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AP Psychology
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1. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
Need
functionalism
Hue
Withdrawal Symptoms
2. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma
Fixation
glial cells
amnesia
preconscious
3. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
Anna O.
Phallic Stage
sample
educational psychologist
4. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
Subgoal analysis
Bipolar disorder
storage
Morality
5. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.
Systematic desensitization
Fundamental Attribution Error
Working through
Light
6. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse
observer bias
neurotransmitters
Lev Vygotsky
theory
7. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
Generalized anxiety disorder
Abnormal psychology
unconscious
Transduction
8. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
graded potential
Object permanence
Stimulus Generalization
Sucking reflex
9. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
Anna Freud
Absolute threshold
Substance Abuser
Ex Post Facto Design
10. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment
Vulnerability
Preoperational stage
audition
Moro reflex
11. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
Subgoal analysis
EEG (electroencephalogram)
industrial/organizational psychologist
monocular cues
12. Graphical record of brain-wave activity obtained through electrodes placed on the scalp and forehead
Dichromats
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Hue
behavior
13. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event
retrograde amnesia
Heuristics
observer bias
Lawrence Kohlberg
14. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
recency effect
pupil
Dissociative identity disorder
Libido
15. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Latent Content
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Intelligence
working memory
16. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons
olfaction
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
conventional level of moral development
Agoraphobia
17. 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.
Anxiety
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Fetus
demand characteristics
18. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned
Skinner Box
Conditioning
developmental psychologist
explicit memory
19. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross
proactive interference
serotonin
Blood-Brain Barrier
midbrain
20. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.
Motivation
Phoneme
David Rosenhan
Projective Tests
21. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
pupil
Higher-order Conditioning
cognitive psychology
human genomes
22. The sense of hearing
recency effect
audition
Experimental design
Egocentrism
23. Learning; systematic desensitization
Wolpe
semantic memory
binocular cues
experimental group
24. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
Myopic
Type B behavior
Residual type of schizophrenia
neuron
25. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal
Langer & Rodin
Projective Tests
Drive
Paul Ekman
26. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
Representative sample
Projection
top-down processing
hypothalamus
27. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.
Double-blind techniques
chromosome
demand characteristics
retroactive interference
28. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
interference
Punishment
Placenta
Sublimation
29. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
decay
Cognitive Psychology
Ageism
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
30. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait
Robert Zajonc
Leon Festinger
observer bias
selection studies
31. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
David Rosenhan
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Herman von Helmholtz
dopamine
32. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
self-actualization
transfer appropriate processing
cones
anorexia nervosa
33. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
significant difference
implicit memory
Self-perception Theory
crystallized intelligence
34. Constructed by Lewis Terman - originally used ratio IQ (MA/CA x 100); now based on deviation from mean
Positive Reinforcement
excitatory neurotransmitter
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
control group
35. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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36. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill
Optic chiasm
Prosocial Behavior
genetics
zone of proximal development
37. 17th century English philosopher. Wrote that the mind was a 'blank slate' or 'tabula rasa'; that is - people are born without innate ideas. We are completely shaped by our environment .
Walter B. Cannon
John Locke
Deindividuation
Fulfillment
38. Organizing sensory information so it can be processed by the nervous system
Elaboration Likelihood Model
response bias
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
encoding
39. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
Photoreceptors
postconventional level of moral development
Shaping
Prosocial Behavior
40. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.
forebrain
Vulnerability
psychoanalyst
Robert Yerkes
41. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching
Temperament
Imaginary Audience
encoding
Factor analysis
42. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology
Psychoanalysis
structuralism
Langer & Rodin
correlation coefficient
43. 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
population
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
normal distribution
neuroscience
44. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
occipital lobes
Self-efficacy
fraternal twins
preconscious
45. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
Debriefing
gonads
nature
developmental psychologist
46. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
difference threshold
Survey
Carl Rogers
47. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
Edward Bradford Titchener
Groupthink
iris
Nonverbal Communication
48. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.
Agoraphobia
clinical psychologist
Dichromats
statistics
49. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
peripheral nervous system
instinct
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
50. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions
Erik Erikson
Ex Post Facto Design
Abnormal Behavior
engineering psychologist