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AP Psychology
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1. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
debriefing
Placenta
mutation
inhibitory neurotransmitter
2. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts
parietal lobes
Rational-emotive therapy
scientific method
Edward Bradford Titchener
3. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.
autonomic nervous system
Reaction Formation
parallel processing
Attributions
4. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.
Fixation
Agoraphobia
Aaron Beck
encoding
5. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Genital Stage
Decision making
dependent variable
6. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment
natural selection
Mary Ainsworth
Transference
Social phobia
7. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes
memory
ethics
Norms
insulin
8. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia
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9. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Functional fixedness
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Object permanence
10. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.
Stimulant
Charles Spearman
declarative memory
Vulnerability
11. Cognition and memory; studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony
Elizabeth Loftus
Decentration
memory
Conformity
12. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior
Bulimia Nervosa
David McClelland
Intimacy
clinical psychologist
13. The biochemical processes that make it easier for the neuron to respond again when it has been stimulated
Group therapy
long-term potentiation
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Psychotherapy
14. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome
Edward Bradford Titchener
experimenter bias
Photoreceptors
Sex
15. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence
Morpheme
independent variable
flashbulb memories
retroactive interference
16. 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
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
zone of proximal development
Benjamin Whorf
midbrain
17. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
inhibitory neurotransmitter
Anal Stage
Excitement phase
health psychologist
18. Able to see objects at a distance clearly but having trouble seeing things up close; farsighted
Kenneth Clark
scientific method
nature-nurture controversy
Hyperopic
19. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)
Hans Eysenck
Clark Hull
blind spot
refractory period
20. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
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21. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort
Harry Harlow
Social Psychology
memory
Insomnia
22. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
placebo effect
psychoanalytic
Withdrawal Symptoms
Prejudice
23. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
lens
nonconscious
split brain patients
Regression
24. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
Saccades
Positive Reinforcement
menarche
Abraham Maslow
25. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)
long-term memory
Approach-approach conflict
encoding specificity principle
Wechsler intelligence tests
26. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
Robert Rosenthal
Optic chiasm
Drive
control group
27. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.
Oedipus Complex
random sample
decay
motor neurons
28. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
Humanistic theory
encoding specificity principle
scientific method
naturalistic observation
29. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.
afferent neuron nerve
Personal Fable
Brainstorming
frequency distribution
30. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior
shaping
Mary Cover-Jones
Abnormal Behavior
Superstitious Behavior
31. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field
Imaginary Audience
Time-out
crystallized intelligence
Model
32. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time
John B Watson
Coping
Longitudinal Study
decay
33. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement
(cerebral) cortex
Anorexia Nervosa
Adolescence
authoritative parenting
34. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
genetics
Equity Theory
recessive gene
Reaction Formation
35. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.
state-dependent learning
Means-ends analysis
Heuristics
opponent-process theory of emotion
36. The first person to study memory scientifically and systematically; used nonsense syllables and recorded how many times he had to study a list to remember it well
sensory memory
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Cognitive Dissonance
Naturalistic observation
37. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
Collective Unconscious
Robert Zajonc
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
agonist
38. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series
polarization
Discrimination
recency effect
Unconscious
39. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.
(cerebral) cortex
Gordon Allport
Psycholinguistics
Self-efficacy
40. 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
experiment
Generalized anxiety disorder
pseudoscience
Wechsler intelligence tests
41. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
Subliminal perception
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Collective Unconscious
placebo effect
42. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior
Object permanence
Motivation
polygenic inheritance
Extinction (operant conditioning)
43. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.
Phillip Zimbardo
kinesthesis
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
Defense Mechanism
44. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data
Halo effect
Factor analysis
counseling psychologist
gene
45. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior
genotype
Prevalence
Edward Thorndike
Theory of mind
46. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred
psychometrician
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Fixed-ratio Schedule
Critical Period
47. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable
Robert Rosenthal
mutation
Grasping reflex
operational definition
48. 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.
cognitive psychology
photoreceptors
Mediation
Phobic disorders
49. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.
dendrites
Self-perception Theory
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Ekman & Friesen
50. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.
Repression
vestibular sense
Optic chiasm
Social Loafing