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AP Psychology

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1. Following a strong emotion - an opposing emotion counters the first emotion - lessening the experience of that emotion; on repeated occasions - the opposing emotion becomes stronger






2. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature






3. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body






4. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.






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






6. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain






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






8. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.






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






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






11. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.






12. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched






13. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment






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






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






16. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.






17. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction






18. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus






19. 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.






20. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation






21. The process by which the location of sound is determined






22. The suppression of one bit of information by another






23. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems






24. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory






25. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact






26. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place






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






28. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.






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






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






31. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands






32. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening






33. Sense of taste






34. The time in to development of an organism when it is especially sensitive to certain environmental influences; outside of that period the same influences will have far less effect






35. Perspective developed by freud - which assumes that psychological problems are the result of anxiety resulting from unresolved conflicts and forces of which a person might be unaware






36. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance






37. In an experiment - the group of participants to whom a treatment is given






38. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.






39. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives






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






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






42. An observable action






43. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series






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






45. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data






46. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.






47. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score






48. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches






49. 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.






50. 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'