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AP Psychology

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1. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed






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






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






4. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions






5. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.






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






7. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.






8. Commonly occurring behavior can reinforce a less frequent behavior






9. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth






10. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.






11. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.






12. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain






13. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia






14. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat






15. 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






16. Experience of the difference threshold






17. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching






18. Perception below the threshold of awareness.






19. 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






20. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons






21. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain






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






23. A test score that has not been transformed or converted in any way






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






25. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.






26. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.






27. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)






28. The arithmetic average of a set of scores






29. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes






30. 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






31. The second level of the three organizational structures of the brain that receives signals from other parts of the brain or spinal cord and either relays the information to other parts of the brain or causes the body to act immediately; involved in m






32. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)






33. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.






34. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.






35. Areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions - rather - they are involved in higher mental processes such as thinking - planning - and communicating






36. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.






37. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism






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






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






40. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior






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






42. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance






43. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.






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






45. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction






46. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.






47. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.






48. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.






49. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.






50. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands