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AP Psychology

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1. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings






2. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.






3. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.






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






5. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age






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






7. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.






8. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age






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






10. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)






11. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing






12. A need or want that causes someone to act






13. Largest - most complicated - and most advanced of the three divisions of the brain; comprises the thalamus - hypothalamus - limbic system - basal ganglia - corpus callosum - and cortex






14. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior






15. Process by which a conditioned response becomes associated with a stimulus that is similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus






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






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






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






19. The tendency for one characteristic of an individual to influence a tester's evaluation of other characteristics






20. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never






21. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors






22. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation






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






24. 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






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






26. Neurotransmitter that inhibits firing of neurons; linked with Huntington's disease






27. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place






28. 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






29. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.






30. 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






31. Released by thyroid; hormone that regulates the body's metabolism; OVERACTIVE-over-excitability - insomnia - reduced attention span - fatigue - snap decisions - reduced concentration (hyperthyroidism); UNDERACTIVE-desire to sleep - constantly tired -






32. Depth cues that are based on one eye






33. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.






34. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual






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






36. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands






37. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.






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






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






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






41. 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






42. The depth and richness of a hue determined by determined by the homogeneity of the wavelengths contained in the reflected light; also known as purity.






43. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.






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






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






46. Motivation; believed that gastric activity as in empty stomach - was the sole basis for hunger; did research that inserted balloons in stomachs






47. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next






48. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia






49. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all






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