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AP Psychology

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






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






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






4. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors






5. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality






6. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function






7. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles






8. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.






9. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society






10. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results






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






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






13. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent






14. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment






15. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.






16. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement






17. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing






18. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood






19. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think






20. The entire spectrum of waves initiated by the movement of charged particles.






21. Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information - usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.






22. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons






23. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.






24. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body






25. Sense of smell






26. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross






27. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.






28. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be






29. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur






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






31. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.






32. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial






33. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about






34. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion






35. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants






36. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)






37. 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






38. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time






39. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.






40. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)






41. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints






42. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes






43. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time






44. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another






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






46. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study






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






48. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after predetermined but varying amounts of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once after each interval






49. 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






50. 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