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AP Psychology
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1. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
Fundamental Attribution Error
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Stimulus Discrimination
rehearsal
2. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
Standardization
Nonverbal Communication
procedural memory
developmental psychologist
3. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
Gestalt psychology
Resilience
Harry Stack Sullivan
4. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking
memory
behavioral genetics
Resolution Phase
Gazzaniga or Sperry
5. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
Model
Aristotle
myelin sheath
pituitary gland
6. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.
Social Categorization
efferent neuron nerve
Photoreceptors
scientific method
7. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
fovea
Ego
proactive interference
percentile score
8. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
polygenic inheritance
pineal gland
gene
agonist
9. 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.
Conditioned Stimulus
dualism
Altruism
Major depressive disorder
10. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
Preconscious
Herman von Helmholtz
central nervous system
Child abuse
11. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature
hypothalamus
Generalized anxiety disorder
nature-nurture controversy
Decentration
12. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
Variable-ratio Schedule
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Wechsler intelligence tests
Nonverbal Communication
13. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.
Fixed-interval Schedule
Self-serving Bias
Group
Teratogen
14. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)
replication
bulimia nervosa
Repression
Personality
15. Memory a person is not aware of possessing
implicit memory
Psychoneuroimmunology
sensory memory
forensic psychologist
16. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech
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17. Automatic behavior that occurs involuntarily in response to a stimulus and without prior learning and usually shows little variability from instance to instance
Free association
Reflex
Unconditioned Stimulus
informed consent
18. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.
Anal Stage
selection studies
William James
health psychologist
19. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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20. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain
fluid intelligence
gate control theory
Transduction
Vulnerability
21. Memory for specific information
Theory of mind
Assimilation
declarative memory
Arousal
22. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
Preoperational stage
mode
Carol Gilligan
Child abuse
23. 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
Double-blind techniques
forebrain
normal distribution
Validity
24. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.
Dream analysis
frequency distribution
Ego
Prevalence
25. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.
Receptive fields
Transduction
lens
Jean Piaget
26. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.
Superego
Repression
Trichromatic theory
Wechsler intelligence tests
27. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
split brain patients
receptor site
Benjamin Whorf
sensory memory
28. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.
Naturalistic observation
William Dement
sound localization
Group therapy
29. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement
long-term potentiation
Grasping reflex
Coping
Superstitious Behavior
30. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones
Superego
somatic nervous system
retina
action potential
31. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched
Learned helplessness
Social Psychology
Babinski reflex
procedural memory
32. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment
monism
strain studies
William James
memory
33. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Bulimia Nervosa
hippocampus
rehearsal
eclectic
34. Humanistic psychology; Contributions: founded client-centered therapy - theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth - unconditional positive regard -
monism
opponent-process theory of emotion
Intrinsic motivation
Carl Rogers
35. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
binocular cues
episodic memory
Mary Cover-Jones
Functional fixedness
36. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically
Preoperational stage
Equity Theory
visual acuity
Model
37. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
experimenter bias
hypnosis
Group therapy
afferent neuron nerve
38. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Puberty
spinal cord
hypnosis
Resistance
39. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.
Interpersonal Attraction
Phobic disorders
Alzheimer's Disease
Residual type of schizophrenia
40. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body
Social Need
neuron
interference
emotional intelligence
41. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
Gestalt psychology
Stanley Schachter
Group therapy
neurogenesis
42. Body sense of equilibrium and balance
Babinski reflex
Insomnia
vestibular sense
Secondary Sex Characteristics
43. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.
Mainstreaming
Ideal Self
myelin sheath
Phineas Gage
44. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies
population
Metal retardation
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Heuristics
45. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
prenatal development
Gibson & Walk
dependent variable
Anal Stage
46. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function
Rosenthal & Jacobson
lens
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Phineas Gage
47. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
Schema
Anxiety
Id
thyroid gland
48. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ on an important dimension
Cross-sectional study
cochlea
Dark adaptation
parietal lobes
49. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior
twin studies
Bonding
Psychotherapy
Konrad Lorenz
50. In Roger's theory of personality - the perception an individual has of himself or herself and of his or her relationships to other people and to various aspects of life.
Grasping reflex
Actor-observer Effect
Self
endorphins