AP Psych Practice Test Questions
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carleigh on May 10, 2010
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Garden Grove High School AP Psychology, Mrs. Bonham's AP Psych
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ego | A child's early experience in coping with external demands leads to the development of ______. |
| May function reasonably well in society. | People with personality disorders... |
| Obsessions | Persistent repetitive thoughts |
| Behaviorism | Emphasizes the dominance of heredity over environment. |
| Dissociative Disorder | Multiple personality is a type of... |
| Myelin Sheath | Increases the velocity of conduction of the action potential along the axon |
| Accomodation | Modifying schema to account for new info, change in curvature of the lens that enables the eye to focus on objects at various distances |
| Benjamin Whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis | Different languages predispose those individuals who speak to them to think about the world in different ways |
| Blind Spot | The place in the retina where the optic nerve exits to the brain is called the... |
| metacognition | Thinking about thinking |
| Law of Effect | Thorndike argued that responses leading to rewards are more likely to be repeated, responses leading to punishments are less likely to be repeated. |
| Causation | Correlation does not equal ____. |
| Clinical Disorders | Axis I |
| Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation | Axis II |
| General Medical Condition | Axis III |
| Psychosocial & Environmental Factors | Axis IV |
| Global Assessment of Functioning | Axis V |
| Histronic Personality Disorder | A person acts very dramatic and emotional to get attention |
| Schizoids | People who are withdrawn and are not bothered by their lack of social relationships. They often have flat or inapproprate emotional responses. |
| General Anxiety Disorder | a recurring state of anxiety, fear, restlessness, and tenseness |
| Dysthymic Disorder | a mood disorder involving a pattern of comparatively mild depression that lasts for at least two years |
| Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation | Direct stimulation of the cerebral cortex induced by magnetic fields generated outside the skull |
| Positive Symptoms | symptoms of schizophrenia involving behavioral excesses, such as hallucinations and delusions. |
| Negative Symptoms | Schizophrenic symptoms that involve behavioral deficits, such as flattened emotions, social withdrawal, apathy, impaired attention, and poverty of speech. |
| Paranoid Schizophrenia | A type of schizophrenia that is dominated by delusions of persecution along with delusions of grandeur. |
| Dissocial Personality Disorder | complete lack of interest in social obligations |
| Borderline Personality Disorder | A personality disorder characterized by instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotions, and marked impulsivity |
| Phallic Stage | children are obssessed with genitals, oedipus/electra complex is formed |
| endomorph | fat, round, easy going, sociable |
| ectomorph | Thin, has trouble gaining weight |
| treatment of schizophrenia | Antipsychotic drugs |
| Neuroleptics | Antipsychotic drugs (i.e. chlorpromazine, clozapine, thorazine, and haldol) |
| Dissociative Fugue | disorder in which one travels away from home and is unable to remember details of his past, including often his identity |
| Biopsychosocial Perspective | assumes that biological, sociocultural, and psychological factors combine and interact to produce psychological disorders |
| Mood Disorder | a disorder in which a person undergoes changes in mood that seem inappropriate or extreme |
| Major Depressive Disorder | most common type of depressive disorder, characterized by periods of downcast mood, feelings of worthlessness, and loss of interest in pleasurable activities |
| Depersonalization | feelings of detachment from one's mental processes or body |
| Dissociative Identity | a dissociative disorder in which a person appears to have more than one identity, each of which behaves in a different way |
| Dissociative Amnesia | Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information, usually after extreme stress/trauma |
| Lewin | Father of Social Psychology, Tested 3 styles of teaching a class- authoritative, permissive, and authoritarian. (authoritative was most effective) |
| Rabin | focused on positive interpretations of stressful situations |
| Acetylcholine | a neurotransmitter that enables learning and memory and also triggers muscle contraction (not enough = alzheimers) |
| Dopamine | too much = schizophrenia, too little = Parkinson's disease |
| GABA | major inhibitory neurotransmitter |
| Glutamate | A major excitatory neurotransmitter; involved in memory. Too much = migraines |
| Serotonin | Comes from the sun, makes you happy |
| Norepinephrine | helps control alertness and arousal, not enough = ADHD |
| TAT | look at the picture, tell me a story |
| Rorschach | inkblot test |
| william james | founder of functionalism; published first psychology textbook |
| medical model | the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured |
| MMPI | the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally used to identify emotional disorders, this test is now used for many other screening puposes |
| person centered therapy | The therapeutic technique based on humanistic theory which is non-directive and empathic. |
| Retina | In vision, transduction occurs within the ____. |
| Lateral Hypothalamus | Stimulated = Hungry, Lesioned/Destroyed = Not Hungry |
| Ventromedial Hypothalamus | Stimulated = Not Hungry, Lesioned/Destroyed = Hungry |
| Latent Learning | Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it. |
| Piaget's Stages | sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operational stage, formal operations |
| Morpheme | in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning |
| Phoneme | in a spoken language, the smallest distinctive sound unit |
| Syntax | word order |
| Retinal Disparity | Binocular cue for depth perception |
| cones | people who are color blind have issues with _____. |
| Gate Control Theory | pain is modulated by a spinal gate that determines whether a pain signal is allowed to go on to the brain |
| Display Rules | cross-cultural guidelines for how and when to express emotions |
| Diathesis-Stress Approach | Disorders are a result of predisposed, biological factors triggered by the environment |
| Preoperational | Children cease to exhibit egocentricism during the ______ Stage. |
| Schacter-Singer Theory of Emotion | Cognitive labels in response to physiological excitation |
| James-Lange Theory of Emotion | I'm crying, so I must be sad. |
| Canon-Bard Theory of Emotion | We feel emotions, then act upon them. |
| Stage 1 Sleep | Between asleep & awake, only a few minutes, theta waves |
| Stage 2 Sleep | Sleep spindles, 20 min. |
| Stage 3 Sleep | Transitional stage between light and deep sleep |
| Stage 4 Sleep | Deep sleep, slow delta waves, bedwetting & sleepwalking |
| REM Sleep | Vivid dreaming, increased brain activity, limited muscle activity |
| Psychopaths | Personality disorder, lack empathy |
| Organic Mental Disorders | Result from a developmental abnormality in the brain, can be temporary or permanent |
| ablation | removal or destruction of brain tissue in a surgical procedure |
| acquisition | a process in classical conditioning by which the association of a neutral stimulus with a natural stimulus is first established |
| operant conditioning | a type of conditioning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher. |
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