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AP Psychology

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1. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.






2. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in






3. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose






4. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher






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






6. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates






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






8. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.






9. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings






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






11. 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.






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






13. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation






14. Pioneer in intelligence (IQ) tests - designed a test to identify slow learners in need of help-not applicable in the U.S. because it was too culture-bound (French)






15. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility






16. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome






17. 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






18. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation






19. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.






20. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall






21. Neurotransmitter that affects sleep - arousal - mood - appetite; lack of it is linked with depression






22. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.






23. Developed one of the first projective tests - the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story - the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary






24. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh






25. The procedure of withholding the unconditioned stimulus and presenting the conditioned stimulus alone - which gradually reduces the probability of the conditioned response






26. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life






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






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






29. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)






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






31. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward






32. Devised theory of multiple intelligences: logical-mathematic - spatial - bodily-kinesthetic - intrapersonal - linguistic - musical - interpersonal - naturalistic






33. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.






34. The expression of genes






35. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants






36. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






37. 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.






38. Conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives






39. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.






40. 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






41. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.






42. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.






43. Establish the relationship between two variables






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






45. A donut ring-shaped of loosely connected structures located in the forebrain between the central core and cerebral hemispheres; consists of: septum - cingulate gyrus - endowments - hypothalamus - and to campus - and amygdala; associated with emotions






46. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population






47. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment






48. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste






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






50. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality