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AP Psychology

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1. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups






2. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli






3. When a neuron is in polarization; more negative ions are inside the neuron cell membrane with a positive ions on the outside - causing a small electrical charge; release of this charge generates a neuron's impulse (signal/message)






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






5. 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






6. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.






7. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.






8. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services






9. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.






10. An individual's genetic make-up






11. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.






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






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






14. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions






15. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message






16. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one






17. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat






18. Fixed - overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.






19. 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.






20. The highness or lowness of a sound






21. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell






22. 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).






23. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform






24. Experience of the difference threshold






25. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time






26. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'






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






28. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories






29. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior






30. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy






31. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events






32. The sense of hearing






33. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness






34. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.






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






36. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged






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






38. 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






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






40. The arithmetic average of a set of scores






41. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning






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






43. The process by which the location of sound is determined






44. Automatic behavior that occurs involuntarily in response to a stimulus and without prior learning and usually shows little variability from instance to instance






45. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another






46. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood






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






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






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






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