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AP Psychology

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1. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically






2. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts






3. The suppression of one bit of information by another






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






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






6. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors






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






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






9. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period






10. The sense of hearing






11. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence






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






13. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways






14. 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






15. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.






16. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.






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






18. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics






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






20. 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).






21. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.






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






23. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.






24. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle






25. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands






26. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval






27. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing






28. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.






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






30. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi






31. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire






32. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time






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






34. The situation that occurs when the drug becomes part of the body's functioning and produces withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued






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






36. 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






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






38. Sharpness of vision






39. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception






40. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.






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






42. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services






43. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.






44. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons






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






46. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.






47. A descriptive statistic that measures the variability of data from the mean of the sample






48. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.






49. First menstrual period






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'