AP Psych Terms
1.abnormal behavior
2.absolute threshold
3.accommodation(sensory)
4.accommodation vs. assimilation
5.acetylcholine
6.acetylcholine & Alzheimer's
7.achievement test
8.activation-synthesis theory of dreaming
9.acquisition during conditioning
10.adaptation
11.adaptive behavior
12.adrenal gland
13.afferent neuron
14.afterimage
15.agonist/antagonist
16.agoraphobia
17.Mary Ainsworth
18.algorithm
19.all-or-none response
20.alpha waves
21.Gordon Allport
22.altruism
23.amygdala
24.anatomy of ear
25.angular gyrus
26.anterograde amnesia
27.antisocial personality disorder
28.anorexia nervosa
29.anxiety disorders
30.APA ethical guidelines
31.aphasia
32.approach-approach conflict
33.approach-avoidance conflict
34.aptitude test
35.Ellliot Aronson
36.arousal theory
37.Solomon Asch
38.assimilation (Piaget)
39.attachment style (Ainsworth)
40.attraction
41.attribution theory
42.authoritarian style
43.authoritative style
44.autism
45.autonomic/somatic nervous system
46.availabililty heuristic
47.aversive conditioning
48.avoidance-avoidance conflict
49.avoidant personality disorder
50.axon
51.babbling stage
52.Albert Bandura
53.basic trust
54.basilar membrane
55.behavioral psychologist
56.Aaron Beck
57.belief bias
58.binocular cues: retinal disparity & convergence
59.biofeedback
60.bipolar neurons (eye)
61.bipolar disorder
62.Blakemore & Cooper study
63.blind spot
64.borderline personality disorder
65.Broca's area
66.building block of nervous system
67.bulimia
68.bystander effect
69.Cannon-Bard theory ofemotion
70.case study
71.catatonia
72.catharsis
73.Raymond Cattell
74.cerebral cortex
75.cholea
76.Norm Chomsky
77.chunking
78.circadian rhythm (25 hr.)
79.classical conditioning
80.clinical depression
81.closure
82.cochlea
83.cognitive dissonance
84.cognitive psychologist
85.collectivism vs. individualism
86.color blindness
87.compulsions
88.computerized axial tomography (CAT)
89.cones
90.conditioned taste
91.aversion
92.confirmation bias
93.conformity
94.confounding variables
95.conservation
96.content validity
97.continuity
98.control group
99.convergent thinking
100.conversion disorder
101.corpuscollosum
102.correlation
103.correlational study
104.cortisols
105.counterconditioning
106.criterion-related validity
107.critical period
108.crystallized intelligence
109.cross-sectional study
110.defense mechanisms
111.deindividuation
112.deinstitutionalization
113.delta waves
114.delusions
115.dendrite
116.denial
117.dependent variable
118.depressant
119.depth perception
120.descriptive/inferential statistics
121.diagnostic labeling
122.dichotic listening
123.difference threshold (JND)
124.diffusion of responsibility
125.discrimination (conditioning)
126.displaced aggression
127.displacement
128.dissociation vs. social influence theory of hypnosis
129.dispositional attribution
130.dissociative identity disorder
131.divergent thinking
132.dopamine – relationship to schizophrenia
133.double-blind
134.Down syndrome
135.drive-reduction theory
136.drug categories & examples
137.DSM-IV-TR
138.dysthymic disorder
139.Hermann Ebbinghaus
140.echoic memory
141.eclectic approach
142.efferent neuron
143.ego
144.egocentrism
145.eidetic memory
146.electroconvulsive shocktherapy (ECT)
147.electroencephalogram (EEG)
148.emotion
149.empirically derived
150.encoding
151.endorphins
152.enlarged, fluid-filled areas in cerebral tissue & schizophrenia
153.epinephrine
154.episodic memory
155.Erik Erikson (all stages)
156.evolutionary perspective
157.expectancy or set
158.experiment
159.experimental psychologist
160.experimenter bias
161.explicit memory
162.external locus of control
163.extinction of conditioned response (how?)
