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AP Psychology
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1. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
dependent variable
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
chunks
insulin
2. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
Model
Libido
Optic chiasm
Psychotic
3. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged
bottom-up processing
ethnocentrism
limbic system
Solomon Asch
4. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image
anorexia nervosa
Variable-interval Schedule
Langer & Rodin
brain
5. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Operant Conditioning
Dark adaptation
anterograde amnesia
Representative sample
6. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
Superstitious Behavior
Social Influence
Subliminal perception
Brainstorming
7. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)
Hyperopic
William Sheldon
graded potential
proactive interference
8. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve
Self-actualization
cognitive psychology
Normal curve
Learned Helplessness
9. 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
Burnout
Case study
Interpersonal Attraction
forebrain
10. A group of psychological disorders characterized by a lack of reality testing and by deterioration of social and intellectual functioning and personality beginning before age 45 and lasting at least 6 months
Schizophrenic disorders
Formal operational stage
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
psychology
11. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
excitatory neurotransmitter
Dream
behavioral genetics
Carol Gilligan
12. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions
Lawrence Kohlberg
triarchic theory of intelligence
Dream analysis
hypothalamus
13. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
twin studies
(cerebral) cortex
industrial/organizational psychologist
14. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data
Psychotic
episodic memory
memory
descriptive statistics
15. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons
parallel processing
afferent neuron nerve
cerebellum
Carl Rogers
16. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input
Martin Seligman
Fixed-ratio Schedule
ESP
Erik Erikson
17. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
Anxiety
dopamine
Language
psychologist
18. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.
Type A behavior
Ageism
nerve
Psychotic
19. Top of the spinal column
Henry Murray
Sensation
Absolute threshold
brainstem
20. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age
fluid intelligence
Cognitive theories
kinesthesis
Positive Reinforcement
21. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
frontal lobes
Classical Conditioning
Trichromatic theory
Unconditioned Stimulus
22. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste
spinal cord
clinical psychologist
Ageism
glial cells
23. A division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions; made up of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
Primary Punisher
Learning
adrenal glands
autonomic nervous system
24. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
Clark Hull
Law of Effect
limbic system
Health psychology
25. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.
Hyperopic
family studies
counseling psychologist
Types
26. Adrenaline; activates a sympathetic nervous system by making the heart beat faster - stopping digestion - enlarging pupils - sending sugar into the bloodstream - preparing a blood clot faster
Aggression
Logic
inferential statistics
epinephrine
27. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Id
Judith Langlois
Zajonc & Markus
28. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
Consciousness
Elizabeth Loftus
Drug
Aristotle
29. The sense of hearing
psychoanalytic
structuralism
Defense Mechanism
audition
30. Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people - ideas - or objects that are based on a person's past experiences - shape his or her future behavior - and are evaluative in nature.
corpus callosum
Attitudes
nervous system
Decentration
31. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Counterconditioning
self-fulfilling prophecy
Prosocial Behavior
32. The highness or lowness of a sound
John B Watson
limbic system
pitch
adaptation
33. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions
limbic system
Creativity
gonads
Temperament
34. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
zone of proximal development
Edward Bradford Titchener
Intrinsic motivation
synapse
35. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
Algorithm
Specific phobia
Electromagnetic Radiation
Health psychology
36. Neutral stimulus that - through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus - begins to elicit a conditioned response
dualism
Conditioned Stimulus
Specific phobia
Gender Identity
37. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.
parathyroid
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Prejudice
random sample
38. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)
Means-ends analysis
Biofeedback
Fundamental Attribution Error
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
39. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic value for an organism but that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer
Secondary Reinforcer
Consciousness
dopamine
Albert Bandura
40. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.
Thanatology
Learning
Libido
motivated forgetting
41. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
Assessment
Wechsler intelligence tests
Type B behavior
behaviorism
42. An individual's genetic make-up
Metal retardation
Intrinsic motivation
genotype
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
43. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
sympathetic nervous system
Carl Jung
parathormone
Morality
44. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking
Intelligence
state-dependent learning
Self-fulfilling prophecy
cognitive psychology
45. 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'
chromosome
Concordance rate
thalamus
Systematic desensitization
46. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
Social Influence
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
ex post facto study
Personality
47. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.
Skinner Box
demand characteristics
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Secondary Sex Characteristics
48. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion
Rationalization
Variable-interval Schedule
Ekman & Friesen
Embryo
49. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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50. Cognition and memory; studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony
genotype
Holmes & Rahe
Conformity
Elizabeth Loftus