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AP Psychology

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1. Deals with the extent to which heredity and the environment each influence behavior






2. Primary area for processing visual information






3. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.






4. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.






5. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance






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






7. Transparent covering of the eye






8. The brain and spinal cord






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






10. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it






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






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






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






14. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse






15. Top of the spinal column






16. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.






17. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement






18. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'






19. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood






20. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit






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






22. Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation - they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.






23. False beliefs that are inconsistent with reality but are held in spite of evidence that disproves them.






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






25. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.






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






27. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways






28. 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






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






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






31. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics






32. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties






33. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students






34. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in






35. The extent to which scores differ from one another






36. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion






37. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior






38. 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.






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






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






41. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer






42. The first person to study memory scientifically and systematically; used nonsense syllables and recorded how many times he had to study a list to remember it well






43. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.






44. 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.






45. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.






46. A basic unit of meaning in a language.






47. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons






48. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy






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






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







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