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AP Psychology

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1. 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






2. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards






3. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research






4. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion






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






6. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.






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






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






9. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment






10. In Roger's theory of personality - the perception an individual has of himself or herself and of his or her relationships to other people and to various aspects of life.






11. 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






12. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age






13. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions






14. Sharpness of vision






15. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all






16. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series






17. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain






18. 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






19. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.






20. Netlike system of neurons that weaves through limbic system and plays an important role in attention - arousal - and alert functions; arouses and alerts higher parts of the brain; anesthetics work by temporary shutting off RF system






21. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.






22. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.






23. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal






24. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes






25. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. Shift in electrical charge in a tiny area of the neuron (temporary); transmits a long cell membranes leaving neuron and polarized state; needs higher than normal threshold of excitation to fire






31. Creates a computerized image using a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves






32. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort






33. An individual who takes part in an experiment and whose behavior is observed as part of the data collection process






34. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall






35. In Adler's theory - a feeling of openness with all humanity.






36. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.






37. Sets of strategies - rather than strict rules - that act as guidelines for discovery-oriented problem solving.






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






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






40. 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






41. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.






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






43. The inability to perceive different hues.






44. The cessation of the ability to reproduce






45. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.






46. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time






47. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina






48. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior






49. 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)






50. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems







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