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AP Psychology

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1. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur






2. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.






3. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings






4. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.






5. The sense of hearing






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






7. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.






8. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes






9. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions






10. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment






11. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.






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






13. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior






14. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.






15. Maintenance of a constant state of inner stability or balance






16. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender






17. Observed group differences based on the era when people were born and grew up - exposing them to particular experiences that may affect the results of cross-sectional studies






18. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.






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






20. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience






21. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred






22. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time






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






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






25. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8






26. 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.






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






28. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.






29. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain






30. A process through which people receive information about the status of a physical system and use this feedback information to learn to control the activity of that system






31. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature






32. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again






33. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons






34. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.






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






36. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort






37. Sharpness of vision






38. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.






39. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time






40. The spread between the highest and the lowest scores in a distribution






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






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






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






44. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature






45. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will






46. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data






47. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events






48. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)






49. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.






50. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum