AP Psychology
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Aaron Beck's view of
depression
absolute threshold
achievement vs. aptitude tests
action vs. resting potential
acuity-vision
agonist vs. antagonist
chemicals
Ainsworth Strange Situation
(Paradigm)
Afferent Neurons vs. Efferent
Neurons
Albert Bandura: major view on
learning and Bobo Doll
experiment
Albert Ellis - Rational Emotive
Therapy (RET)
Alfred Adler - inferiority
complex
algorithm
all-or-nothing law (all-or-none)
of neural firing
altruism
American Psychological
Association (APA)
amnesia (anteriograde &
retrograde)
androgyny
apparent motion
arousal
Asch's conformity study (line
segments)
attachment
attribution theory
aversive conditioning (good or
bad?)
aversive conditions
Babinsky response
behavior as being adaptive
bell curve (normal distribution)
Benjamin Worf's theory of
linguistic relativism
(determinism)
binocular disparity
blind spot
blood brain barrier
brain: what part do we share
with animals? How do we
differ?
brainstorming
Broca's aphasia (expressive)
located in left frontal lobe
bystander intervention: factors
that influence it
Cannon's critique of JamesLange theory
Carl Rogers: person (client)
centered therapy
Carol Gilligan's critique of
Kohlberg's theory
catharsis
chaining
41. character disorders : major
ones
42. Noam Chomsky – lang.
Acquisition theory
43. chunking
44. classical conditioning ( & can
you distinguish it from operantl
conditioning)
45. Clever Hans experiment
46. cognitive dissonance
47. color blindness: kinds
48. complementary colors
49. conflicts: four kinds
50. control group
51. Cooper's research on visual
processing (using cats)
52. correlation coefficients
53. cortexes of the brain : major
ones
54. cross cultural studies
55. cross sectional studies
56. crystallized intelligence:
acquired and usually does not
decline with age
57. CS-CR-UCS-UCR
58. Daniel Goleman's views on
emotional intelligence
59. David McClelland's
achievement motivation studies
60. deafness: two kinds Conductive and nerve
61. defense mechanisms: major
ones
62. deindividuation
63. deinstitutionalization
64. dendrite (purpose of)
65. depression: trycyclic
antidepressants are most
widely used to treat it
66. descriptive vs. inferential
statistics
67. determinism
68. developmental psychology
69. Diagnostic Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders ( purpose
and limits)
70. difference threshold (jnd)
71. discrimination (in learning
theory and race relations)
72. displacement
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dissociative disorders
74. divergent vs. convergent
thinking
75. dominant responses (aided by
social facilitation)
76. Down's syndrome
77. dream analysis
78. drives
79. Ebbinhaus' research on
memory
80. echoic memory
81. effects of marijuana
82. eidetic memory
83. electroconvulsive shock
therapy
84. Elizabeth Loftus' research on
eyewitness testimony
85. endocrine organs and
hormones secreted by them
86. endorphins
87. engram
88. episodic memory (a.k.a.
flashbulb)
89. equity theory of relationships
90. Erik Erikson's stages of
psychosocial development (8)
91. ethics of testing
92. ethnocentrism
93. expectancy theory (aka mental
set)
94. experiment: be able to design
one
95. false consensus effect
96. feature (signal) detector cells:
Hubel & Wisel's research on
visual processing
97. feature analysis
98. feral children
99. fetal alcohol syndrome:
characteristics
100. figure - ground phenomenon
101. Flynn effect
102. foot-in-the-door phenomenon
103. formal operations
104. fovea
105. Francis Galton's research
106. free association
107. frequency polygon
108. Freudian dream analysis:
two levels of interpretation
109. Freud's stage of
psychosexual development
110. frustration-aggression
hypothesis
111. functional fixedness
112. fundamental attribution error
113. galvanic skin response
(GRS)
114. ganglia
115. Gansfeld Procedure
116. Gate Control Theory of Pain
117. generalizability of a study
118. genotype & phenotype
119. Gestalt theory
120. glial cells
121. group therapy (advantages
of )
122. groupthink
123. gustatory sense: detects only
sweet, sour, salty, bitter
124. habituation
125. Hans Seyle's General
Adaptation Response
126. haptic memory
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Harry Harlow's research with
surrogate mothers
Hawthorne Effect
heuristics: major types
hierarchy of needs (Maslow)
can you put them in order?
high vs. low self-monitors
hindsight bias
histogram
homeostasis
Howard Gardner's view of
multiple intelligence
Hubel & Weisel – feature
detectors.
hue: (British term for color)
hybrid
hypnosis: major theories of
hypothalamus
id, ego, superego
IDEAL (strategy for solving
problems)
identical twin research
identification vs.
internalization (Freudian
terms)
illusory correlation
imaging techniques: PET,
CAT, MRI, FMRI
imprinting
incentives
independent/dependent
variables
induced motion
inductive vs. deductive
reasoning
industrial (organizational)
psychology
ingroup and outgroup bias
inner ear - vestibular sense
instinct
instrumental - operant
conditioning
Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.) Binet
intelligence tests (major
kinds used)
interference (proactive vs.
retroactive)
internal consistency reliability
internalization
intrinsic vs. extrinsic
motivation
James-Lange theory of
emotions
John Garcia's ideas on the
limits of conditioning
just-world phenomenon
Karen Horney's views on
development
kinesthetics
Kohlberg's stages of moral
reasoning (3)
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Kubler Ross' stages of dying
L-dopa
learning curve
limbic system: structures and
function
linear perspective
linkage analysis
lithium (bi-polar disorders)
localization of sound (how is
it done? Why are two ears
needed?)
long term potentiation
longitudinal study
loss of information from short
term memory
major neurotransmitters
Martin Seligman's "learned
helplessness"
Maslow – hierarchy of needs
measures of central
tendency: mean, median,
mode
measures of variability:
range and standard deviation
memory: kinds ( sensory,
short-term, long-term)
mental age
mental set
metacognition
method of loci
milieu therapy
Milgram – obedience
studies
Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Test: use for what?
misinformation effect
modeling –Albert Bandura
monocular vs. binocular
depth cues
motion aftereffect
motion parallax
myelin sheath: where &
purpose?
narcissism
nature vs. nurture
controversy
nervous system: major parts
neuron: three basic parts
neurotransmitters: major
kinds
newborn baby reflexes
next-in-line-effect
normative social influence
norms
novelty preference
obesity (role of
hypothalamus)
Obsessive Compulsive
Disorders (OCD)
occipital lobe
Oedipal conflict
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one eye problem - what you
couldn't do well if you had
only one eye
operationalizing a definition
opponent-process theory of
emotions
opponent-process theory of
visual processing
(afterimages)
optic disc
optic nerve
Optimistic Explanatory Style
pancreas
panic attacks (& what's the
best treatment?)
paradoxical sleep: why is
REM called this?
paresis
Pavlou – classical
conditioning
perceptual constancy
(size,color,shape)
perceptual set
personal space
perspectives in psychology
(major ones)
phenylketonuria (PKU)
phi phenomenon
phonemes vs. morphemes
photoreceptors
Piaget's stages of cognitive
development
pineal gland (function and
what makes it unique?)
pitch
pituitary gland
plasticity
positive and negative
symptoms (in mental
disorders)
positive reinforcement
post traumatic stress
disorder
Premack principle
primacy effect
primary vs. secondary
reinforcers
projective tests: TAT &
Rorschach
prosocial behavior: what is it
and give an example
proximity (effects on
relationships)
prototype
punishment: why it may not
be effective and might
backfire
Rational Emotive Therapy
(RET)
reality principle (function of
ego)
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recessive vs. dominant
genes
reflex arc
reliability vs. validity in
testing
REM sleep
repression
Rescola – classical
conditioning
reticular formation: related
to sleep, arousal, attention
retinal disparity (a.k.a.
binocular disparity)
Robert Rescorla's findings
on conditioning
rods and cones (structures &
differences)
rooting reflex
sample
scatterplot: most often used
to plot correlations
Schacter – 2 factor theory of
motivation
schedules of reinforcement
(5 kinds - which are most
effective?)
schema
schizophrenia
selective attention
self-efficacy
self-fulfilling prophecy
self-serving bias
semantic memory
serial position effect
set point
sexual characteristics
(primary vs. secondary)
sexual identity vs. gender
identity
shaping
signal detection theory
sleep disorders: major kinds
sleeper effect
social cognitive theory
social exchange theory
social facilitation
social loafing
social trap
somatoform disorders: major
kinds
somatosensory cortex:
location and used for what
sense?
George Sperling – sensory
memory
stages of learning
(acquisition, extinction,
spontaneous recovery, etc.)
standard deviation
Stanley Milgram's
experiement with obedience
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Stanley Schachter's Two
Factor Theory
stereotype
stimulus generalization
stranger anxiety
syllogism
systematic desensitization:
a.k.a. a kind of
counterconditioning
Tay-Sachs disease
testable hypothesis
thalamus (& what sense
doesn't get routed through
here?)
Thorndike's Law of Effect
thyroid gland
tip-of-the-tongue effect
token economy
Tourette's syndrome
tragedy of the commons
transduction
Turner's syndrome (X with
missing chromosome)
validity: different kinds
vestibular sense
visual cliff
water balance (role of
hypothalamus)
Weber's law
Wernicke's aphasia
(receptive) located in left
temporal lobe
Wilder Penfield's research on
the brain
Wilhelm Wundt
(structualism)
William James
(functionalism)
Yerkes/Dodson Arousal Law
Zajonc's "Mere Expose
Effect"
Zimbardo's prison
experiment