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AP Psychology

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1. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur






2. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place






3. 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.






4. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.






5. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself






6. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts






7. 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 -






8. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data






9. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups






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






11. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall






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






13. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters






14. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp






15. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed






16. The view that knowledge should be acquired through observation and often an experiment






17. Neutral stimulus that - through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus - begins to elicit a conditioned response






18. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus






19. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience






20. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe






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






22. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure






23. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.






24. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data






25. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results






26. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results






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






28. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus






29. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.






30. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits






31. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.






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






33. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.






34. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.






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






36. 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






37. An explanation of behavior that emphasizes the entirety of life rather than individual components of behavior and focuses on human dignity - individual choice - and self-worth






38. Perception below the threshold of awareness.






39. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants






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






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






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






43. The prenatal organism from the 5th through the 49th day after conception






44. First menstrual period






45. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.






46. A branch of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body functions; it calms the body after sympathetic stimulation






47. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.






48. 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.






49. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function






50. 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