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AP Psychology

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1. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.






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






3. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival






4. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both






5. Shift in electrical charge in a tiny area of the neuron (temporary); transmits a long cell membranes leaving neuron and polarized state; needs higher than normal threshold of excitation to fire






6. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls






7. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal






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






9. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body






10. Noradrenaline; chemical which is excitatory - similar to adrenaline - and affects arousal and memory; raises blood pressure by causing blood vessels to become constricted - but also carried by bloodstream to the anterior pituitary which relaxes ACTH






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






12. A person's experiences in the environment






13. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior






14. Piaget's thrid stage of cognitive development (lasting from approximately age 6 or 7 to age 11 or 12) - during which the child develops the ability to understand constant factors in the environment - rules - and higher-order symbolic systems






15. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.






16. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia

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17. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.






18. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected






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






20. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed






21. Colored part of the eye that regulates size of pupil






22. An unconscious way of reducing anxiety by distorting perceptions of reality.






23. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress






24. The arithmetic average of a set of scores






25. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary






26. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine






27. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.






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






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






30. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards






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






32. A basic unit of meaning in a language.






33. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.






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






35. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma






36. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment






37. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.






38. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making






39. 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'






40. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -






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






42. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.






43. A mass of tissue that is attached to the wall f the uterus and connected to the developing fetus by the umbilical cord; it supplies nutrients and eliminates waste products






44. According to Piaget - the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences






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






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






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






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






49. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve






50. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.