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AP Psychology

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1. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age






2. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score






3. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.






4. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer






5. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.






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






7. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse






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






9. Growth in the ability to tell right from wrong - control impulses - and act ethically






10. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands






11. Emotional intelligence






12. Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of - and desire to avoid - situations in which the person might be exposed to scrutiny by others and might behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way.






13. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age






14. Small area of retina where image is focused






15. 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






16. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data






17. The inability to perceive different hues.






18. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information






19. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.






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






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






22. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall






23. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time






24. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.






25. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.






26. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.






27. Freud's first stage of personality development - from birth to about age 2 - during which the instincts of infants are focused on the mouth as the primary pleasure center.






28. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance






29. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment






30. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met






31. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform






32. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.






33. Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people - ideas - or objects that are based on a person's past experiences - shape his or her future behavior - and are evaluative in nature.






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






35. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects






36. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal






37. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior






38. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings






39. Psychoanalytic technique in which a person is asked to report to the therapist his or her thoughts and feelings as they occur - regardless of how trivial - illogical - or objectionable their content may appear.






40. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur






41. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)






42. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.






43. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions






44. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward






45. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'






46. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically






47. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons






48. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ






49. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data






50. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain