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AP Psychology

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1. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth






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






3. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place






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






5. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon






6. Response to the belief that the IV will have an effect - rather than the IV's actual effect - which can be a confounding variable






7. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response






8. 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






9. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.






10. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.






11. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population






12. False beliefs that are inconsistent with reality but are held in spite of evidence that disproves them.






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






14. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.






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






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






17. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome






18. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait






19. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire






20. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine






21. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks






22. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.






23. 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






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






25. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.






26. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.






27. Organ lying between the stomach and small intestine; regulates blood sugar by secreting to regulating hormones insulin and glucagon






28. A process through which people receive information about the status of a physical system and use this feedback information to learn to control the activity of that system






29. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).






30. The extent to which scores differ from one another






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






32. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all






33. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures






34. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development






35. The tendency for one characteristic of an individual to influence a tester's evaluation of other characteristics






36. The inability to perceive different hues.






37. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period






38. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms






39. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.






40. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities






41. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients






42. Inability to understand or use language






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

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44. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society






45. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success






46. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic value for an organism but that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer






47. 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






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






49. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes






50. 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.