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AP Psychology

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






2. 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






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






4. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area






5. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned






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






7. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s






8. Moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication






9. Twins from a single fertilized egg (zygote) with the same genetic makeup; also called monozygotic (MZ) twins






10. A branch of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body functions; it calms the body after sympathetic stimulation






11. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image






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






13. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society






14. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole






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






16. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions






17. Synaptic gap or synaptic space; tiny gap between the terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron (almost never touch); location of the transfer of an impulse from one neuron to the next






18. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness






19. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself






20. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed






21. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected






22. 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






23. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.






24. Memory a person is not aware of possessing






25. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body






26. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma






27. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; criticized Freud - stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses - rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts - neurotic trends; concept of 'basic anxiety'






28. Commonly occurring behavior can reinforce a less frequent behavior






29. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene






30. Bundles of axons






31. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data






32. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system






33. 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)






34. Small area of retina where image is focused






35. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients






36. 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






37. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both






38. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception






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






40. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects






41. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.






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






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






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






46. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms






47. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.






48. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed






49. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory






50. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties