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AP Psychology
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1. A therapy that is based on the application of learning principles to human behavior and that focuses on changing overt behaviors rather than on understanding subjective feelings - unconscious processes - or motivations; also known as behavior modific
Shaping
chunks
parasympathetic nervous system
Behavior therapy
2. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
implicit memory
Preconscious
James-Lange theory of emotion
Clark Hull
3. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time
Longitudinal Study
Metal retardation
Mediation
timbre
4. 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.
counseling psychologist
pituitary gland
Anxiety
forebrain
5. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory
agonist
Insight therapy
Moro reflex
Dissociative disorders
6. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.
Logic
Group therapy
Specific phobia
mean
7. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle
health psychologist
Psycholinguistics
Phallic Stage
pineal gland
8. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
René Descartes
behavioral genetics
industrial/organizational psychologist
Conditioning
9. 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'
pituitary gland
encoding
identical twins
Anorexia Nervosa
10. The highness or lowness of a sound
Drive
Primary Reinforcer
pitch
statistics
11. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.
frontal lobes
Size constancy
Systematic desensitization
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
12. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons
efferent neuron nerve
Langer & Rodin
Body Language
Edward Thorndike
13. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area
association areas
Orgasm phase
Functional fixedness
chunks
14. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
structuralism
genetic mapping
opponent-process theory of emotion
Psychosurgery
15. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
Self-efficacy
Token economy
Langer & Rodin
school psychologist
16. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Bulimia Nervosa
Operant Conditioning
industrial/organizational psychologist
Ageism
17. A person's experiences in the environment
nurture
measure of central tendency
confounding variable
John Garcia
18. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
serotonin
Rationalization
Socrates
Color Blindness
19. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
behavioral genetics
Time-out
amnesia
replication
20. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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21. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event
retrograde amnesia
parathormone
Bulimia Nervosa
Heuristics
22. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment
binocular cues
neural impulse
normal distribution
Extrinsic motivation
23. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
engineering psychologist
Social Interest
replication
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
24. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
Tolerance
William James
amygdala
Concrete operational stage
25. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Double bind
strain studies
primacy effect
psychology
26. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
Babinski reflex
sociocultural psychology
Conflict
memory
27. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse
Darley & Latane
Theory of mind
self-actualization
neurotransmitters
28. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization
Electromagnetic Radiation
industrial/organizational psychologist
sensory neurons
polarization
29. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
Psychotherapy
Algorithm
dominant genes
selective attention
30. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
nature
debriefing
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Self-actualization
31. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
positive psychology
Latent Learning
Child abuse
Ivan Pavlov
32. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
Type A behavior
Perception
implicit memory
Latent Learning
33. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
phenotype
thalamus
Syntax
Nonverbal Communication
34. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall
Social Interest
Anna O.
bottom-up processing
Actor-observer Effect
35. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable
operational definition
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Attachment
self-fulfilling prophecy
36. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures
Prototype
nature
Burnout
Projection
37. Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.
Thanatology
Group Polarization
Displacement
Blood-Brain Barrier
38. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.
Decentration
Stressor
motor neurons
Semantics
39. 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
theory
Skinner Box
motor neurons
transfer appropriate processing
40. 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.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Projective Tests
Hermann Rorschach
split brain patients
41. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
Resolution Phase
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Law of Effect
Panic Attack
42. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe
experimenter bias
Carol Gilligan
Equity Theory
Double bind
43. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
Noam Chomsky
decay
Trait
engineering psychologist
44. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
Syntax
Case study
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
frontal lobes
45. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
axon terminal
control group
Dementia
Sociobiology
46. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
anterograde amnesia
Intimacy
neural impulse
Concrete operational stage
47. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation
Coping
neuropsychologist
David Rosenhan
Standard score
48. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature
Drug
Dementia
brainstem
Hobson & McCarley
49. 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)
Learned helplessness
limbic system
Jean Piaget
Ego
50. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
Dream
Optic chiasm
moral development
refractory period