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AP Psychology

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1. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.






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






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






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






5. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma






6. A state of consciousness that occurs during sleep - usually accompanied by vivid visual - tactile - or auditory imagery.






7. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period






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






9. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform






10. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.






11. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made






12. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.






13. A person's sense of being male or female






14. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.






15. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.






16. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores






17. Depth cues that are based on two eyes






18. 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






19. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society






20. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese






21. 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






22. Memory for specific information






23. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking






24. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear






25. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans






26. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score






27. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness






28. A mass of tissue that is attached to the wall f the uterus and connected to the developing fetus by the umbilical cord; it supplies nutrients and eliminates waste products






29. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness






30. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching






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






32. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions






33. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;






34. The human need to fulfill one's potential






35. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep






36. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system






37. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -






38. Body sense of equilibrium and balance






39. The biologically based categories of male and female






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






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






42. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory






43. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions






44. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions






45. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence






46. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors






47. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism






48. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.






49. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment






50. The sense of hearing