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AP Psychology

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1. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.






2. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.






3. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer






4. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons






5. Perception below the threshold of awareness.






6. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits






7. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'






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






9. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning






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






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






12. 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.






13. 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






14. 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.






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






16. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat






17. The spread between the highest and the lowest scores in a distribution






18. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.






19. Constructed by Lewis Terman - originally used ratio IQ (MA/CA x 100); now based on deviation from mean






20. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; criticized Freud - stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses - rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts - neurotic trends; concept of 'basic anxiety'






21. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.






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






23. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp






24. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses






25. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes






26. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat






27. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance






28. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus






29. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children






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






31. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility






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






33. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.






34. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.






35. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion






36. A basic unit of meaning in a language.






37. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes






38. Perspective that seeks to explain and predict behaviors by analyzing how the human brain developed over time - how it functions - and how input from the environment affects human behaviors






39. In Piaget's view - a specific mental structure; an organized way of interacting with the environment and experiencing it- a generalization a child makes based on comparable occurences of various actins - usally physical - motor actions






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






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






42. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score






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






44. 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.






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






46. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain






47. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion






48. Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information - usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.






49. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).






50. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.