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AP Psychology

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1. Memory a person is not aware of possessing






2. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors






3. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe






4. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur






5. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures






6. 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






7. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.






8. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience






9. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids






10. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data






11. Neurotransmitter that affects sleep - arousal - mood - appetite; lack of it is linked with depression






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






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






14. 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






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






16. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.






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






18. A descriptive research method in which researchers study behavior in its natural context.






19. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.






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






21. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall






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






23. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.






24. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords






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






26. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear






27. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure






28. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)






29. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival






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






31. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.






32. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon






33. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need






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






35. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems






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






37. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.






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






39. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information






40. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure






41. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies






42. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance






43. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness






44. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.






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






46. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe






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






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






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






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