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AP Psychology
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1. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
Gender Schema Theory
encoding
Systematic desensitization
Preconscious
2. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat
Lucid Dream
Anorexia Nervosa
maintenance rehearsal
conventional level of moral development
3. The increase in sensitivity to light that occurs when the illumination level changes from high to low - causing chemicals in the rods and cones to regenerate and return to their inactive state.
Transduction
Rooting reflex
Dream
Dark adaptation
4. Creates a computerized image using x-rays passed through the brain
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
pons
Systematic desensitization
achievement test
5. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response
informed consent
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Self-perception Theory
Stressor
6. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
school psychologist
Unconscious
dendrites
Tolerance
7. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time
decay
Critical Period
case study
Judith Langlois
8. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
spinal cord
neuron
psychobiology
Descriptive Studies
9. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
Social Facilitation
instinct
Self-perception Theory
nervous system
10. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts
Receptive fields
parietal lobes
Holmes & Rahe
Subliminal perception
11. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.
fluid intelligence
primacy effect
psychiatrist
Denial
12. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.
Higher-order Conditioning
Hans Eysenck
Aggression
Unconscious
13. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Schizophrenic disorders
ions
Need for achievement
peripheral nervous system
14. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve
Need for achievement
normal distribution
Mary Ainsworth
Collective Unconscious
15. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions
hindbrain
Bipolar disorder
Alfred Adler
somatic nervous system
16. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.
Type B behavior
John Locke
Transduction
Problem Solving
17. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp
Obedience
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Raw score
Developmental Psychology
18. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.
David Weschler
Electromagnetic Radiation
population
Conditioning
19. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)
convolutions
Judith Langlois
neural impulse
Libido
20. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory
hippocampus
schema
Collective Unconscious
encoding specificity principle
21. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
Approach-approach conflict
Hyperopic
dependent variable
operational definition
22. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
(cerebral) cortex
state-dependent learning
Defense Mechanism
Darley & Latane
23. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.
Impression Formation
Dichromats
lens
conventional level of moral development
24. Period of development from conception until birth
prenatal development
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Normal curve
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
25. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes
genetic mapping
Unconditioned Stimulus
Groupthink
declarative memory
26. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
mode
participant
moral development
Masters & Johnson
27. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
naturalistic observation
normal distribution
Carl Jung
Social Psychology
28. Transparent covering of the eye
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Stanley Schachter
cornea
levels-of-processing approach
29. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
Behavior therapy
frontal lobes
Cognitive Dissonance
psychometrician
30. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
Orgasm phase
insulin
Stimulus Discrimination
retina
31. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Major depressive disorder
anterograde amnesia
cornea
Equity Theory
32. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment
Ego
Robert Sternberg
Sublimation
Intelligence
33. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward
Learned Helplessness
anterograde amnesia
Vulnerability
excitatory neurotransmitter
34. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it
Anorexia Nervosa
Reinforcer
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
35. Pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning) - stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls - children mimicked play
Albert Bandura
Concordance rate
John Locke
Grasping reflex
36. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.
Intimacy
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
population
EEG (electroencephalogram)
37. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it
Stress
Stanley Schachter
Subliminal perception
token economy
38. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients
Reinforcer
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Hue
39. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
agonist
Naturalistic observation
conventional level of moral development
Kurt Lewin
40. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time
Critical Period
gustation
parathormone
Type A behavior
41. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
Representative sample
Wechsler intelligence tests
schema
somatic nervous system
42. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.
Interpersonal Attraction
Residual type of schizophrenia
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Clark Hull
43. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
Rooting reflex
Prosocial Behavior
recessive gene
authoritarian parenting
44. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
Robert Zajonc
Karl Wernicke
Id
human genomes
45. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment
Learning
Zajonc & Markus
Naturalistic observation
Unconscious
46. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results
Impression Formation
fluid intelligence
self-fulfilling prophecy
Descriptive Studies
47. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Abnormal psychology
Deviation IQ
Child abuse
inhibitory neurotransmitter
48. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.
Major depressive disorder
Prevalence
Extinction (classical conditioning)
experiment
49. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.
Psychoanalysis
Social Categorization
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
motivated forgetting
50. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input
aphasia
educational psychologist
ESP
Henry Murray