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AP Psychology
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1. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
Monochromats
psychobiology
hormone
Prosocial Behavior
2. A descriptive statistic that measures the variability of data from the mean of the sample
standard deviation
prenatal development
Stanley Schachter
Skinner Box
3. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones
maintenance rehearsal
retina
Zygote
correlation coefficient
4. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
David Weschler
gate control theory
acetylcholine (ACh)
unconscious
5. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
fraternal twins
Placebo effect
Preconscious
psychoanalytic
6. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study
Descriptive Studies
hypothesis
Monochromats
working memory
7. Emotional intelligence
difference threshold
Daniel Goleman
Subgoal analysis
Trait
8. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
demand characteristics
Benjamin Whorf
Excitement phase
social psychologist
9. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.
Linguistics
Resistance
Androgynous
hindbrain
10. 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.
cerebellum
Robert Zajonc
Theory of mind
Major depressive disorder
11. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
binocular cues
Ekman & Friesen
science
Residual type of schizophrenia
12. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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13. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina
Fixation
nonconscious
lens
Arousal
14. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
anorexia nervosa
Psychosurgery
Negative Reinforcement
Photoreceptors
15. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles
Phillip Zimbardo
central nervous system
Circadian Rhythms
Conservation
16. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
median
Normal curve
Hobson & McCarley
Alzheimer's Disease
17. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
positive psychology
pupil
Ex Post Facto Design
Leon Festinger
18. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
Generalized anxiety disorder
autonomic nervous system
Langer & Rodin
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
19. Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.
Token economy
Antisocial personality disorder
Aggression
Assimilation
20. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
amnesia
afferent neuron nerve
Self-efficacy
Psychosurgery
21. 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.
Francis Galton
Approach-approach conflict
Superego
Ego
22. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
sensory memory
Photoreceptors
Phonology
Cross-sectional study
23. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal
Gender stereotype
Need
encoding specificity principle
selection studies
24. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus
Vulnerability
Unconditioned Response
correlation coefficient
population
25. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after predetermined but varying amounts of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once after each interval
Variable-interval Schedule
correlation coefficient
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
26. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh
instinct
Circadian Rhythms
monocular cues
Stanley Milgram
27. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Self-efficacy
Genital Stage
Bulimia Nervosa
Counterconditioning
28. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Socrates
John B Watson
Psychophysics
endocrine system
29. 17th century English philosopher. Wrote that the mind was a 'blank slate' or 'tabula rasa'; that is - people are born without innate ideas. We are completely shaped by our environment .
John Locke
nature
Self-serving Bias
top-down processing
30. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
Law of Effect
sociocultural psychology
gate control theory
Nonverbal Communication
31. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Fixation
Light
Creativity
pupil
32. Number of wavelengths that pass a point in a given amount of time; determines hue of light and the pitch of a sound
frequency
Elizabeth Loftus
Schizophrenic disorders
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
33. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
schema
Attachment
heritability
refractory period
34. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.
Trichromats
cognitive psychology
Elizabeth Loftus
timbre
35. An observable action
Body Language
Light
Reactance
behavior
36. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'
proactive interference
pituitary gland
Benjamin Whorf
schema
37. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
dualism
Conformity
gonads
Aristotle
38. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never
Gender Identity
Rosenhan
range
Spontaneous Recovery
39. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
William Sheldon
prenatal development
Robert Rosenthal
adrenal glands
40. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body
memory span
implicit memory
set point
Standard score
41. Primary area for processing visual information
Conditioning
crystallized intelligence
occipital lobes
preconscious
42. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.
Temperament
Systematic desensitization
Alfred Binet
Approach-avoidance conflict
43. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking
Schema
normal distribution
Systematic desensitization
cognitive psychology
44. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
Body Language
Self-perception Theory
binocular cues
Psychodynamically
45. Freud's first stage of personality development - from birth to about age 2 - during which the instincts of infants are focused on the mouth as the primary pleasure center.
Karen Horney
Size constancy
Oral Stage
Schizophrenic disorders
46. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life
Trait
Algorithm
industrial/organizational psychologist
Experimental design
47. Does research on how people function best with machines
engineering psychologist
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Resolution Phase
48. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
Sucking reflex
Ideal Self
Grammar
Longitudinal Study
49. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening
Lucid Dream
Collective Unconscious
Latent Learning
Standard score
50. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
mode
Albert Ellis
Mainstreaming
Fixed-ratio Schedule