AP Psychology Final Review Flashcards

8583733707	Who conducted the line experiment that tested conformity?	Asch	0
8583733708	What brain imaging technique is best used for detecting brain waves?	EEG	1
8583733709	This part of a neuron receives the message	Dendrite	2
8583733710	This type of memory plays back memories like a video, with vivid imagery	Episodic	3
8583733711	Transduction occurs in this part of the ear	Cochlea	4
8583733712	Baby Albert cried at the sight of white rats. What part of CC is crying at the rats?	Conditioned Response	5
8583733713	Branch of the nervous system that deals with voluntary actions	Somatic	6
8583733714	This Gestalt Law is described by viewing the stronger image first and the weaker second	Law of Good Figure	7
8583733715	Stronger correlation coefficients are closer to 1 or 0?	1	8
8583733716	Lobe of the brain that processes pain	Parietal	9
8583733717	Part of the brain that allows us to speak	Broca's Area	10
8583733718	This experiment by Bandura exemplified observational learning	Bobo Doll Experiment	11
8583733719	Low pitched sounds have a longer or shorter wavelength?	Longer	12
8583733720	When a neuron has fired and the leftover neurotransmitters are taken back into the axon terminals	Reuptake	13
8583733721	When every member of a population has an equal opportunity of being chosen	Random Sample	14
8583733722	Deterioration of this neurotransmitter has been linked to Alzheimer's	Acetylcholine	15
8583733723	Separate personalities existing in one person is which disorder	Dissociative Identity Disorder	16
8583733724	An extreme fear of something that gets in the way of daily life	Phobia	17
8583733725	Caffeine is what type of drug?	Stimulant	18
8583733726	Low levels of serotonin are linked to what disorder?	Depression	19
8583733727	Measure of central tendency where the most common number in a set is analyzed	Mode	20
8583733728	Lobe of the brain responsible for higher order thinking	Frontal Lobe	21
8583733729	A neuron fires at full strength every time is referred to as what	All-or-None	22
8583733730	Asking for a small request in the hopes of an agreement to a larger request	Foot-in-the-Door	23
8583733731	Part of the brain responsible for breathing, heartrate, and reflexes	Medulla	24
8583733732	Reverting back to child-like behaviors is known as what according to Freud	Regression	25
8583733733	Part of the brain that encodes memories	Hippocampus	26
8583733734	Taking away a teddy to decrease a bad behavior is what type of OC?	Negative Punishment	27
8583733735	Knowing an apple is an apple regardless of the angle is which monocular cue?	Constancy	28
8583733736	Basic units of meaning in speech	Morphemes	29
8583733737	What kind of correlation—the more you watch TV, the more poorly you do on an exam	Negative	30
8583733738	A type of drug that blocks a receptor site	Antagonist	31
8583733739	Food is what type of reinforcer?	Primary	32
8583733740	Psychological perspective that states that we must reach our full potential	Humanism	33
8583733741	Psychological perspective that is interested in the unconscious	Psychoanalytic	34
8583733742	The neurotransmitter released when you do something rewarding, like gambling	Dopamine	35
8583733743	The neurotransmitter released during a "runner's high"	Endorphins	36
8583733744	The storyline behind a dream	Manifest Content	37
8583733745	The ability to detect slight changes in hue refers to what?	The Difference Threshold	38
8583733746	The stage of sleep where dreams occur	REM	39
8583733747	Stage 1 of sleep has this brain wave pattern	Beta Waves	40
8583733748	The minimum threshold a neuron must reach to fire is what in millivolts?	-55mV	41
8583733749	Slow pain travels across what fibers?	C Fibers	42
8583733750	Getting stuck on a single use for an object is known as?	Functional Fixedness	43
8583733751	Type of learning with a "aha" moment	Insight	44
8583733752	The master gland of the endocrine system	Pituitary	45
8583733753	3rd stage of prenatal development	Fetal Stage	46
8583733754	Assuming that everyone with characteristics of one category, belongs to that category	Representativeness Heuristic	47
8583733755	Getting paid every two weeks on Friday is what type of reinforcement schedule?	Fixed Interval	48
8583733756	Stage where sleep spindles occur	Stage 2	49
8583733757	Part of the iceberg analogy that is the moral center according to Freud	Superego	50
8583733758	A thought process where someone cannot stop thinking about something	Obsession	51
8583733759	The first psychology textbook and class was set up by?	William James	52
8583733760	This psychologist's experiment looked at how often the teacher would shock the learner by listening to the man in the lab coat	Stanley Milgram	53
8583733761	Performing better in front of a group is called what?	Social Facilitation	54
8583733762	Taking out your anger on someone other than the source is called what?	Displacement	55
8583733763	Items that are not accounted for in an experiment that can effect results are known as	Confounding Variables	56
8583733764	Not noticing Ms. Z changing her scarf in class is known as what	Change Blindness	57
8583733765	Sense of taste is also called what?—	Gustation	58
8583733766	Spontaneous falling asleep during the day is what sleep disorder?	Narcolepsy	59
8583733767	Slowly exposing a person to their fear is known as what therapy?	Systematic Desensitization	60
8583733768	Losing memory after an accident is what type of amnesia?	Anterograde	61
8583733769	Branch of the nervous system that is "rest and digest"	Parasympathetic	62
8583733770	Variable in the experiment that the researcher can control	Independent	63
8583733772	This part of the neuron protects the axon and speeds up the message	Myelin Sheath	64
8583733773	Man who had a railroad tamping rod cut through his head	Phineas Gage	65
8583733774	Lack of Dopamine results in what disease?	Parkinson's	66
8583977933	This states that a test will get the same results if it is replicated	Reliability	67
8583998351	A group from which a sample can be selected from	Population	68
8584004724	This is the variable that the researcher can manipulate or change	Independent Variable	69
8584008974	This is the group that does not receive the treatment	Control Group	70
8584040996	Having the tendency to believe that others behave based on internal characteristics, and you personally behave based on external factors	Fundamental Attribution Error	71
8584073090	The idea that successes where due to internal hard work, and failures are due to external uncontrollable factors	Self Serving Bias	72
8584073091	A defense mechanism where a person "puts their feelings onto someone/thing else"	Projection	73
8584124710	A category-- for either how the brain organizes information or a group of people	Schema	74
8584124711	An experiment where only the researcher knows who has the treatment and who is the control group	Single-Blind Experiment	75
8584124717	Making sure that every variable in an experiment is accounted for and very specifically described-- so much so that the experiment can be replicated	Operational Definition	76
8584124465	A category-- for either how the brain organizes information or a group of people	Schema	77
8584100655	A category-- for either how the brain organizes information or a group of people	Schema	78