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AP Psychology
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1. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need
Resolution Phase
Drive
Schema
Need for achievement
2. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
cornea
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
forebrain
Assimilation
3. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.
Catatonic type of schizophrenia
menopause
significant difference
polarization
4. Elements of an experimental situation that might cause a participant to perceive the situation in a certain way or become aware of the purpose of the study and thus bias the participant to behave in a certain way - and in so doing - distort results.
Hobson & McCarley
Demand characteristics
synapse
Motive
5. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
Heritability
Benjamin Whorf
Oedipus Complex
Unconditioned Response
6. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
Object permanence
Masters & Johnson
brain
Self-fulfilling prophecy
7. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Subliminal perception
Imaginary Audience
decay
Intelligence
8. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
Nonverbal Communication
selection studies
Stanley Milgram
Sucking reflex
9. 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.
Group Polarization
Superego
measure of central tendency
Concept
10. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation
Standardization
inferential statistics
David McClelland
Fixed-interval Schedule
11. 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
Developmental Psychology
genetics
Intelligence
Thanatology
12. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.
Social Influence
inferential statistics
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Raw score
13. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
David Weschler
Dissociative identity disorder
Albert Ellis
nature
14. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data
Circadian Rhythms
audition
statistics
mean
15. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Transduction
parathormone
Self-efficacy
16. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
neural plasticity
dendrites
Jean Piaget
Self-serving Bias
17. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes
DNA
Denial
Grasping reflex
Hue
18. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Dissociative disorders
Superego
genetic mapping
Fixation
19. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
excitatory neurotransmitter
Judith Langlois
parallel processing
hypnosis
20. A period after firing when a neuron is returning to its normal polarize state and will only fire again if the incoming message open parentheses impulse) is stronger than usual; returning to arresting state
Punishment
Primary Punisher
relative refractory period
aptitude test
21. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information
Type A behavior
Monochromats
Free association
proactive interference
22. Reflex that causes a newborn to turn the head toward a light touch on lips or cheek
Prejudice
Rooting reflex
debriefing
Observational Learning Theory
23. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory
crystallized intelligence
Dissociative disorders
Unconditioned Stimulus
placebo
24. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging
sensory adaptation
Little Albert
Gazzaniga or Sperry
replication
25. The principle that those characteristics and behaviors that help organisms adapt - be fit - and survive will be passed on to successive generations - because flexible - fit individuals have a greater chance of reproduction
percentile score
natural selection
correlation coefficient
Abraham Maslow
26. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services
Functional fixedness
Zajonc & Markus
Mainstreaming
Elaboration Likelihood Model
27. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
Electromagnetic Radiation
Psychosurgery
Optic chiasm
Aggression
28. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
selection studies
mutation
median
Preconscious
29. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.
Residual type of schizophrenia
Trait
Schizophrenic disorders
Intimacy
30. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Health psychology
mutation
authoritative parenting
31. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.
Fixed-interval Schedule
strain studies
John B Watson
Psychosurgery
32. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores
Hyperopic
measure of central tendency
Unconditioned Response
Deindividuation
33. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Little Albert
memory
dominant genes
34. Establish the relationship between two variables
nature-nurture controversy
photoreceptors
Dependence
correlational research
35. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement
Size constancy
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
experiment
thalamus
36. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants
Trait
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Consciousness
Child abuse
37. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear
Accommodation
moral development
Psycholinguistics
Little Albert
38. 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.
experimental group
Self
Unconditioned Stimulus
Homeostasis
39. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids
parathormone
nonconscious
encoding specificity principle
Imaginary Audience
40. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
Insight therapy
schema
synapse
Karl Wernicke
41. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.
Cross-sectional study
brain
Social Categorization
Heuristics
42. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors
photoreceptors
instinct
survey research
Self-actualization
43. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
Regression
Double bind
achievement test
Factor analysis
44. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Intimacy
Unconscious
nervous system
Bulimia Nervosa
45. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response
Expectancy Theories
encoding specificity principle
Skinner Box
Wolpe
46. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information
Von Restorff effect
retroactive interference
postconventional level of moral development
levels-of-processing approach
47. In Piaget's view - a specific mental structure; an organized way of interacting with the environment and experiencing it- a generalization a child makes based on comparable occurences of various actins - usally physical - motor actions
Gender
Schema
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
variability
48. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments
behaviorism
Gender Schema Theory
ions
participant
49. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
Fulfillment
Approach-avoidance conflict
Gender Schema Theory
Raymond Cattell
50. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.
Assessment
(cerebral) cortex
Electromagnetic Radiation
Psychotherapy