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AP Psychology
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1. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information
retroactive interference
Primary Reinforcer
Personal Fable
Robert Yerkes
2. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age
hormone
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Concordance rate
Representative sample
3. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
motivated forgetting
hypothesis
Electromagnetic Radiation
Variable-ratio Schedule
4. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus
Conditioned Response
Wechsler intelligence tests
Id
axon terminal
5. 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
Social Categorization
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Variable-ratio Schedule
Phineas Gage
6. 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
Displacement
corpus callosum
Emotion
representative sample
7. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
dependent variable
neuroscience
Variable-ratio Schedule
Trichromats
8. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both
Elizabeth Loftus
Drug
Conservation
Edward Bradford Titchener
9. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning
Insomnia
pons
Phineas Gage
Social Interest
10. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
observer bias
action potential
Psychoactive Drug
median
11. 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
Clark Hull
Oral Stage
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
12. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.
autonomic nervous system
forebrain
Mediation
inhibitory neurotransmitter
13. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
median
blind spot
David Weschler
Conformity
14. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls
Kenneth Clark
Libido
Denial
Free association
15. The time in to development of an organism when it is especially sensitive to certain environmental influences; outside of that period the same influences will have far less effect
Object permanence
Interpretation
Robert Rosenthal
Critical Period
16. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning
survey research
Variable-ratio Schedule
placebo effect
Resilience
17. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
Approach-avoidance conflict
short-term storage
set point
Raymond Cattell
18. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes
Excitement phase
endocrine system
Standard score
Case study
19. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior
theory
Self-efficacy
Groupthink
Reaction Formation
20. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
efferent neuron nerve
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Reliability
Tolman
21. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality
Defense Mechanism
forebrain
Anna Freud
Types
22. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve
Normal curve
Sensorimotor stage
Syntax
Hermann Ebbinghaus
23. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands
Arousal
Gender Identity
median
Body Language
24. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Abraham Maslow
forensic psychologist
Percentile score
25. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain
convolutions
preconventional level of moral development
Herman von Helmholtz
Moro reflex
26. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population
Heritability
Self-actualization
Transduction
dopamine
27. When a neuron is in polarization; more negative ions are inside the neuron cell membrane with a positive ions on the outside - causing a small electrical charge; release of this charge generates a neuron's impulse (signal/message)
declarative memory
resting potential
Overjustification effect
Attitudes
28. An unconscious way of reducing anxiety by distorting perceptions of reality.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Child abuse
Reaction Formation
Defense Mechanism
29. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself
Sublimation
conventional level of moral development
Intrinsic motivation
Schema
30. 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
Working through
Primary Reinforcer
genetics
31. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life
Self-actualization
Hobson & McCarley
axon
Attachment
32. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons
afferent neuron nerve
Rape
Wernicke's area
structuralism
33. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Carl Rogers
Algorithm
Denial
34. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.
refractory period
declarative memory
Tolerance
short-term storage
35. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
Syntax
Edward Bradford Titchener
thyroxine
Manifest Content
36. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s
opponent-process theory of emotion
ex post facto study
corpus callosum
Abnormal psychology
37. A group of psychological disorders characterized by a lack of reality testing and by deterioration of social and intellectual functioning and personality beginning before age 45 and lasting at least 6 months
Schizophrenic disorders
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
David McClelland
Developmental Psychology
38. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream
Psychotic
Tolerance
Manifest Content
Case study
39. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Appraisal
Fetus
introspection
40. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.
demand characteristics
Rational-emotive therapy
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Mainstreaming
41. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
refractory period
twin studies
Social Facilitation
Naturalistic observation
42. The biologically based categories of male and female
Sex
Means-ends analysis
Extrinsic motivation
statistics
43. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
control group
Aristotle
Karl Wernicke
Dependence
44. Prejudice against the elderly and the resulting discrimination against them
difference threshold
Karen Horney
Divergent thinking
Ageism
45. Maintenance of a constant state of inner stability or balance
Gender stereotype
Holmes & Rahe
Homeostasis
Zajonc & Markus
46. Top of the spinal column
brainstem
cornea
Aaron Beck
Learned helplessness
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
Schema
Hobson & McCarley
ethnocentrism
Residual type of schizophrenia
48. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.
double-blind procedure
Fetus
Ego
spinal cord
49. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
Personality
neural plasticity
Benjamin Whorf
Stimulus Generalization
50. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)
William Sheldon
heritability
Extrinsic motivation
flashbulb memories