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AP Psychology
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1. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
Problem Solving
Expectancy Theories
lens
ions
2. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh
endocrine glands
preconventional level of moral development
David Rosenhan
Circadian Rhythms
3. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
unconscious
Longitudinal Study
Bulimia Nervosa
lens
4. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
normal distribution
Stimulant
Sucking reflex
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
5. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Projection
antagonist
pseudoscience
6. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
Homeostasis
Gordon Allport
Karl Wernicke
Latent Learning
7. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
Id
Signal Detection Theory
hippocampus
cones
8. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.
Nonverbal Communication
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
nature-nurture controversy
Archetypes
9. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
Group therapy
sample
peripheral nervous system
Morpheme
10. Response to the belief that the IV will have an effect - rather than the IV's actual effect - which can be a confounding variable
Skinner Box
placebo effect
population
Cognitive Dissonance
11. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
Little Albert
insulin
Drug
debriefing
12. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
naturalistic observation
normal distribution
Morality
Hobson & McCarley
13. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Little Albert
control group
binocular cues
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
14. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Oral Stage
interference
inhibitory neurotransmitter
15. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females
Interpersonal Attraction
Gender stereotype
Raw score
Stanley Milgram
16. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)
myelin sheath
Intimacy
postconventional level of moral development
Alfred Adler
17. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease
Model
consolidation
Psychoneuroimmunology
Social Facilitation
18. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
(cerebral) cortex
Phallic Stage
Social Facilitation
William James
19. Conditioning in which an increase or decrease in the probability that a behavior will recur is affected by the delivery of reinforcement or punishment as a consequence of the behavior;
Operant Conditioning
agonist
Clark Hull
Erik Erikson
20. A trait or inherited characteristic that has increased in a population because it solved a problem of survival or reproduction
Heuristics
Phillip Zimbardo
Debriefing
adaptation
21. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
sympathetic nervous system
Electromagnetic Radiation
conventional level of moral development
optic nerve
22. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Bystander Effect
Punishment
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
preconventional level of moral development
23. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
retrieval
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Hobson & McCarley
aphasia
24. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
nature
conventional level of moral development
implicit memory
phenotype
25. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
bulimia nervosa
Agoraphobia
Mainstreaming
Langer & Rodin
26. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
Oedipus Complex
Raymond Cattell
Positive Reinforcement
Vasocongestion
27. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
Deindividuation
evolutionary psychology
relative refractory period
explicit memory
28. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period
Spontaneous Recovery
ex post facto study
Sublimation
Longitudinal Study
29. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
implicit memory
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Phineas Gage
receptor site
30. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.
dendrites
Major depressive disorder
imagery
scientific method
31. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
Spontaneous Recovery
statistics
Groupthink
Babinski reflex
32. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ on an important dimension
Cross-sectional study
Drive
Positive Reinforcement
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
33. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ
Psychoactive Drug
Working through
Attachment
Cross-sectional Studies
34. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
Variable-ratio Schedule
optic nerve
Unconditioned Response
levels-of-processing approach
35. The second level of the three organizational structures of the brain that receives signals from other parts of the brain or spinal cord and either relays the information to other parts of the brain or causes the body to act immediately; involved in m
Decentration
Agoraphobia
median
midbrain
36. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
experimenter bias
Social phobia
convolutions
37. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
instinct
Stress
Trait
Projective Tests
38. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.
Social Loafing
Rape
Phillip Zimbardo
decay
39. Reproductive glands-male - testes; female - ovaries
Drive
population
gonads
Extrinsic motivation
40. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
shaping
Concept
behavioral genetics
David Weschler
41. 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'
Harry Harlow
pituitary gland
Biofeedback
David Weschler
42. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat
Stanley Milgram
John B Watson
hypnosis
schema
43. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose
Vasocongestion
response bias
blind spot
Trait
44. A need or want that causes someone to act
motive
human genomes
Francis Galton
Ivan Pavlov
45. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
naturalistic observation
Wilhelm Wundt
Albert Ellis
Expectancy Theories
46. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence
Cross-sectional Studies
Edward Thorndike
Stanley Schachter
correlational research
47. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human
Specific phobia
Reinforcer
unconscious
human genomes
48. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
Brainstorming
thyroid gland
receptor site
Attachment
49. Graph of a frequency distribution that shows the number of instances of obtained scores - usually with the data points connect by straight lines
frequency polygon
schema
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
50. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.
debriefing
variability
Superego
Theory of mind