164.extraversion/introversion
165.extrinsic motivation
166.factor analysis
167.false consensus effect
168.feature detectors (Hubel & Wiesel)
169.feel-good, do-good phenomenon
170.Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
171.figure-ground
172.fixation
173.fixed-interval schedule
174.fixed-ratio schedule
175.flashbulb memory & amygdala
176.flaws in research design
177.fluid intelligence
178.fovea
179.foot-in-the-door phenomenon
180.framing
181.free association
182.frequency theory vs.place theory in hearing
183.Sigmund Freud
184.frontal lobe
185.frustration-aggression principle
186.fugue
187.functional fixedness
188.functional MRI (fMRI)
189.functionalism (philosophical basis)
190.fundamental attribution error
191.g factor (Spearman)
192.GABA
193.Phineas Gage
194.Franz Gall (phrenology)
195.ganglion cells (eye)
196.ganzfeld procedure
197.Gardner’s theory of intelligence
198.gate-control theory
199.gender schema theory
200.general adaptation syndrome
201.generalized anxiety disorder
202.gestalt therapy
203.gestalt principles of grouping: proximity, similarity, continuity, connectedness, closure
204.Carole Gilligan
205.glial cells
206.grammar
207.group polarization
208.groupthink
209.gustatory receptors
210.gyruscinguli
211.habituation
212.hallucinations
213.Harry Harlow
214.heuristic
215.heritability
216.Hilgard & hidden observer (hypnosis theory)
217.hindsight bias
218.hippocampus
219.histrionic personality disorder
220.holophrase
221.homeostasis
222.hormones
223.Karen Horney
224.humanistic psychologist
225.hypnogogic sensations
226.hypnosis
227.hypochondriasis
228.hypothalamus
229.iconic memory
230.id
231.illusory correlation
232.implicit memory
233.implosion therapy
234.imprinting
235.incentive
236.motivation
237.independent variable
238.inner ear (structures & functions)
239.insight
240.instinct
241.insulin
242.issues in psychology:stability/change, rationality/irrationality, nature/nurture
243.intelligence quotient (calc. & def.)
244.interneurons
245.internal locus of control
246.interposition
247.intrinsic motivation
248.William James
249.James-Lange theory of emotion
250.Carl Jung (collective unconscious)
251.just noticeable difference
252.just-world phenomenon
253.kinesthetic sense
254.Lawrence Kohlberg (3 stages of morality)
255.Wolfgang Kohler
256.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
257.language acquisition (theories)
258.latent dream content
259.lateral hypothalamus
260.law of effect (Thorndike)
261.L-dopa
262.learned helplessness
263.left frontal lobe & depression
264.left hemisphere
265.lens
266.lesion
267.LeVay’s studies
268.limbic system
269.linguistic relativity hypothesis
270.lithium
271.lobotomyEgas Moniz
272.Elizabeth Loftus & reconstructive memory
273.longitudinal study
274.long-term potentiation
275.Konrad Lorenz
276.magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
277.major depressive disorder
278.mania
279.manifest dream content
280.Abraham Maslow & hierarchy of needs
281.maturation
282.mean
283.measures of central tendency
284.median
285.medulla oblongata
286.memes
287.menarche
288.mental age
289.mental set
290.mere exposure effect
291.metacognition
292.middle ear
293.Stanley Milgram
294.mirror-image perceptions
295.MMPI
296.mnemonic device
297.mode
298.modeling
299.monocular cues: relative size, interposition, relative clarity, texturegradient, relative height, relative movement, linear perspective, light & shadow)
300.mood-congruent memory
301.morpheme
302.motor & sensory cortex
303.motor neuron
304.Muller-Lyer illusion
305.multiple personality disorder
306.myelin sheath
307.Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
308.narcissistic personality disorder
309.narcotic
310.negative reinforcement (NOT punishment)
311.neural networks
312.neurosis
313.neurotransmitters (inhibitory & excitatory)
314.night terrors vs. nightmares
315.night vision
316.norepinephrine
317.normal distribution
318.norms
319.null hypothesis
320.object-relations theory
321.observational learning
322.obsessions
323.occipital lobe
324.olfactory (only sense to bypass thalamus)
325.operant conditioning
326.operational definition
327.opponent-process theory
328.opposing tendencies
329.optic chiasm
330.optimistic explanatory style
331.oval window
332.overjustification effect
333.panic disorders
334.parallel processing
335.paranoia
336.parietal lobe
