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AP Psychology
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1. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement
Nonverbal Communication
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
(cerebral) cortex
Plateau phase
2. 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.
Howard Gardner
Cross-sectional study
psychologist
Oral Stage
3. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
midbrain
endocrine system
Carl Jung
myelin sheath
4. 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
graded potential
motivated forgetting
functionalism
emotional intelligence
5. The view that knowledge should be acquired through observation and often an experiment
Phobic disorders
Dichromats
empiricism
motor neurons
6. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat
vestibular sense
Generalized anxiety disorder
Bonding
Interpretation
7. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion
Anal Stage
Ekman & Friesen
Subliminal perception
empiricism
8. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
timbre
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Social phobia
difference threshold
9. 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
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Self-perception Theory
Hue
10. Did work on short-term memory
binocular cues
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
measure of central tendency
normal distribution
11. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates
Clark Hull
peripheral nervous system
Id
Reliability
12. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.
Prosocial Behavior
Linguistics
Discrimination
natural selection
13. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
Howard Gardner
Ivan Pavlov
mode
retroactive interference
14. 'Wernicke's area'; discovered area of left temporal lobe that involved language understanding: person damaged in this area uses correct words but they do not make sense
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Shaping
humanistic psychology
Karl Wernicke
15. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors
Orgasm phase
amygdala
Adolescence
Jean Piaget
16. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness
Negative Reinforcement
Saccades
Egocentrism
Robert Yerkes
17. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Percentile score
Dark adaptation
Arousal
Validity
18. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
genetics
polarization
David McClelland
Interpretation
19. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
Conditioned Stimulus
Drive
Approach-approach conflict
Survey
20. Commonly occurring behavior can reinforce a less frequent behavior
nervous system
olfaction
counseling psychologist
Premack principle
21. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area
health psychologist
Orgasm phase
forebrain
Hans Eysenck
22. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
Subgoal analysis
Skinner Box
Self-efficacy
inhibitory neurotransmitter
23. Observed group differences based on the era when people were born and grew up - exposing them to particular experiences that may affect the results of cross-sectional studies
amygdala
frequency distribution
Reliability
cohort effect
24. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives
Latent Learning
Fixed-interval Schedule
Ego
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
25. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
David Weschler
Oral Stage
Solomon Asch
Gender stereotype
26. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation
Health psychology
Hermann Ebbinghaus
hypothesis
Karl Wernicke
27. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.
Charles Spearman
Stressor
Vulnerability
episodic memory
28. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
Bipolar disorder
episodic memory
Robert Yerkes
Receptive fields
29. Moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication
mode
Lawrence Kohlberg
Clark Hull
experiment
30. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.
Skinner Box
Latency Stage
flashbulb memories
Androgynous
31. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score
psychobiology
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
behavioral genetics
percentile score
32. The study of the lifelong - often age-related - processes of change in the physical - cognitive - moral - emotional - and social domains of functioning; such changes are rooted in biological mechanisms that are genetically controlled - as well as in
gustation
Adolescence
Developmental Psychology
Specific phobia
33. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill
Drive
adaptation
Concrete operational stage
placebo
34. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all
Mainstreaming
Placebo effect
counseling psychologist
all-or-none principle
35. Study of the brain and nervous system; overlaps with psychobiology
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Lewis Terman
Attachment
neuroscience
36. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe
midbrain
Moro reflex
Gender Schema Theory
Hans Eysenck
37. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
John Locke
encoding specificity principle
sensory memory
Anorexia Nervosa
38. 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.
midbrain
Anxiety
Social Need
Positive Reinforcement
39. Sets of strategies - rather than strict rules - that act as guidelines for discovery-oriented problem solving.
central nervous system
Libido
cognitive psychology
Heuristics
40. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
selective attention
Fundamental Attribution Error
John Garcia
forensic psychologist
41. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
Drive
sample
Token economy
sports psychologist
42. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
Logic
significant difference
Signal Detection Theory
menarche
43. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Symptom substitution
Vasocongestion
Babinski reflex
44. The first person to study memory scientifically and systematically; used nonsense syllables and recorded how many times he had to study a list to remember it well
cerebellum
Heritability
Hermann Ebbinghaus
nonconscious
45. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum
psychometrician
hindbrain
Edward Bradford Titchener
Opponent-process theory
46. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites
synapse
Stressor
Egocentrism
memory
47. 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.
convolutions
Sociobiology
central nervous system
clinical psychologist
48. Synaptic gap or synaptic space; tiny gap between the terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron (almost never touch); location of the transfer of an impulse from one neuron to the next
aptitude test
John Garcia
Concrete operational stage
synaptic cleft
49. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
Thanatology
unconscious
Object permanence
Assimilation
50. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards
Spontaneous Recovery
token economy
Wechsler intelligence tests
thyroxine