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AP Psychology

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1. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.






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






3. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.






4. Emotional intelligence






5. 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






6. The study of the lifelong - often age-related - processes of change in the physical - cognitive - moral - emotional - and social domains of functioning; such changes are rooted in biological mechanisms that are genetically controlled - as well as in






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






8. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood






9. A test designed to predict a person's future performance






10. Shift in electrical charge in a tiny area of the neuron (temporary); transmits a long cell membranes leaving neuron and polarized state; needs higher than normal threshold of excitation to fire






11. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score






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






13. The arithmetic average of a set of scores






14. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary






15. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary






16. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility






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






18. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.






19. Morality based on consequences to self






20. Memory for specific information






21. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.






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






23. Primary area for processing visual information






24. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat






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






26. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence






27. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched






28. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine






29. The suppression of one bit of information by another






30. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'






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






32. An observable action






33. Noradrenaline; chemical which is excitatory - similar to adrenaline - and affects arousal and memory; raises blood pressure by causing blood vessels to become constricted - but also carried by bloodstream to the anterior pituitary which relaxes ACTH






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






35. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia

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36. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight






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






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






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






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






41. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.






42. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior






43. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.






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






45. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area






46. 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.






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






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






49. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy






50. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes