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AP Psychology
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1. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal
Social Loafing
pseudoscience
James-Lange theory of emotion
school psychologist
2. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
experimental group
parathormone
Approach-avoidance conflict
psychometrician
3. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors
Expectancy Theories
Types
visual acuity
Excitement phase
4. According to Piaget - the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences
Accommodation
Edward Bradford Titchener
Charles Darwin
hippocampus
5. 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.
Gender stereotype
just noticeable difference (JND)
Oral Stage
pituitary gland
6. The suppression of one bit of information by another
cornea
interference
Lev Vygotsky
Psychoactive Drug
7. Released by thyroid; hormone that regulates the body's metabolism; OVERACTIVE-over-excitability - insomnia - reduced attention span - fatigue - snap decisions - reduced concentration (hyperthyroidism); UNDERACTIVE-desire to sleep - constantly tired -
thyroxine
authoritarian parenting
Primary Punisher
working memory
8. The expression of genes
short-term storage
interference
Lev Vygotsky
phenotype
9. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI
David Weschler
Secondary Sex Characteristics
measure of central tendency
school psychologist
10. An observable action
Shaping
neuron
behavior
Halo effect
11. Automatic behavior that occurs involuntarily in response to a stimulus and without prior learning and usually shows little variability from instance to instance
Self-efficacy
token economy
Reflex
Electromagnetic Radiation
12. Organizing sensory information so it can be processed by the nervous system
encoding
Counterconditioning
health psychologist
rods
13. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals
Heuristics
variable
Rational-emotive therapy
hindbrain
14. The cessation of the ability to reproduce
Dissociative identity disorder
Social Categorization
gonads
menopause
15. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire
excitatory neurotransmitter
Gender stereotype
Schizophrenic disorders
Emotion
16. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register
sensory memory
recency effect
Absolute threshold
Psychoneuroimmunology
17. A fertilized egg
Algorithm
Approach-approach conflict
Zygote
declarative memory
18. An individual's genetic make-up
Gestalt psychology
Resilience
genotype
hypothesis
19. 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.
Transference
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Self-serving Bias
inhibitory neurotransmitter
20. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.
Stimulus Discrimination
Hue
Raw score
all-or-none principle
21. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.
Hue
Abnormal psychology
Logic
Psychoanalysis
22. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time
Metal retardation
Paul Ekman
Longitudinal Study
genetics
23. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
Projection
Functional fixedness
Accommodation
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
24. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.
decay
Bystander Effect
introspection
Reinforcer
25. 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
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Hobson & McCarley
Self-perception Theory
theory
26. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat
Generalized anxiety disorder
ESP
Social Loafing
Higher-order Conditioning
27. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat
Optic chiasm
ions
ex post facto study
Anorexia Nervosa
28. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Sucking reflex
Conservation
crystallized intelligence
29. The inability to perceive different hues.
Stimulant
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Insomnia
Color Blindness
30. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
Family therapy
Law of Effect
Aristotle
Psychotherapy
31. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants
Survey
serotonin
Secondary Punisher
convolutions
32. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.
measure of central tendency
Repression
rehearsal
recessive gene
33. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings
amnesia
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
bottom-up processing
psychologist
34. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.
Self-efficacy
ethnocentrism
Primary Reinforcer
Need for achievement
35. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
corpus callosum
Representative sample
Ideal Self
36. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data
John Garcia
Self-actualization
inferential statistics
Self-actualization
37. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure
iris
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Standard score
sports psychologist
38. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state
Benjamin Whorf
central nervous system
confounding variable
Resolution Phase
39. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics
Projective Tests
nature
Anna O.
representative sample
40. Pioneer in intelligence (IQ) tests - designed a test to identify slow learners in need of help-not applicable in the U.S. because it was too culture-bound (French)
brain
Alfred Binet
Self-efficacy
endocrine glands
41. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream
Manifest Content
scientific method
industrial/organizational psychologist
menopause
42. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
social psychologist
habituation
epinephrine
inferential statistics
43. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
ex post facto study
monocular cues
control group
kinesthesis
44. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints
pseudoscience
Stanley Schachter
Deviation IQ
Decentration
45. 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
Phineas Gage
Altruism
forensic psychologist
Stanley Schachter
46. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception
bottom-up processing
neuron
developmental psychologist
Projection
47. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
Preconscious
Phallic Stage
cones
sociocultural psychology
48. Does research on how people function best with machines
Ideal Self
engineering psychologist
pituitary gland
Self-efficacy
49. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
action potential
dendrites
parathyroid
Rape
50. 17th century English philosopher. Wrote that the mind was a 'blank slate' or 'tabula rasa'; that is - people are born without innate ideas. We are completely shaped by our environment .
Ekman & Friesen
central nervous system
Variable-ratio Schedule
John Locke