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AP Psychology

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






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






3. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands






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






5. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall






6. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes






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






8. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)






9. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.






10. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing






11. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids






12. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher






13. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.






14. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.






15. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information






16. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time






17. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.






18. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions






19. Focuses on psychological factors in illness






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






21. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.






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






23. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration






24. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event






25. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics






26. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society






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






28. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands






29. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;






30. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions






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






32. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.






33. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes






34. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






35. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.






36. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation






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






38. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.






39. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time






40. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.






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






42. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.






43. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion






44. 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'






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






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






47. Graph of a frequency distribution that shows the number of instances of obtained scores - usually with the data points connect by straight lines






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






49. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.






50. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)