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AP Psychology
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1. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
pupil
sympathetic nervous system
Arousal
Case study
2. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes
fraternal twins
DNA
Perception
sensory adaptation
3. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.
Grammar
decay
Altruism
Debriefing
4. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
Mary Ainsworth
debriefing
survey research
informed consent
5. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
Fixation
binocular cues
Size constancy
Learned Helplessness
6. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood
Adolescence
Heritability
Personality disorders
aversive conditioning
7. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.
Obedience
Self-efficacy
Norms
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
8. 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.
cones
Mediation
Wolpe
kinesthesis
9. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
Absolute threshold
Gender stereotype
Self-perception Theory
Edward Bradford Titchener
10. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
Gibson & Walk
Social Loafing
efferent neuron nerve
Model
11. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Prevalence
Robert Rosenthal
Mary Cover-Jones
Opponent-process theory
12. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes
Latent Content
Conditioned Response
descriptive statistics
Morality
13. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior
Edward Thorndike
afferent neuron nerve
Stimulus Generalization
Masters & Johnson
14. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics
Major depressive disorder
flashbulb memories
Androgynous
Developmental Psychology
15. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation
positive psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
maintenance rehearsal
16. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
genotype
Prevalence
Representative sample
insulin
17. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.
blind spot
anorexia nervosa
Phoneme
Rape
18. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Latent Learning
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Ego
19. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.
ex post facto study
Ex Post Facto Design
Psychotherapy
token economy
20. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically
parathyroid
Leon Festinger
Harry Stack Sullivan
Preoperational stage
21. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene
Norms
norepinephrine
Aversive counterconditioning
recessive gene
22. Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.
Albert Ellis
Aggression
receptor site
Size constancy
23. 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.
Bystander Effect
Creativity
identical twins
Object permanence
24. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh
selection studies
Kenneth Clark
Circadian Rhythms
Heuristics
25. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.
spinal cord
Withdrawal Symptoms
Double bind
adrenal glands
26. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms
Standardization
Conditioning
preconventional level of moral development
Self-efficacy
27. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works
gonads
Harry Stack Sullivan
functionalism
inferential statistics
28. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole
Primary Punisher
norepinephrine
sound localization
Gestalt psychology
29. 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.
Gender
Perception
Self
psychoanalyst
30. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Alfred Adler
Disorganized type of schizophrenia
(cerebral) cortex
31. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body
Edward Thorndike
thalamus
spinal cord
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
32. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world
semantic memory
theory
William Dement
variable
33. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Noam Chomsky
Syntax
social psychologist
34. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus
Phineas Gage
Conditioned Response
Social Influence
pseudoscience
35. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message
myelin sheath
Moro reflex
action potential
Preoperational stage
36. Reproductive glands-male - testes; female - ovaries
timbre
range
gonads
memory
37. Perspective that seeks to explain and predict behaviors by analyzing how the human brain developed over time - how it functions - and how input from the environment affects human behaviors
evolutionary psychology
Systematic desensitization
Trichromatic theory
Paul Ekman
38. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Positive Reinforcement
myelin sheath
Insight therapy
39. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results
self-fulfilling prophecy
Insomnia
forebrain
interference
40. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
Dissociative disorders
Unconditioned Stimulus
naturalistic observation
Assessment
41. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness
pupil
Social phobia
refractory period
Transference
42. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response
conventional level of moral development
insulin
limbic system
Unconditioned Stimulus
43. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations
corpus callosum
Hobson & McCarley
mean
Embryo
44. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
Leon Festinger
Reflex
mode
frequency distribution
45. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data
statistics
scientific method
Superego
cohort effect
46. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion
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47. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Rationalization
Harry Harlow
Jean Piaget
48. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.
replication
Motive
brain
Wechsler intelligence tests
49. The process by which the location of sound is determined
sound localization
John B Watson
Approach-approach conflict
hypothalamus
50. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
Type B behavior
mode
Lucid Dream
Prevalence