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AP Psychology

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






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






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






4. Neurotransmitter that inhibits firing of neurons; linked with Huntington's disease






5. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.






6. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons






7. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.






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






9. A state of consciousness that occurs during sleep - usually accompanied by vivid visual - tactile - or auditory imagery.






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






11. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.






12. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal






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






14. Psychoanalytic technique in which a person is asked to report to the therapist his or her thoughts and feelings as they occur - regardless of how trivial - illogical - or objectionable their content may appear.






15. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ






16. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.






17. Establish the relationship between two variables






18. The biologically based categories of male and female






19. A sample that reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn






20. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.






21. 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






22. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light






23. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.






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






25. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat






26. Organ lying between the stomach and small intestine; regulates blood sugar by secreting to regulating hormones insulin and glucagon






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






28. Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation - they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.






29. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development






30. A need or want that causes someone to act






31. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.






32. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will






33. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands






34. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors






35. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature






36. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese






37. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow






38. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.






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






40. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.






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






42. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory






43. A period after firing when a neuron is returning to its normal polarize state and will only fire again if the incoming message open parentheses impulse) is stronger than usual; returning to arresting state






44. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion






45. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life






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






47. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic value for an organism but that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer






48. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems






49. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve






50. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep