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AP Psychology
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1. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned
Counterconditioning
dendrites
epinephrine
Conditioning
2. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes
fraternal twins
Displacement
engineering psychologist
confounding variable
3. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light
rods
frontal lobes
Self-actualization
percentile score
4. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
semantic memory
nurture
Free association
Model
5. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable
operational definition
Primary Punisher
Alfred Binet
Oedipus Complex
6. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship
Group Polarization
elaborative rehearsal
Experimental design
gate control theory
7. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways
cerebellum
Theory of mind
Consciousness
receptor site
8. A state of consciousness that occurs during sleep - usually accompanied by vivid visual - tactile - or auditory imagery.
Dream
Regression
Howard Gardner
fluid intelligence
9. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands
neurogenesis
epinephrine
Resilience
control group
10. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged
Positive Reinforcement
Problem Solving
ethnocentrism
Dream
11. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory
synapse
levels-of-processing approach
Saccades
Nonverbal Communication
12. Commonly occurring behavior can reinforce a less frequent behavior
Temperament
Anna O.
Premack principle
DNA
13. 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.
Fixed-interval Schedule
Placebo effect
chromosome
Noam Chomsky
14. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
participant
Defense Mechanism
Genital Stage
Superego
15. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
Social Loafing
Brainstorming
normal distribution
autonomic nervous system
16. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards
amygdala
psychoanalytic
token economy
episodic memory
17. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
Rosenhan
debriefing
pseudoscience
neuropsychologist
18. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
Electromagnetic Radiation
sensory adaptation
cohort effect
Mediation
19. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Judith Langlois
Social Categorization
frequency polygon
20. 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.
Saturation
observer bias
Ernst Weber
convolutions
21. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary
Clark Hull
procedural memory
primacy effect
Gordon Allport
22. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
descriptive statistics
maintenance rehearsal
Sensorimotor stage
experiment
23. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
Alfred Adler
Resilience
nature-nurture controversy
introspection
24. An individual's genetic make-up
genotype
mode
occipital lobes
Trichromats
25. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series
Type B behavior
Manifest Content
hypothalamus
primacy effect
26. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Personality disorders
evolutionary psychology
relative refractory period
Sucking reflex
27. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle
Sublimation
cochlea
Anna Freud
psychiatrist
28. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits
experimental group
retina
forebrain
gene
29. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions
Stanley Milgram
Heritability
ex post facto study
zone of proximal development
30. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time
adrenal glands
thalamus
Type A behavior
Zajonc & Markus
31. In an experiment - the group of participants to whom a treatment is given
Clark Hull
clinical psychologist
experimental group
Language
32. The view that knowledge should be acquired through observation and often an experiment
Receptive fields
Lawrence Kohlberg
population
empiricism
33. Devised theory of multiple intelligences: logical-mathematic - spatial - bodily-kinesthetic - intrapersonal - linguistic - musical - interpersonal - naturalistic
Defense Mechanism
Howard Gardner
hormone
pupil
34. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data
Temperament
psychometrician
Secondary Reinforcer
dominant genes
35. The expression of genes
phenotype
Concept
Electromagnetic Radiation
Prosocial Behavior
36. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
Conservation
Time-out
state-dependent learning
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
37. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them
hypothalamus
parallel processing
motivated forgetting
Intrinsic motivation
38. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
clinical psychologist
Lewis Terman
declarative memory
anterograde amnesia
39. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people
eclectic
social psychologist
Brightness
iris
40. Ends of axons that secrete neurotransmitters
fovea
lens
glial cells
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
41. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it
Arousal
Health psychology
Defense Mechanism
Reinforcer
42. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
Skinner Box
difference threshold
Burnout
Hermann Rorschach
43. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse
neurotransmitters
Phonology
Anorexia Nervosa
Latency Stage
44. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Attitudes
Hermann Rorschach
psychology
Dream analysis
45. Style of parenting marked by emotional coldness - imposing rules and expecting obedience
Myopic
authoritarian parenting
Metal retardation
Child abuse
46. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
monism
thyroid gland
blind spot
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
47. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Robert Rosenthal
central nervous system
Psychoactive Drug
motor projection areas
48. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Subliminal perception
Intelligence
Deviation IQ
parasympathetic nervous system
49. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.
Types
Sociobiology
range
Hobson & McCarley
50. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Obedience
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
motor projection areas