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AP Psychology

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1. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.






2. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat






3. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.






4. 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






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






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






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






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






9. Shift in electrical charge in a tiny area of the neuron (temporary); transmits a long cell membranes leaving neuron and polarized state; needs higher than normal threshold of excitation to fire






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






11. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve






12. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.






13. The process by which the probability of an organism's emitting a response is reduced when reinforcement no longer follows the response






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






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






16. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)






17. 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.






18. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth






19. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people






20. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon






21. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place






22. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources






23. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.






24. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal






25. Intelligence; found that specific mental talents were highly correlated - concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled 'g' (general ability)






26. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior






27. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area






28. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal






29. 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.






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






31. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches






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






33. Conscious memory that a person is aware of






34. 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






35. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior






36. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body






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






38. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior






39. Ability of the visual perceptual system to recognize that an object remains constant in size regardless of its distance from the observer or the size of its image on the retina.






40. Process in which the sense organs' receptor cells are stimulated and relay initial information to higher brain centers for further processing.






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






42. Personality assessment; created the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) with Christina Morgan - stated that the need to achieve varied in strength in different people and influenced their tendency to approach and evaluate their own performances






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






44. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings






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






46. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ on an important dimension






47. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.






48. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus






49. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population






50. 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