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AP Psychology

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1. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.






2. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development






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






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






5. First menstrual period






6. 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






7. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth






8. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.






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






10. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.






11. 17th century English philosopher. Wrote that the mind was a 'blank slate' or 'tabula rasa'; that is - people are born without innate ideas. We are completely shaped by our environment .






12. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works






13. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life






14. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.






15. Primary area for processing visual information






16. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.






17. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory






18. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they believe they are so special and unique that other people cannot understand them and risky behaviors will not harm them






19. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.






20. Rules of proper and acceptable conduct that investigators use to guide psychological research






21. Memory for specific information






22. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology






23. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior






24. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.






25. Depth cues that are based on one eye






26. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.






27. The suppression of one bit of information by another






28. Pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning) - stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls - children mimicked play






29. Perception below the threshold of awareness.






30. 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).






31. 'Wernicke's area'; discovered area of left temporal lobe that involved language understanding: person damaged in this area uses correct words but they do not make sense






32. Released by thyroid; hormone that regulates the body's metabolism; OVERACTIVE-over-excitability - insomnia - reduced attention span - fatigue - snap decisions - reduced concentration (hyperthyroidism); UNDERACTIVE-desire to sleep - constantly tired -






33. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event






34. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made






35. The increase in sensitivity to light that occurs when the illumination level changes from high to low - causing chemicals in the rods and cones to regenerate and return to their inactive state.






36. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.






37. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area






38. 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






39. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation






40. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction






41. Automatic behavior that occurs involuntarily in response to a stimulus and without prior learning and usually shows little variability from instance to instance






42. A state of consciousness that occurs during sleep - usually accompanied by vivid visual - tactile - or auditory imagery.






43. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'






44. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane






45. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.






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






47. The brain and spinal cord






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






49. A number that expresses the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables - ranging from -1 to +1






50. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond