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AP Psychology

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1. The biologically based categories of male and female






2. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior






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






4. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable






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






6. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow






7. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion






8. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants






9. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe






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






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






12. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.






13. Learning; systematic desensitization






14. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene






15. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.






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






17. 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






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






19. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.






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






21. In Roger's theory of personality - the perception an individual has of himself or herself and of his or her relationships to other people and to various aspects of life.






22. Sense of smell






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






24. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register






25. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion






26. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.






27. 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






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






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






30. A person's sense of being male or female






31. The biochemical processes that make it easier for the neuron to respond again when it has been stimulated






32. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will






33. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.






34. 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.






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






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






37. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons






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






39. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.






40. 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






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






42. Motivation; believed that gastric activity as in empty stomach - was the sole basis for hunger; did research that inserted balloons in stomachs






43. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed






44. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life






45. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human






46. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language






47. The time in to development of an organism when it is especially sensitive to certain environmental influences; outside of that period the same influences will have far less effect






48. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory






49. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.






50. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese