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AP Psychology
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1. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.
Francis Galton
Zajonc & Markus
implicit memory
Language
2. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.
crystallized intelligence
Self-serving Bias
normal distribution
proactive interference
3. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Schizophrenic disorders
Monochromats
retroactive interference
4. Neurotransmitter that affects sleep - arousal - mood - appetite; lack of it is linked with depression
Gender
serotonin
Manifest Content
Benjamin Whorf
5. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
Burnout
long-term memory
Divergent thinking
Double bind
6. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
parathyroid
introspection
norepinephrine
Functional fixedness
7. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.
Photoreceptors
Mainstreaming
René Descartes
Major depressive disorder
8. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
Shaping
motive
recency effect
Hobson & McCarley
9. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society
social psychologist
blind spot
amygdala
conventional level of moral development
10. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
Alzheimer's Disease
control group
Cognitive Dissonance
Carol Gilligan
11. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they believe they are so special and unique that other people cannot understand them and risky behaviors will not harm them
Personal Fable
Size constancy
sound localization
iris
12. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent
Trichromats
chunks
Self-perception Theory
case study
13. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance
Primary Reinforcer
Francis Galton
selection studies
Robert Yerkes
14. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
Social Loafing
brain
Sublimation
James-Lange theory of emotion
15. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness
efferent neuron nerve
Anna Freud
olfaction
preconscious
16. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory
Dissociative disorders
Moro reflex
decay
Conflict
17. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world
schema
Specific phobia
phenotype
Elizabeth Loftus
18. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
selective attention
Health psychology
parallel processing
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
19. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles
unconscious
frontal lobes
Superego
response bias
20. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.
sensory memory
Psychotherapy
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Dark adaptation
21. Visual theory - proposed by Herring - that color is coded by stimulation of three types of paired receptors; each pair of receptors is assumed to operate in an antagonist way so that stimulation by a given wavelength produces excitation (increased fi
long-term memory
consolidation
Phillip Zimbardo
Opponent-process theory
22. Response to the belief that the IV will have an effect - rather than the IV's actual effect - which can be a confounding variable
association areas
placebo effect
sound localization
dependent variable
23. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation
Consciousness
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
naturalistic observation
Fulfillment
24. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.
imagery
health psychologist
Standard score
Preconscious
25. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place
Egocentrism
Denial
Altruism
nervous system
26. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place
Variable-interval Schedule
educational psychologist
Albert Bandura
nonconscious
27. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Stimulant
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
Manifest Content
Altruism
28. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches
eclectic
Stressor
Reflex
menarche
29. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles
Approach-avoidance conflict
ions
Phobic disorders
hindbrain
30. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.
Wernicke's area
frontal lobes
Linguistics
Syntax
31. A state of mental discomfort arising from a discrepancy between two or more of a person's beliefs or between a person's beliefs and overt behavior.
Group
Denial
Gender Schema Theory
Cognitive Dissonance
32. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time
Extrinsic motivation
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Expectancy Theories
association areas
33. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.
Cognitive Psychology
Panic Attack
nonconscious
epinephrine
34. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform
long-term memory
declarative memory
timbre
Von Restorff effect
35. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response
thalamus
Skinner Box
observer bias
ex post facto study
36. Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.
Aggression
nerve
encoding specificity principle
parietal lobes
37. The sense of hearing
audition
Conditioning
Phineas Gage
Noam Chomsky
38. The cessation of the ability to reproduce
Dissociative disorders
central nervous system
menopause
Preconscious
39. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body
neuron
Classical Conditioning
school psychologist
Developmental Psychology
40. Sharpness of vision
Erik Erikson
thyroxine
visual acuity
John Garcia
41. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning
Phineas Gage
binocular cues
descriptive statistics
preconventional level of moral development
42. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
Edward Bradford Titchener
mutation
long-term memory
Sex
43. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
Preconscious
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Type A behavior
authoritarian parenting
44. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
Alzheimer's Disease
Imaginary Audience
Agoraphobia
Type B behavior
45. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter
Phoneme
Aristotle
antagonist
nurture
46. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.
Types
gene
Means-ends analysis
frequency
47. Process by which a conditioned response becomes associated with a stimulus that is similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus
hindbrain
Stimulus Generalization
Carl Rogers
Plateau phase
48. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.
Sex
Myopic
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
preconscious
49. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur
Withdrawal Symptoms
Punishment
Negative Reinforcement
Preconscious
50. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
Subliminal perception
standard deviation
Paul Ekman
Little Albert
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