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AP Psychology
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1. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.
Need
Stressor
Variable-interval Schedule
Semantics
2. Prejudice against the elderly and the resulting discrimination against them
Photoreceptors
Ageism
Overjustification effect
transfer appropriate processing
3. Humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization - transcendence
Norms
Dependence
Abraham Maslow
audition
4. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.
Client-centered therapy
psychology
Psychophysics
placebo
5. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.
Nonverbal Communication
Erik Erikson
Clark Hull
Validity
6. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.
Rooting reflex
nurture
Convergent thinking
Trichromats
7. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.
Backward search
pseudoscience
Validity
procedural memory
8. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation
short-term storage
top-down processing
Standard score
Heuristics
9. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.
Time-out
Secondary Reinforcer
Operant Conditioning
Gender Schema Theory
10. Studies psychological development across the lifespan
Superstitious Behavior
semantic memory
developmental psychologist
corpus callosum
11. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
brain
Prototype
Psychoactive Drug
Sociobiology
12. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
Androgynous
Functional fixedness
Time-out
retroactive interference
13. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself
Projection
Equity Theory
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Intrinsic motivation
14. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
Positive Reinforcement
Sensation
Rosenhan
Deviation IQ
15. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands
Ernst Weber
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
genetics
Resilience
16. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.
Latent Learning
descriptive statistics
Walter B. Cannon
Receptive fields
17. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands
psychoanalytic
motor projection areas
Linguistics
survey research
18. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience
imagery
opponent-process theory of emotion
Cognitive Psychology
Gestalt psychology
19. Creates a computerized image using a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves
John Locke
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
polarization
nerve
20. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series
recency effect
Leon Festinger
schema
psychoanalytic
21. An observable action
Semantics
association areas
behavior
Social Need
22. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience
behaviorism
gene
Wilhelm Wundt
monocular cues
23. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval
Cross-sectional study
Fixed-interval Schedule
Latent Content
Schizophrenic disorders
24. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior
Spontaneous Recovery
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Trichromatic theory
Emotion
25. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned
phenotype
frequency polygon
sociocultural psychology
Conditioning
26. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
chromosome
cochlea
Attachment
Higher-order Conditioning
27. A test score that has not been transformed or converted in any way
Raw score
Equity Theory
parallel processing
Rosenthal & Jacobson
28. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Intelligence
motive
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
29. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion
autonomic nervous system
Ekman & Friesen
blind spot
split brain patients
30. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
Latent Content
Collective Unconscious
Operant Conditioning
ex post facto study
31. The process by which the probability of an organism's emitting a response is reduced when reinforcement no longer follows the response
Oral Stage
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Child abuse
Sensation
32. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
science
flashbulb memories
Descriptive Studies
Lucid Dream
33. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
neurogenesis
Anna Freud
pancreas
schema
34. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females
Aaron Beck
Gender stereotype
descriptive statistics
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
35. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.
Intimacy
Creativity
psychoanalytic
Lewis Terman
36. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter
Rape
Bipolar disorder
Stanley Milgram
antagonist
37. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life
Substance Abuser
David Weschler
anterograde amnesia
sports psychologist
38. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond
percentile score
demand characteristics
Francis Galton
monism
39. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
Carol Gilligan
cognitive psychology
parathormone
Placebo effect
40. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech
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41. A test designed to predict a person's future performance
preconventional level of moral development
Abnormal Behavior
aptitude test
significant difference
42. Released by adrenal glands; triggered by norepinephrine to prolong the response to stress (used in the sympathetic nervous system)
zone of proximal development
significant difference
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Robert Yerkes
43. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea
Von Restorff effect
Opponent-process theory
Phallic Stage
David Rosenhan
44. Style of parenting marked by emotional coldness - imposing rules and expecting obedience
efferent neuron nerve
Masters & Johnson
insulin
authoritarian parenting
45. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve
ex post facto study
prenatal development
Specific phobia
Normal curve
46. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period
Specific phobia
Teratogen
Projection
Debriefing
47. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research
Lev Vygotsky
Tolman
Dissociative disorders
Logic
48. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Burnout
ex post facto study
double-blind procedure
Fixation
49. Theory that holds that an observer's perception depends not only on the intensity of a stimulus but also on the observer's motivation - the criteria he or she sets for determining that a signal is present - and on the background noise.
Phoneme
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Signal Detection Theory
Child abuse
50. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body
survey research
Hermann Ebbinghaus
humanistic psychology
kinesthesis