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AP Psychology

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1. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed






2. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion






3. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons






4. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth






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






6. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.






7. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response






8. The evaluation of the significance of a situation or event as it relates to a person's well-being






9. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.






10. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. 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 -






16. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism






17. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.






18. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles






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






20. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.






21. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent






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






23. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one






24. 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.






25. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field






26. Top of the spinal column






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






28. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input






29. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks






30. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they believe they are so special and unique that other people cannot understand them and risky behaviors will not harm them






31. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body






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






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






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






35. 17th century English philosopher. Wrote that the mind was a 'blank slate' or 'tabula rasa'; that is - people are born without innate ideas. We are completely shaped by our environment .






36. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress






37. An environmental stimulus that affects an organism in physically or psychologically injurious ways - usually producing anxiety - tension - and physiological arousal






38. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe






39. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial






40. 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






41. 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.






42. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life






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






44. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.






45. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register






46. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes






47. Areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions - rather - they are involved in higher mental processes such as thinking - planning - and communicating






48. The sense of hearing






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






50. 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