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AP Psychology

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1. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact






2. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory






3. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait






4. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval






5. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.






6. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe






7. Behaviorism/learning; pioneer in systematic desensitization - maintained that fear could be unlearned






8. An insight therapy - developed be Carl Rogers - that seeks to help people evaluate the world and themselves from their own perspective by providing them with a nondirective environment and unconditional positive regard; also known as person-centered






9. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation






10. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle






11. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources






12. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions






13. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






14. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response






15. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.






16. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.






17. Observed group differences based on the era when people were born and grew up - exposing them to particular experiences that may affect the results of cross-sectional studies






18. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility






19. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.






20. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.






21. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment






22. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it






23. Developed one of the first projective tests - the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story - the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary






24. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation






25. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response






26. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body






27. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information






28. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.






29. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.






30. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.






31. Transparent covering of the eye






32. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes






33. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume






34. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it






35. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.






36. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords






37. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior






38. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell






39. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world






40. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes






41. Largest - most complicated - and most advanced of the three divisions of the brain; comprises the thalamus - hypothalamus - limbic system - basal ganglia - corpus callosum - and cortex






42. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands






43. A period after firing when a neuron is returning to its normal polarize state and will only fire again if the incoming message open parentheses impulse) is stronger than usual; returning to arresting state






44. Memory a person is not aware of possessing






45. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.






46. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred






47. In Piaget's view - a specific mental structure; an organized way of interacting with the environment and experiencing it- a generalization a child makes based on comparable occurences of various actins - usally physical - motor actions






48. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.






49. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals






50. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)