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AP Psychology
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1. Areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions - rather - they are involved in higher mental processes such as thinking - planning - and communicating
Defense Mechanism
pitch
association areas
endocrine system
2. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
Prevalence
storage
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
rods
3. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.
Means-ends analysis
Ivan Pavlov
Standardization
Specific phobia
4. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
maintenance rehearsal
Latent Learning
Latent Content
Gender Schema Theory
5. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative
Social Cognition
antagonist
scientific method
family studies
6. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.
Intimacy
timbre
David Rosenhan
Ideal Self
7. Top of the spinal column
brainstem
Rationalization
Factor analysis
Higher-order Conditioning
8. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
Group
gene
Withdrawal Symptoms
cornea
9. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
identical twins
top-down processing
heritability
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
10. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.
Attributions
Psychosurgery
Saccades
Unconscious
11. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
B.F. Skinner
Law of Effect
Preoperational stage
Ivan Pavlov
12. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
ethnocentrism
functional MRI (fMRI)
Self-perception Theory
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
13. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
educational psychologist
schema
health psychologist
Personal Fable
14. Biologist; developed theory of evolution; transmutation of species - natural selection - evolution by common descent; 'The Origin of Species' catalogs his voyage on The Beagle
Charles Darwin
Social Categorization
Hobson & McCarley
Trait
15. False beliefs that are inconsistent with reality but are held in spite of evidence that disproves them.
Delusions
Impression Formation
Abraham Maslow
opponent-process theory of emotion
16. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
conventional level of moral development
rods
preconscious
Heritability
17. 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
Rooting reflex
gonads
Collective Unconscious
Secondary Reinforcer
18. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse
Vulnerability
pancreas
Residual type of schizophrenia
neurotransmitters
19. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.
adrenal glands
Backward search
amnesia
René Descartes
20. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain
convolutions
Psychosurgery
neuron
spinal cord
21. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
Schema
response bias
Punishment
chromosome
22. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea
psychologist
retrograde amnesia
Classical Conditioning
David Rosenhan
23. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
Insight therapy
Judith Langlois
Defense Mechanism
top-down processing
24. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
Resolution Phase
developmental psychologist
Regression
Conformity
25. 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
parietal lobes
dendrites
Extinction (classical conditioning)
polarization
26. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
Edward Bradford Titchener
DNA
midbrain
Myopic
27. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.
functional MRI (fMRI)
Kenneth Clark
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Absolute threshold
28. Sense of smell
memory span
Zygote
olfaction
Carol Gilligan
29. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
sensory memory
self-actualization
Clark Hull
neuropsychologist
30. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
Broca's area
Alfred Binet
Sensation
pupil
31. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth
endocrine system
Time-out
Insight therapy
Bonding
32. 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
Anna O.
Reflex
Trichromats
Heuristics
33. 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
Extrinsic motivation
Creativity
cones
Noam Chomsky
34. 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.
postconventional level of moral development
Depressive disorders
Major depressive disorder
temporal lobes
35. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
implicit memory
Daniel Goleman
Demand characteristics
EEG (electroencephalogram)
36. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
Transference
positive psychology
Descriptive Studies
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
37. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems
timbre
psychoanalyst
refractory period
Representative sample
38. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place
emotional intelligence
Walter B. Cannon
Deviation IQ
working memory
39. 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
Hobson & McCarley
Plateau phase
agonist
Altruism
40. Netlike system of neurons that weaves through limbic system and plays an important role in attention - arousal - and alert functions; arouses and alerts higher parts of the brain; anesthetics work by temporary shutting off RF system
Projective Tests
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
Electromagnetic Radiation
split brain patients
41. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data
Descriptive Studies
Factor analysis
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
nervous system
42. 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)
Jean Piaget
Robert Yerkes
triarchic theory of intelligence
Accommodation
43. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives
Approach-approach conflict
neurogenesis
Humanistic theory
vestibular sense
44. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites
synapse
Hue
Clark Hull
health psychologist
45. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Working through
Monochromats
Archetypes
strain studies
46. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.
myelin sheath
Transference
axon
antagonist
47. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality
Humanistic theory
forebrain
Reflex
Opponent-process theory
48. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood
Myopic
Zajonc & Markus
Puberty
Premack principle
49. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time
midbrain
Tolman
difference threshold
Morpheme
50. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females
Gender stereotype
shaping
Psychotic
Lawrence Kohlberg