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AP Psychology

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1. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world






2. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources






3. Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.






4. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.






5. Period of development from conception until birth






6. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.






7. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success






8. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.






9. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.






10. Conscious memory that a person is aware of






11. 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






12. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time






13. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area






14. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems






15. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law






16. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal






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






18. 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






19. 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.






20. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place






21. A descriptive research method in which researchers study behavior in its natural context.






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






23. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes






24. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI






25. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments






26. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.






27. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need






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






29. Emotional intelligence






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






31. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles






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






33. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.






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






35. Discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell






36. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility






37. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle






38. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory






39. A basic unit of meaning in a language.






40. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis






41. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.






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






43. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival






44. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.






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






46. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior






47. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed






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






49. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'






50. Perception below the threshold of awareness.