AP Psychology Vocab Review

Name a depressant

When two objects are the same size, the one that casts smaller image on retina is farther away

Miracle on 34th Street is made about which department store?

If I give you a sticker every time you get an A, this is an example of

What are frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing actions or watching others perform

The large band of neural fibers that connects the two sides of the brain

Which schedule reinforces after a changing amount of time.

Type of learning in which a behavior is strengthened when followed by reinforcer

What is a testable prediction often implied by a theory

Stage of sleep when dreams occur

Which Christmas song contains the lyric “Everyone dancing merrily in the new old-fashioned way?”

Name a hallucinogen

The brain and spinal chord

What is the master gland?

Which schedule reinforces after a set number of times?

Which neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory

In Pavlov's studies, the thing that naturally triggers a response

The "I knew it all along" phenomenon is also called

The min. stilumation needed to detect a stimulus 50% of time

What is a computed measure of how much scores vary around a mean score?

Which is my coffee order?

Theory of color vision that has three colors, red and green and blue

The base of the brainstem that controls heartbeat and breathing

Contains rods and cones

The difficulty in taking on another's point of view

What movie is this from?

A grouping that fairly represents the population for a study

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

Which schedule reinforces after a changing number of times?

The tendency to distribute study or practice to remember more is

In Home Alone, where are the McCallisters going on vacation when they leave Kevin behind?

In the movie Elf, what was the first rule of The Code of Elves?

What is hearing loss as a result of damange to the mechanical system?

The central point of focus of the eye

Part of the brain that controls language expression

If one object partially blocks another this is a cue to depth

The adjustible opening at the center of the eye

Sleep disorder when people can't stay awake

The developing human organism from 9 weeks to birth

Processing of Memory of facts and experiences is located in the

physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking

An organized whole

The switchboard is

an emotional tie to another person

What strengthens a behavior by removing an aversive?

What is the number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time

Which neurotransmitter influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion

Three of Santa’s reindeer’s names begin with the letter “D.” What are those names?

If I can't think to use my sweatshirt as a pillow I suffer from

Nearby objects reflect more light to our eyes so dimmer ones seem farther away

The controvery over environment vs genetics is known as

What stage of sleep do night terrors usually fall

What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes

What is the extension of a neuron that sends messages ending in branching termincal fibers

What is a nother word for hearing?

an optimal period shortly after birth when exposure to certain stumli is impt

"I can't remember my new locker combo because last year's combo gets in the way"

Condition where far away objects are seen clearer than near ones

Which has a capacity of 7 +- 2

An observation technique where one person is studied in depth

Diminished sensitivty as a result of constant stimulation

Facial Hair and deepened voice are

The outcome factor

Cues of two eyes

Which neurotransmitter affects mood, hunger, sleep and arousal

in Piaget's theory, the stage from birth to about 2 years of age

When we say that one sense might influence another we mean

What is the activation of particular associations in memory

The organizatio of a field into objects and their surroundings

What is the school of PSY that used introspection to explore the structures of the mind?

The most frequently occuring scores in a distribution

What is the only type of psy professional who can prescribe meds

Large, slow brain waves of deep sleep

What is often called the little brain?

A rule of thumb is also called

The focusing of one's conscious attention on a particular stiumlus

Adapting one's current understanding to add new information

What is a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience

Rules for the ordering of sentences

A perceived nonexistent correlation is also called

Getting money is an exammple of

The remembered storyline of a dream

Which perspective focuses on people being good at heart?

What is the order of memory three box model

Putting people in the experimental or control group is called

decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation

Analysis that begins at the basic sensory receptors and then goes to brain

Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior

A neural impulse

When your prexisting beliefs distort logical thinking about a situation

Division of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body, conserving its energy

Processing of several aspects of a stimulus simultanesously

Portion of the brain the receives auditory input and is located above the temples

Which neurotransmitter helps control alertness and arousal

Tendency to remember best the last and first things in a list

What is it called when we define a research variable so others can repeat a study?

When the researcher and subject don't know if they received treatement it's called

The learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and other stimuli

Which is the strongest type of encoding