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AP Psychology

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1. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation






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






3. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.






4. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement






5. In emerging Theo psychology that focuses on positive experiences; includes subjective well-being - self-determination - the relationship between positive emotions and physical health - and the factors that allow individuals - communities - and societ






6. Commonly occurring behavior can reinforce a less frequent behavior






7. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology






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






9. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.






10. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords






11. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time






12. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society






13. Transparent covering of the eye






14. A person's experiences in the environment






15. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad






16. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior






17. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response






18. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat






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






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. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve






22. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically






23. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior






24. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.






25. Sense of taste






26. Humanistic psychology; Contributions: founded client-centered therapy - theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth - unconditional positive regard -






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






28. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.






29. 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






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






31. 'Wernicke's area'; discovered area of left temporal lobe that involved language understanding: person damaged in this area uses correct words but they do not make sense






32. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.






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






34. 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.






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






36. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi






37. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal






38. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life






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






40. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes






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






42. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.






43. An environmental stimulus that affects an organism in physically or psychologically injurious ways - usually producing anxiety - tension - and physiological arousal






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






45. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls






46. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles






47. 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






48. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.






49. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume






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