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AP Psychology

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1. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior






2. The view that knowledge should be acquired through observation and often an experiment






3. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict






4. Did work on short-term memory






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






6. A person's sense of being male or female






7. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve






8. Maintenance of a constant state of inner stability or balance






9. 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






10. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human






11. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data






12. Subfield concerned with the use of psychological ideas and principles to enhance health - prevent illness - diagnose and treat disease - and improve rehabilitation






13. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression






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






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






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






17. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer






18. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship






19. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait






20. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met






21. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.






22. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth






23. Emotional intelligence






24. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic






25. 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'






26. Small area of retina where image is focused






27. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)






28. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream






29. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.






30. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.






31. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message






32. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.






33. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.






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






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






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






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






38. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia

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39. Depth cues that are based on two eyes






40. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching






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






42. 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






43. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.






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






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






46. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant






47. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement






48. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.






49. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative






50. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred