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AP Psychology
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1. Sharpness of vision
action potential
Saturation
family studies
visual acuity
2. Occurs when recall is better for a distinctive item - even if it occurs in the middle of a list
Family therapy
Bonding
Syntax
Von Restorff effect
3. Personality assessment; created the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) with Christina Morgan - stated that the need to achieve varied in strength in different people and influenced their tendency to approach and evaluate their own performances
Gender
clinical psychologist
Henry Murray
pupil
4. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes
Von Restorff effect
control group
heritability
Interpersonal Attraction
5. Top of the spinal column
nonconscious
health psychologist
brainstem
all-or-none principle
6. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
Demand characteristics
Receptive fields
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
7. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.
Primary Punisher
rods
Reactance
Abraham Maslow
8. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment
developmental psychologist
Puberty
Punishment
Mary Ainsworth
9. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
Experimental design
Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Embryo
Variable-ratio Schedule
10. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
Elizabeth Loftus
Zygote
Ex Post Facto Design
Charles Spearman
11. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Anal Stage
Harry Harlow
Motive
Bulimia Nervosa
12. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.
Debriefing
Assessment
Variable-ratio Schedule
sports psychologist
13. Transparent covering of the eye
Variable-ratio Schedule
crystallized intelligence
cornea
Extinction (classical conditioning)
14. Depth cues that are based on one eye
Langer & Rodin
monocular cues
Oedipus Complex
Model
15. The process by which the probability of an organism's emitting a response is reduced when reinforcement no longer follows the response
Stimulus Generalization
frequency
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Backward search
16. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints
Decentration
motor projection areas
forensic psychologist
excitatory neurotransmitter
17. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans
Embryo
Tolman
optic nerve
authoritarian parenting
18. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)
Need
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Reinforcer
Rationalization
19. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.
representative sample
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
Assimilation
20. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement
Drug
placebo
(cerebral) cortex
resting potential
21. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality
Albert Ellis
forebrain
Group Polarization
Fulfillment
22. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait
dominant genes
Jean Piaget
Unconditioned Response
Self-efficacy
23. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes
psychometrician
Groupthink
DNA
Concept
24. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.
Paranoid type of schizophrenia
Body Language
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Longitudinal Study
25. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat
Ivan Pavlov
standard deviation
John B Watson
Discrimination
26. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
conventional level of moral development
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Dark adaptation
significant difference
27. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.
Morpheme
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Backward search
binocular cues
28. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants
Decentration
Extrinsic motivation
Syntax
Self-fulfilling prophecy
29. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.
refractory period
Residual type of schizophrenia
psychobiology
Transference
30. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
Stress
declarative memory
psychologist
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
31. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
Latent Learning
dopamine
Light
Phobic disorders
32. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation
Biofeedback
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Dissociative identity disorder
observer bias
33. Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.
Abraham Maslow
Aggression
naturalistic observation
range
34. The suppression of one bit of information by another
Broca's area
interference
Bipolar disorder
Ageism
35. The second level of the three organizational structures of the brain that receives signals from other parts of the brain or spinal cord and either relays the information to other parts of the brain or causes the body to act immediately; involved in m
Observational Learning Theory
Libido
midbrain
nerve
36. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing
neural plasticity
monism
John Locke
Signal Detection Theory
37. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma
Experimental design
Photoreceptors
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
social psychologist
38. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood
variability
Gender Identity
Ageism
Adolescence
39. The level of consciousness devoted to processes completely unavailable to conscious awareness (e.g. - fingernails growing)
Androgynous
Counterconditioning
nonconscious
conventional level of moral development
40. Conscious memory that a person is aware of
dominant genes
explicit memory
self-fulfilling prophecy
Harry Stack Sullivan
41. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids
parathormone
ex post facto study
Stanley Schachter
Longitudinal Study
42. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness
Double-blind techniques
Self-serving Bias
Psychoactive Drug
evolutionary psychology
43. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
nurture
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
blind spot
Secondary Punisher
44. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
zone of proximal development
Expectancy Theories
retina
state-dependent learning
45. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
Edward Bradford Titchener
Blood-Brain Barrier
neural impulse
Charles Spearman
46. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'
thalamus
agonist
menarche
psychometrician
47. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior
clinical psychologist
Von Restorff effect
sensory neurons
Transference
48. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
Size constancy
psychiatrist
retrograde amnesia
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
49. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress
Problem Solving
Albert Bandura
Holmes & Rahe
placebo effect
50. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior
Latent Learning
working memory
Demand characteristics
encoding