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AP Psychology
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1. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords
Latency Stage
Collective Unconscious
Major depressive disorder
sensory neurons
2. Primary area for processing visual information
association areas
hypothesis
occipital lobes
Abnormal psychology
3. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.
Bystander Effect
Conditioned Response
Social Cognition
schema
4. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
neuron
Abnormal psychology
debriefing
Heritability
5. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.
William Dement
correlation coefficient
hindbrain
Psychotic
6. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
Harry Harlow
Masters & Johnson
Holmes & Rahe
Humanistic theory
7. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
Secondary Sex Characteristics
graded potential
placebo effect
Model
8. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
crystallized intelligence
Unconscious
pineal gland
transfer appropriate processing
9. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;
functionalism
health psychologist
pseudoscience
acetylcholine (ACh)
10. An insight therapy - developed be Carl Rogers - that seeks to help people evaluate the world and themselves from their own perspective by providing them with a nondirective environment and unconditional positive regard; also known as person-centered
Standardization
Albert Bandura
Client-centered therapy
Placebo effect
11. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
just noticeable difference (JND)
Ageism
Collective Unconscious
Stress
12. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
counseling psychologist
insulin
encoding specificity principle
Conditioning
13. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed
Object permanence
Displacement
elaborative rehearsal
Prevalence
14. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events
parathormone
Sensorimotor stage
synapse
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
15. 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.
Edward Thorndike
Cognitive Dissonance
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
double-blind procedure
16. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception
Social Facilitation
standard deviation
Conservation
bottom-up processing
17. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.
Grammar
short-term storage
forebrain
hindbrain
18. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction
cochlea
lens
Insomnia
heritability
19. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
Major depressive disorder
Learning
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
working memory
20. The sense of hearing
audition
aversive conditioning
dominant genes
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
21. A person's experiences in the environment
parallel processing
Gender Schema Theory
nurture
Representative sample
22. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
Attachment
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Equity Theory
Brightness
23. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
Motivation
independent variable
Token economy
Phallic Stage
24. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands
Manifest Content
Learning
Resilience
William Sheldon
25. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
Substance Abuser
norepinephrine
Unconditioned Response
Anal Stage
26. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
frontal lobes
Albert Ellis
hippocampus
27. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary
Gordon Allport
range
Fulfillment
Opponent-process theory
28. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior
Robert Sternberg
Motivation
Albert Ellis
normal distribution
29. Body sense of equilibrium and balance
science
Hermann Rorschach
vestibular sense
Secondary Punisher
30. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality
Impression Formation
Alfred Adler
Linguistics
Receptive fields
31. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
brain
Superego
Electromagnetic Radiation
human genomes
32. Inability to understand or use language
Socrates
aphasia
preconventional level of moral development
hypothesis
33. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
Self-perception Theory
dependent variable
Heuristics
Robert Zajonc
34. 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
set point
Henry Murray
schema
35. 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
Psychoanalysis
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Social Need
36. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes
dominant genes
Extrinsic motivation
scientific method
Problem Solving
37. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Representative sample
Robert Sternberg
38. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons
thalamus
afferent neuron nerve
antagonist
rehearsal
39. Intelligence and learning - self-fulfilling prophecy; Study Basics: Researchers misled teachers into believing that certain students had higher IQs. Teachers changed own behaviors and effectively raised the IQ of the randomly chosen students
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Types
Secondary Punisher
Harry Harlow
40. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
Consciousness
Psycholinguistics
conventional level of moral development
Concordance rate
41. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine
Health psychology
thyroid gland
experimental group
Appraisal
42. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
heritability
Concept
human genomes
chunks
43. The human need to fulfill one's potential
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
Charles Darwin
self-actualization
Transduction
44. Shift in electrical charge in a tiny area of the neuron (temporary); transmits a long cell membranes leaving neuron and polarized state; needs higher than normal threshold of excitation to fire
just noticeable difference (JND)
behaviorism
graded potential
Subliminal perception
45. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
Standardization
Bystander Effect
Social Facilitation
Mainstreaming
46. Piaget's thrid stage of cognitive development (lasting from approximately age 6 or 7 to age 11 or 12) - during which the child develops the ability to understand constant factors in the environment - rules - and higher-order symbolic systems
Concrete operational stage
fovea
pitch
Secondary Reinforcer
47. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
neural plasticity
Zygote
Clark Hull
Social Loafing
48. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities
Gender
Self-efficacy
structuralism
Kurt Lewin
49. A trait or inherited characteristic that has increased in a population because it solved a problem of survival or reproduction
survey research
menarche
adaptation
Wechsler intelligence tests
50. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients
Raymond Cattell
Coping
Gazzaniga or Sperry
sensory memory