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AP Psychology Test - States of consciousness and other units

1. ______________ That name is given to psychoactive drugs that induce alteration in consciousness including a sense of timeliness and feelings of depersonalization?

2. ______________ The name given to the process in which an individual experiences sensations in on sensory modality that are characteristic of another.

3. ______________ Hallucinogen derived from a fungus that grows on a rye grain; accidently ingested by Albert Hoffmann in 1943.

4. ______________ A chemical extracted from the coca leaf that is used to induce mental alertness and euphoria.

5. ______________ One of the opiates that is prized for the ability to relieve pain and induce euphoria.

6. ______________ An addictive stimulant derived from tobacco that is used to regulate physical and mental arousal.

7. ______________ A Classification of psychoactive drugs that increase central nervous system activity.

8. ______________ The most widely abused addictive drug in the world; commonly found in beverages and used to reduce social inhibitions.

9. ______________ A classification of psychoactive drugs that inhibit activity in the central nervous system.

10. ______________ Chemicals that induce changes in mood, thinking, perception, and behavior by affecting neuronal activity in the brain.

11. ______________ In Atlanta ,GA, (1886) john Pemberton concocted a combination of caffeine, cocaine, sugar, and carbonated sugar water, and called it what?

12. ______________ The name given to a depressant used to induce sleep or anesthesia; characterized by a sense of the loss of pain.

13. ______________ A stimulant found in a wide variety of products including coffee, tea, soft drinks, and stimulant tablets (used to increase mental alertness.

14. ______________ the name given to the unconscious perception of stimuli that are too weak to exceed the absolute threshold for detection?

15. ______________ A decrease in psychological responsiveness to a drug and increasingly higher doses to achieve the desired effect?

16. ______________ The intense desire to achieve the intoxicated state induced by drugs.

17. ______________ The name under which major tranquilizers is classified.

18. ______________ One of the reasons humans take drugs.

19. ______________ A barbiturate used in general anesthetic in surgery

20. ______________ Ancient Samarians called this psychoactive drug the fruit of the plant of joy.

21. ______________ The street name for amphetamine.

22. ______________ The chemical found in magic mushrooms that cause psychedelic alterations in consciousness.

23. ______________ The drug that is sometimes called Saint Anthony’s Fire.

24. ______________ A hallucinogen derived from the hemp plant and ingested in the form of marijuana or hashish.

25. ______________ The street name for lysergic acid

26. ______________ A state in which the mind is split into two or more independent streams of consciousness.

27. ______________ Earnest Hilgard’s term for the part of the hypnotized person’s consciousness that is not under the hypnotist’s control.

28. ______________ The theory that hypnosis induces a dissociate state of consciousness; the most widely accepted theory of hypnosis today

29. ______________ Suggestions direction subjects to carry out particular behaviors after leaving the hypnotic state.

30. ______________ The name given to the hypnotic enhancement of recall.

31. ______________ An induced state of consciousness in which one person responds to the suggestions by another; alterations in perception, thinking and behavior.

32. ______________ The theory that dreams are the by-product of the mind’s attempt to make sense of the physiological changes generated by the PONS during REM sleep.

33. ______________ Sigmund Freud’s term for the verbally reported dream?

34. ______________ The name given to the ability to understand that you are dreaming and change the direction of the dream.

35. ______________ Sigmund Freud’s term for the true, though disguised, meaning of a dream.

36. ______________ Name given to a frightening NREM experience common in childhood in which the subject speaks incoherently then falls back to sleep.

37. ______________ A story like sequence of visual images occurring during REM sleep.

38. ______________ The name given to frightening REM dreams.

39. ______________ The name given to chronic difficulty in either falling asleep of staying asleep.

40. ______________ A condition in which an awake person suffers from repeated, sudden, and irresistible REM sleep attacks.

41. ______________ One of the three theories as to the function of sleep.

42. ______________ A condition in which a person who is asleep, awakes repeatedly in order to breathe.

43. ______________ The shortening of the sleep wake cycle, as occurs when traveling from West to East.

44. ______________ The scientific name given to sleep walking.

45. ______________ The stage of sleep not associated with rapid eye movement and marked by relatively little dreaming.

46. ______________ Lengthening the sleep-wake cycle, as occurs when traveling from East to West.

47. ______________ The name given to the High frequency brain waves which mark an alert mental state.

48. ______________ A variation of Transcendental Meditation in which the subject behaves as he/she did as a child.

49. ______________ A procedure that uses mental exercise to achieve highly focused state of consciousness.

50. ______________ A hypnotic state in which the individual apparently behaves as he did as a child.

51. ______________ The theory that illnesses were caused by imbalances in a form of energy called animal magnetism.

52. ______________ One of the perpetual evidences that hypnosis has validity.

53. ______________ One of the cognitive evidences that hypnosis has validity

54. ______________ Lower frequency brain waves characterized by a relaxed introspective mental state.

55. ______________ Twenty-four hour cycles of psychological and physiological changes, most notably the sleep-wake cycle.

56. ______________ The process by which an individual focuses awareness on certain contents of consciousness while ignoring others.

57. ______________ An endocrine gland that secrets a hormone that has a general tranquilizing effect.

58. ______________ An endocrine hormone whose secretions varies with light levels; decreasing in daylight and increasing in darkness

59. ______________ A stage of consciousness that involves shifting attention from external stimuli to self generated thoughts and images.

60. ______________ The awareness of one’s own mental activity, including thoughts, feelings and behaviors.

61. ______________ The field that applies psychological principles to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological disorders.

62. ______________ The field that studies the relationship between physiological and psychological processes.

63. ______________ The field of psychology that is primarily concerned with laboratory research on basic psychological processes including perception, learning, motivation, and emotion.

64. ______________ Psychological research aimed at improving the quality of life and solving practical problems.

65. ______________ The psychological perspective that favors the study of how the mind organizes perceptions, processes, information, and interprets experiences.

66. ______________ The psychological viewpoint that stresses the importance of the unconscious mind in human behavior.

67. ______________ The psychological perspective that holds that the proper subject matter of psychology in the individual’s subjective experience in the real world.

68. ______________ A form of Humanistic Psychology that emphasizes subjective mental experience and free will.

70. ______________ The psychological perspective that descended from the works of Sigmund Freud; it places less emphasis on biological motives and more on interpersonal perspectives.

71. ______________ A model that determines the appropriate goals, methods, and subject matter of a science.

72. ______________ The physiological perspective that descended from the work of john B. Watson: the importance of studying environmental influences on behavior.

74. ______________ The Freudian assumption that all behaviors are influenced by unconscious motives.

74. ______________ The father of psychology, he performed the first laboratory controlled psychological experiment.

75. ______________ An early school of psychology that claimed that we perceive and think about wholes rather than simply about combinations of separate elements.

76. ______________ The apparent motion caused by presentation of different stimuli in rapid succession.

77. ______________ The early school of psychology that studied how the conscious mind helps the individual adapt to the environment.

78. ______________ The early school of psychology that sought to identify components of the conscious mind.

79. ______________ A form of learning in which a behavior becomes more or less probable, depending on its consequences.

80. ______________ The principal that a more probable behavior can be used as a reinforcer for a less probable one.

81. ______________ The major figure in the Behavior perspective of behavior.

82. ______________ The man who discovered the principal of Instrumental conditioning

83. ______________ The study of the relationship between the physical characteristics of stimuli and the conscious psychological experience the produce.

84. ______________ The philosophical position the true knowledge comes through the senses.

85. ______________ The philosophical position that true knowledge comes through correct reasoning.

86. _______________ An aversive event that decreases the behavior that it follows.

87. _______________ The school of psychology that reflected the influence of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution; the role of inherited characteristics in adaption to the environment.

88. _______________ The major figure in the American School of Functionalism.

89. _______________ Along with Wilhelm Wundt he founded the school of Structuralism.

90. _______________ The area of the left frontal lobe that directs the muscle movements involved in speech.

91. _______________ A nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system.

92. _______________ The name given to a type of learning in which desired behavior is strengthened if followed by positive reinforcement.

93. _______________ The name given to the weakening of a conditioned response.

94. _______________ The initial stage of learning during which a response is established and gradually strengthened.

95. _______________ Another name for Insight Learning.

96. _______________ A research method in which highly trained subjects report the contents of their conscious mental experience.

97. _______________ The school of psychology in which Analytical introspection was used.

98. _______________ Reinforcing a response only part of the time.

99. _______________ The reappearance of a conditioned response after extinction has taken place.

100. _______________ The name given to the acceptance of several aspects of different perspectives of psychology; an important modern point of view.

101. _______________ He was the first to prove that behavior can be conditioned.

102. _________________A source of knowledge based on the assumption that knowledge comes from the objective systematic observation and measurement of particular variables and the events they offer.

age regression

ah ha principle

alpha waves

amphetamines

attention

activation-synthesis theory

acquisition

analytical introspection

applied research

antipsychotic drugs

barbiturates

beta-waves

biopsychology

behavioral perspective

Broca’s area

caffeine

cannabis sativa

circadian rhythms

cocaine

coca cola

clinical psychology

consciousness

cognitive perspective

daydreaming

depressants

dream

dissociation

differential psychology

eclectic psychology

ethyl alcohol

experimental psychology

existential psychology

empiricism

extinction

functionalism

Gestalt psychology

hallucinogens

hormones

hidden observer

hypnosis

hypermnesia

humanistic perspective

instrumental learning

insomnia

William James

LSD

latent content

latent learning

learning

lucid dreams

lysergic acid diethylamide

melatonin

manifest content

meditation

morphine

mesmerism

narcolepsy

neodissociation

nicotine

night terrors

nightmare

neuron

NREM sleep

observational learning

operant conditioning

opium

Ivan Pavlov

psilocybin

pain relief

partial reinforcement

pineal gland

phase advance

phase delay

posthypnotic suggestion

psychic determinism

psychoactive drugs

psychoanalytic perspective

psychological dependence

Premack principle

psychophysics

punishment

primary reinforcement

rationalism

relaxation response

REM sleep

restorative

B F Skinner

spontaneous recovery

School of Psychoanalysis

sleep apnea

somnambulism

“speed”

social psychology

sodium pentothal

stimulants

synesthesia

scientific method

scientific paradigm

structuralism

subliminal perception

Edward Tichener

Edward Thorndike

Tolerance

Wilhelm Wundt

Phi phenomenon

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