era when people were born and grew up - exposing them to particular experiences that may affect the results of cross-sectional studies
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Projective Tests
Personal Fable
cohort effect
24. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
Substance Abuser
Archetypes
Stanley Milgram
Group
25. Growth in the ability to tell right from wrong - control impulses - and act ethically
moral development
Unconditioned Stimulus
Social Influence
Assimilation
26. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
Abnormal psychology
representative sample
Ivan Pavlov
Secondary Reinforcer
27. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Dependence
Id
nerve
28. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
frontal lobes
Rationalization
Algorithm
Dissociative disorders
29. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Langer & Rodin
forensic psychologist
Gender stereotype
Raymond Cattell
30. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes
spinal cord
levels-of-processing approach
endocrine system
mode
31. The process by which the probability of an organism's emitting a response is reduced when reinforcement no longer follows the response
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Double bind
timbre
Embryo
32. Reproductive glands-male - testes; female - ovaries
gonads
habituation
Sex
Self-serving Bias
33. An individual's genetic make-up
pupil
genotype
Erik Erikson
median
34. Graph of a frequency distribution that shows the number of instances of obtained scores - usually with the data points connect by straight lines
Semantics
frequency polygon
endorphins
descriptive statistics
35. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
Babinski reflex
authoritative parenting
Aggression
Fixed-ratio Schedule
36. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
Deindividuation
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Receptive fields
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
37. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
Model
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Phonology
Operant Conditioning
38. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
prenatal development
Resistance
Edward Bradford Titchener
nonconscious
39. When a neuron is in polarization; more negative ions are inside the neuron cell membrane with a positive ions on the outside - causing a small electrical charge; release of this charge generates a neuron's impulse (signal/message)
neurogenesis
variability
Conditioned Stimulus
resting potential
40. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
Unconscious
Temperament
Concept
Babinski reflex
41. Devised theory of multiple intelligences: logical-mathematic - spatial - bodily-kinesthetic - intrapersonal - linguistic - musical - interpersonal - naturalistic
Howard Gardner
cognitive psychology
Secondary Sex Characteristics
ethics
42. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior
neural impulse
prenatal development
clinical psychologist
Gender Schema Theory
43. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision
Primary Punisher
endocrine system
Visual cortex
cones
44. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Little Albert
natural selection
Phobic disorders
Albert Bandura
45. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
autonomic nervous system
nature
decay
behavior
46. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.
Double bind
Aaron Beck
Prototype
Algorithm
47. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)
parathyroid
interneurons
Judith Langlois
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
48. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
Free association
developmental psychologist
population
Demand characteristics
49. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically
variability
schema
Cognitive theories
neural plasticity
50. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.
Type B behavior
Orgasm phase
Social Cognition
Overjustification effect