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AP Psychology
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1. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.
Manifest Content
central nervous system
Symptom substitution
Personal Fable
2. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher
Secondary Punisher
Preoperational stage
Expectancy Theories
Social Facilitation
3. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities
pitch
Interpretation
functional MRI (fMRI)
John B Watson
4. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
Longitudinal Study
opponent-process theory of emotion
Latent Content
Residual type of schizophrenia
5. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.
Time-out
Tolerance
human genomes
Transduction
6. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort
epinephrine
forebrain
Harry Harlow
bottom-up processing
7. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
Dissociative amnesia
health psychologist
Benjamin Whorf
Rosenthal & Jacobson
8. 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.
Sociobiology
Client-centered therapy
graded potential
Gestalt psychology
9. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes
Von Restorff effect
Panic Attack
DNA
Trichromatic theory
10. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance
Robert Yerkes
Syntax
pineal gland
median
11. 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
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Spontaneous Recovery
Puberty
Hue
12. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
somatic nervous system
Preconscious
Anal Stage
Delusions
13. 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
Saccades
mean
Fixation
14. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body
kinesthesis
genetic mapping
ethics
Abnormal Behavior
15. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions
brainstem
Algorithm
Phonology
hormone
16. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
self-fulfilling prophecy
timbre
Conditioned Stimulus
Representative sample
17. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
mode
demand characteristics
Rooting reflex
Descriptive Studies
18. Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of - and desire to avoid - situations in which the person might be exposed to scrutiny by others and might behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way.
Social Loafing
Social phobia
Free association
science
19. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Metal retardation
participant
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
20. An environmental stimulus that affects an organism in physically or psychologically injurious ways - usually producing anxiety - tension - and physiological arousal
Prosocial Behavior
median
top-down processing
Stressor
21. 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
Phillip Zimbardo
optic nerve
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
normal distribution
22. 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
Halo effect
Anna O.
Preoperational stage
identical twins
23. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.
parallel processing
Antisocial personality disorder
gonads
Sucking reflex
24. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
eclectic
humanistic psychology
cognitive psychology
Archetypes
25. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
temporal lobes
Skinner Box
representative sample
industrial/organizational psychologist
26. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life
neurogenesis
pancreas
Family therapy
synaptic cleft
27. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.
Intimacy
Myopic
Humanistic theory
Adolescence
28. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Positive Reinforcement
Heritability
Konrad Lorenz
serotonin
29. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
Dichromats
crystallized intelligence
Brainstorming
neural plasticity
30. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
pitch
psychology
Skinner Box
Approach-avoidance conflict
31. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
Social Facilitation
dendrites
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
representative sample
32. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
Edward Thorndike
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Self-perception Theory
Factor analysis
33. Developed one of the first projective tests - the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story - the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary
Albert Ellis
audition
Hermann Rorschach
Higher-order Conditioning
34. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
dendrites
Opponent-process theory
aversive conditioning
Health psychology
35. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Psychophysics
Light
Kenneth Clark
retrograde amnesia
36. A person's sense of being male or female
Gender Identity
Charles Spearman
Self-actualization
Health psychology
37. Bundles of axons
Normal curve
Morpheme
Color Blindness
nerve
38. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ on an important dimension
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
opponent-process theory of emotion
Decision making
Cross-sectional study
39. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
Masters & Johnson
efferent neuron nerve
positron emission tomography (PET scan)
Phobic disorders
40. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved
retrieval
Collective Unconscious
(cerebral) cortex
double-blind procedure
41. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill
Transduction
placebo
blind spot
Stimulant
42. Transparent covering of the eye
cornea
explicit memory
Fixed-interval Schedule
occipital lobes
43. Largest - most complicated - and most advanced of the three divisions of the brain; comprises the thalamus - hypothalamus - limbic system - basal ganglia - corpus callosum - and cortex
Preoperational stage
forebrain
evolutionary psychology
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
44. The biochemical processes that make it easier for the neuron to respond again when it has been stimulated
Dissociative disorders
unconscious
long-term potentiation
neuroscience
45. 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.
maintenance rehearsal
Antisocial personality disorder
Assimilation
Type B behavior
46. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine
Oedipus Complex
thyroid gland
Superego
Intelligence
47. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
Social Psychology
structuralism
David Weschler
Judith Langlois
48. The process by which the location of sound is determined
Working through
Reasoning
sound localization
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
49. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation
Counterconditioning
science
Stimulus Generalization
Reliability
50. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood
brainstem
Edward Bradford Titchener
Stimulant
gonads