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AP Psychology
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1. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
Anxiety
Stimulus Discrimination
Arousal
Consciousness
2. 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
Collective Unconscious
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Alfred Adler
long-term memory
3. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
placebo effect
anterograde amnesia
frequency polygon
triarchic theory of intelligence
4. The sense of hearing
Classical Conditioning
Masters & Johnson
Bystander Effect
audition
5. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age
normal distribution
pineal gland
prenatal development
crystallized intelligence
6. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'
thalamus
Robert Zajonc
Self-efficacy
DNA
7. 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.
Morality
Cognitive Dissonance
Agoraphobia
Mary Ainsworth
8. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Sucking reflex
Symptom substitution
Brightness
Homeostasis
9. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Client-centered therapy
psychologist
Karen Horney
10. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad
Morality
Unconscious
myelin sheath
Broca's area
11. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
frontal lobes
observer bias
Residual type of schizophrenia
receptor site
12. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
memory
gene
schema
Psychosurgery
13. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made
cochlea
sample
representative sample
Latent Content
14. A descriptive statistic that measures the variability of data from the mean of the sample
standard deviation
Specific phobia
visual acuity
Sociobiology
15. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites
Circadian Rhythms
kinesthesis
synapse
Percentile score
16. The arithmetic average of a set of scores
behavioral genetics
mean
pons
debriefing
17. In Piaget's view - a specific mental structure; an organized way of interacting with the environment and experiencing it- a generalization a child makes based on comparable occurences of various actins - usally physical - motor actions
Schema
peripheral nervous system
Ego
insulin
18. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion
timbre
Karl Wernicke
Hans Eysenck
split brain patients
19. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors
amygdala
Sucking reflex
storage
Mediation
20. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships
Social Need
confounding variable
Prototype
natural selection
21. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
Social Loafing
Sensorimotor stage
Zajonc & Markus
Lawrence Kohlberg
22. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
preconscious
William Dement
Psychotherapy
Ex Post Facto Design
23. 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
aptitude test
nurture
polygenic inheritance
polarization
24. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law
Ernst Weber
Accommodation
(cerebral) cortex
standard deviation
25. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics
Case study
Bonding
Biofeedback
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
26. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses
Conflict
standard deviation
hormone
Need for achievement
27. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
Assimilation
Factor analysis
James-Lange theory of emotion
Case study
28. 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
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Noam Chomsky
placebo
Personality
29. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation
Archetypes
science
statistics
forebrain
30. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
proactive interference
Phillip Zimbardo
John Locke
Stanley Schachter
31. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
Dream analysis
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Fetus
Type B behavior
32. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
Raw score
gonads
Ekman & Friesen
transfer appropriate processing
33. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Time-out
Bulimia Nervosa
Anna Freud
34. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
Repression
Phoneme
sympathetic nervous system
Superstitious Behavior
35. 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
Moro reflex
Color Blindness
lens
axon terminal
36. The process by which the location of sound is determined
Group therapy
Morality
sound localization
Sex
37. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.
Dissociative identity disorder
Psychoactive Drug
conventional level of moral development
Panic Attack
38. Establish the relationship between two variables
psychologist
correlational research
Rape
Descriptive Studies
39. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Representative sample
Fixed-interval Schedule
Means-ends analysis
Types
40. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood
Transduction
Stimulant
Approach-avoidance conflict
Collective Unconscious
41. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
Ex Post Facto Design
Phillip Zimbardo
Intimacy
Temperament
42. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.
thyroxine
Types
Unconscious
participant
43. 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
Robert Rosenthal
implicit memory
Burnout
44. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
Nonverbal Communication
Reliability
Longitudinal Study
Elizabeth Loftus
45. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input
Factor analysis
Intimacy
ESP
schema
46. The depth and richness of a hue determined by determined by the homogeneity of the wavelengths contained in the reflected light; also known as purity.
Fetus
Saturation
Stanley Milgram
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
47. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
Systematic desensitization
Placebo effect
industrial/organizational psychologist
family studies
48. Memory for specific information
Lewis Terman
Social Interest
declarative memory
Discrimination
49. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.
Problem Solving
Judith Langlois
correlational research
Antisocial personality disorder
50. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature
Learned Helplessness
Dementia
Carol Gilligan
Von Restorff effect