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AP Psychology

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1. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality






2. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)






3. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment






4. 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






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






6. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep






7. The extent to which scores differ from one another






8. Colored part of the eye that regulates size of pupil






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






10. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma






11. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need






12. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.






13. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm






14. 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






15. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment






16. 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.






17. Studies psychological development across the lifespan






18. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters






19. Psychoanalytic technique in which a person is asked to report to the therapist his or her thoughts and feelings as they occur - regardless of how trivial - illogical - or objectionable their content may appear.






20. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development






21. The brain and spinal cord






22. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait






23. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe






24. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message






25. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.






26. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing






27. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning






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






29. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)






30. Cognition and memory; studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony






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






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






33. The highness or lowness of a sound






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






35. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved






36. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data






37. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'






38. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data






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






40. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.






41. 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






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






43. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles






44. Depth cues that are based on two eyes






45. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic






46. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream






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






48. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.






49. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.






50. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed