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AP Psychology

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1. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.






2. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life






3. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable






4. Maintenance of a constant state of inner stability or balance






5. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.






6. Creates a computerized image using x-rays passed through the brain






7. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.






8. Primary area for processing visual information






9. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm






10. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s






11. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher






12. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants






13. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts






14. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.






15. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill






16. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.






17. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about






18. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues






19. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next






20. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.






21. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.






22. First menstrual period






23. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response






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






25. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.






26. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory






27. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.






28. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period






29. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.






30. Experience of the difference threshold






31. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology






32. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.






33. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus






34. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth






35. The cessation of the ability to reproduce






36. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior






37. A donut ring-shaped of loosely connected structures located in the forebrain between the central core and cerebral hemispheres; consists of: septum - cingulate gyrus - endowments - hypothalamus - and to campus - and amygdala; associated with emotions






38. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study






39. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed






40. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance






41. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time






42. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders






43. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.






44. Establish the relationship between two variables






45. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ on an important dimension






46. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.






47. Learning; systematic desensitization






48. The extent to which scores differ from one another






49. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.






50. Twins from a single fertilized egg (zygote) with the same genetic makeup; also called monozygotic (MZ) twins