337.partial (intermittent) reinforcement
338.Ivan Pavlov
339.perceptual constancies
340.permissive style
341.person-centered psychotherapy
342.phenylketonuria(PKU)
343.pheromones
344.Phi phenomenon
345.phobias
346.phoneme
347.physiological addiction
348.Piaget's stages of development
349.pituitary gland
350.placebo
351.pleasure principle/reality principle
352.pons
353.positive reinforcement
354.positive/negative symptoms of schizophrenia
355.positron emission tomography (PET)
356.post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
357.place theory (hearing)
358.placebo
359.plasticity
360.prejudice
361.primacy effect
362.primary/secondary reinforcers
363.proactive interference
364.procedural memory
365.projection
366.projective test
367.prolactin
368.prototype
369.proximity
370.psychoanalysis
371.psychodynamic (derived from Freud)/psychoan-alytic (Freud)
372.psychophysics
373.psychosexual stages
374.psychosis
375.psychotherapy
376.punishment
377.random assignment
378.random selection
379.randomization
380.rational-emotive therapy (Ellis)
381.rationalization
382.reaction formation
383.recency effect
384.reciprocal determinism
385.reciprocity norm
386.refractory period
387.regression
388.regression toward the mean
389.rehearsal
390.reliability
391.REM sleep
392.replication
393.repression
394.representativeness heuristic
395.research: case study, naturalistic observation, correlational studies, longitudinal research, cross-sectional studies, experiments
396.resistance (in psychoanalysis)
397.respondent behavior
398.response bias
399.reticular formation
400.retrieval
401.retroactive interference
402.retrograde amnesia
403.reuptake
404.reversibility
405.right hemisphere
406.rods
407.Carl Rogers
408.rooting
409.Rorschach test
410.Rosenhan’s study & diagnostic labels
411.savant syndrome
412.scapegoating
413.Sandra Scarr
414.scatterplot
415.Schacter's two-factor theory
416.schema
417.schizoid personality disorder
418.schizophrenia (4 types)
419.seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
420.secondary sex characteristics
421.selective attention
422.self-actualization needs
423.self-efficacy
424.self-fulfilling prophecy
425.self-serving bias
426.Martin Seligman
427.Hans Selye
428.semantics
429.semi-circular canal
430.sensorineural hearing loss vs. conduction loss
431.sensory adaptation
432.sensory neuron
433.serial position effect
434.serotonin
435.set point
436.sexual response cycle
437.shape constancy
438.shaping
439.short-term memory
440.signal detection theory
441.similarity (in perception)
442.situational attribution
443.size constancy
444.skewed left (or right) distribution
445.B. F. Skinner
446.sleep apnea
447.sleep spindles
448.social exchange theory
449.social facilitation
450.social inhibition
451.social learning theory
452.social loafing
453.social trap
454.sodium & potassium/actionpotential
455.somatoform disorder
456.split-half reliability
457.spontaneous recovery
458.spotlight effect
459.SSRI
460.standard deviation
461.Stanford-Binet
462.state-dependent learning
463.stereotype
464.Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence
465.stimulant
466.stimulus generalization
467.storage (memory)
468.stroboscopic motion
469.structuralism (philosophical basis)
470.sublimation
471.subliminal messages
472.superego
473.superordinate goals
474.sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous system
475.symptoms of schizophrenia
476.synapse
477.syntax
478.systematic desensitization
479.taste aversion (Garcia & Koelling study)
480.telegraphic speech
481.temporal lobe
482.temperament
483.teratogens
484.Lewis Terman
485.terminal buttons
486.testosterone
487.thalamus
488.Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
489.Theory X/Theory Y
490.threshold (neural firing)
491.thyroxine
492.token economy
493.tolerance
494.top-down/bottom-up processing
495.trait theory
496.transduction
497.transference
498.Type A & B personalities (Friedman & Rosenman)
499.validity
500.variable-ratio schedule
501.variable-interval schedule
502.variance
503.ventromedial hypothalamus
504.vestibular sense
505.visual capture
506.visual cliff
507.John B. Watson
508.Weber’s law
509.Wechsler intelligence scales
510.(WAIS, WISC)
511.Wernicke's area
512.Benjamin Whorf
513.Withdrawal
514.Wilhelm Wundt
515.Yerkes-Dodson Law
516.Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory
517.z-score
518.Robert Zajonc
519.zygote