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AP Psychology

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1. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature






2. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors






3. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world






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






5. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light






6. 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






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






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






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






10. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression






11. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children






12. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans






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






14. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts






15. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.






16. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.






17. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next






18. Graphical record of brain-wave activity obtained through electrodes placed on the scalp and forehead






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






20. Holds information for processing; fragile; also called short term memory or working memory






21. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory






22. The view that knowledge should be acquired through observation and often an experiment






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






24. Period of development from conception until birth






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






26. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment






27. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.






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






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






30. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.






31. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself






32. Intelligence and learning - self-fulfilling prophecy; Study Basics: Researchers misled teachers into believing that certain students had higher IQs. Teachers changed own behaviors and effectively raised the IQ of the randomly chosen students






33. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness






34. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.






35. 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






36. The level of consciousness devoted to processes completely unavailable to conscious awareness (e.g. - fingernails growing)






37. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.






38. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin






39. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors






40. A therapy that is based on the application of learning principles to human behavior and that focuses on changing overt behaviors rather than on understanding subjective feelings - unconscious processes - or motivations; also known as behavior modific






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






42. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole






43. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness






44. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature






45. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data






46. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving






47. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus






48. Small area of retina where image is focused






49. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender






50. A basic unit of meaning in a language.