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AP Psychology
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1. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
short-term storage
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Longitudinal Study
2. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; criticized Freud - stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses - rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts - neurotic trends; concept of 'basic anxiety'
Assimilation
axon
Social Cognition
Karen Horney
3. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be
inferential statistics
Holmes & Rahe
refractory period
William Dement
4. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall
working memory
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Anna O.
kinesthesis
5. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.
Systematic desensitization
experiment
William Dement
Anna O.
6. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
naturalistic observation
Prejudice
Bulimia Nervosa
imagery
7. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.
endocrine system
spinal cord
Group therapy
aphasia
8. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results
Raymond Cattell
dualism
Panic Attack
Hallucinogens (AKA psychedelic drugs)
9. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
Reliability
Latency Stage
random sample
mode
10. An individual's genetic make-up
Psycholinguistics
Henry Murray
genotype
Carl Jung
11. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved
Reactance
hormone
Fetus
chunks
12. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
Excitement phase
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
imagery
Substance Abuser
13. A need or want that causes someone to act
motive
Emotion
Heuristics
Defense Mechanism
14. The tendency of people in a group to seek concurrence with one another when reaching a decision - rather than effectively evaluating options.
Prevalence
Groupthink
motivated forgetting
Personal Fable
15. Creates a computerized image using x-rays passed through the brain
computerized axial tomography (CT scan)
Projection
Psychodynamically
dependent variable
16. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature
Dementia
Major depressive disorder
split brain patients
Validity
17. 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 -
Conformity
thyroxine
developmental psychologist
glial cells
18. Did work on short-term memory
Major depressive disorder
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Stressor
Monochromats
19. The brain and spinal cord
Ideal Self
Syntax
central nervous system
monocular cues
20. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
Ego
Subgoal analysis
emotional intelligence
observer bias
21. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.
Oral Stage
Id
split brain patients
forebrain
22. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
psychology
Albert Bandura
Delusions
Edward Bradford Titchener
23. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
functionalism
Language
Latent Learning
recency effect
24. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
motor projection areas
random sample
Shaping
Von Restorff effect
25. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Prototype
gene
ex post facto study
26. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.
Overjustification effect
myelin sheath
Functional fixedness
adaptation
27. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
Babinski reflex
(cerebral) cortex
Benjamin Whorf
frequency polygon
28. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall
informed consent
transfer appropriate processing
Raw score
Edward Thorndike
29. 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 .
Darley & Latane
John Locke
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
Counterconditioning
30. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data
psychometrician
thyroid gland
bottom-up processing
interneurons
31. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state
Impression Formation
health psychologist
memory span
Resolution Phase
32. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.
Backward search
Tolerance
control group
Grammar
33. Colored part of the eye that regulates size of pupil
thyroid gland
iris
empiricism
forensic psychologist
34. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next
amnesia
placebo
Self-efficacy
genetics
35. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.
Equity Theory
placebo
replication
relative refractory period
36. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe
Dependence
variable
midbrain
Ekman & Friesen
37. The cessation of the ability to reproduce
response bias
Group therapy
Approach-approach conflict
menopause
38. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.
anterograde amnesia
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Dichromats
Masters & Johnson
39. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire
Grasping reflex
autonomic nervous system
kinesthesis
excitatory neurotransmitter
40. An environmental stimulus that affects an organism in physically or psychologically injurious ways - usually producing anxiety - tension - and physiological arousal
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson
Ernst Weber
Arousal
Stressor
41. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)
Health psychology
bulimia nervosa
endocrine glands
Preoperational stage
42. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent
Antisocial personality disorder
case study
Absolute threshold
Stanley Schachter
43. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.
Backward search
Group
Need for achievement
Solomon Asch
44. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception
bottom-up processing
Latent Learning
Socrates
Negative Reinforcement
45. The view that knowledge should be acquired through observation and often an experiment
Client-centered therapy
Observational Learning Theory
empiricism
dualism
46. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
nurture
bulimia nervosa
Genital Stage
47. Synaptic gap or synaptic space; tiny gap between the terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron (almost never touch); location of the transfer of an impulse from one neuron to the next
Zygote
synaptic cleft
Hyperopic
Functional fixedness
48. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.
Dissociative amnesia
Dementia
Sublimation
Interpretation
49. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Sucking reflex
Classical Conditioning
hypnosis
midbrain
50. 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.
frequency polygon
Electromagnetic Radiation
Means-ends analysis
Unconscious