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AP Psychology

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1. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion

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2. Adrenaline; activates a sympathetic nervous system by making the heart beat faster - stopping digestion - enlarging pupils - sending sugar into the bloodstream - preparing a blood clot faster






3. A basic unit of meaning in a language.






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






5. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.






6. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)






7. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system






8. A fertilized egg






9. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.






10. The suppression of one bit of information by another






11. A group of psychological disorders characterized by a lack of reality testing and by deterioration of social and intellectual functioning and personality beginning before age 45 and lasting at least 6 months






12. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics






13. 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






14. Does research on how people function best with machines






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






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






17. Theorist who both aided in the development of the trichromatic theory of color perception and Place theory of pitch perception.






18. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.






19. The extent to which scores differ from one another






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






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






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






23. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship






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






25. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior






26. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior






27. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond






28. An insight therapy - developed be Carl Rogers - that seeks to help people evaluate the world and themselves from their own perspective by providing them with a nondirective environment and unconditional positive regard; also known as person-centered






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






30. The biologically based categories of male and female






31. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.






32. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.






33. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life






34. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill






35. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross






36. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data






37. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.






38. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.






39. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.






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






41. 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






42. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making






43. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it






44. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness






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






46. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.






47. 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






48. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates






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






50. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings