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AP Psychology

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1. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.






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






3. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events






4. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it






5. 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'






6. The highness or lowness of a sound






7. The suppression of one bit of information by another






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






9. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research






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






11. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories






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






13. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age






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






15. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'






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






17. 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.






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






19. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.






20. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions






21. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.






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






23. The general state of being aware of and responsive to events in the environment - as well as one's own mental processes






24. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement






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






26. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next






27. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli






28. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory






29. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill






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






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






32. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.






33. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed






34. 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






35. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.






36. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning






37. A basic unit of meaning in a language.






38. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)






39. 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.






40. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking






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






42. Netlike system of neurons that weaves through limbic system and plays an important role in attention - arousal - and alert functions; arouses and alerts higher parts of the brain; anesthetics work by temporary shutting off RF system






43. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities






44. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment






45. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent






46. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance






47. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.






48. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities






49. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable






50. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.