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AP Psychology

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1. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.






2. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience






3. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks






4. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches






5. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.






6. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions






7. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations






8. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal






9. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood






10. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment






11. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes






12. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood






13. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics






14. 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.






15. Pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning) - stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls - children mimicked play






16. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose






17. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane






18. 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






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






20. Pioneer in intelligence (IQ) tests - designed a test to identify slow learners in need of help-not applicable in the U.S. because it was too culture-bound (French)






21. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation






22. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law






23. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life






24. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior






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






26. 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.






27. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion

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28. 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






29. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit






30. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin






31. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8






32. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain






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






34. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.






35. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech

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36. 17th century English philosopher. Wrote that the mind was a 'blank slate' or 'tabula rasa'; that is - people are born without innate ideas. We are completely shaped by our environment .






37. An observable action






38. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.






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






40. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI






41. Ability of the visual perceptual system to recognize that an object remains constant in size regardless of its distance from the observer or the size of its image on the retina.






42. The extent to which scores differ from one another






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






44. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.






45. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant






46. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.






47. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes






48. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving






49. Intelligence and learning - self-fulfilling prophecy; Study Basics: Researchers misled teachers into believing that certain students had higher IQs. Teachers changed own behaviors and effectively raised the IQ of the randomly chosen students






50. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort