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AP Psychology

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1. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants






2. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood






3. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent






4. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series






5. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research






6. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms






7. In Piaget's view - a specific mental structure; an organized way of interacting with the environment and experiencing it- a generalization a child makes based on comparable occurences of various actins - usally physical - motor actions






8. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure






9. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.






10. 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






11. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks






12. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)






13. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology






14. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.






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






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






17. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s






18. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur






19. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.






20. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging






21. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.






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






23. Neurotransmitter that affects sleep - arousal - mood - appetite; lack of it is linked with depression






24. Humanistic psychology; Contributions: founded client-centered therapy - theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth - unconditional positive regard -






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






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






27. 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






28. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response






29. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies






30. Able to see objects at a distance clearly but having trouble seeing things up close; farsighted






31. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met






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






33. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait






34. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched






35. The situation that occurs when the drug becomes part of the body's functioning and produces withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued






36. Perception below the threshold of awareness.






37. Prejudice against the elderly and the resulting discrimination against them






38. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh






39. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction






40. Biologist; developed theory of evolution; transmutation of species - natural selection - evolution by common descent; 'The Origin of Species' catalogs his voyage on The Beagle






41. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.






42. The study of the lifelong - often age-related - processes of change in the physical - cognitive - moral - emotional - and social domains of functioning; such changes are rooted in biological mechanisms that are genetically controlled - as well as in






43. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held






44. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.






45. Carries impulses from the eye to the brain






46. Study of the brain and nervous system; overlaps with psychobiology






47. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict






48. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'






49. Theory that holds that an observer's perception depends not only on the intensity of a stimulus but also on the observer's motivation - the criteria he or she sets for determining that a signal is present - and on the background noise.






50. Process by which a conditioned response becomes associated with a stimulus that is similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus