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AP Psychology

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1. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes






2. Intelligence; found that specific mental talents were highly correlated - concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled 'g' (general ability)






3. The level of consciousness devoted to processes completely unavailable to conscious awareness (e.g. - fingernails growing)






4. Memory; studied memorization of meaningless words






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






6. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.






7. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings






8. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal






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






10. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions






11. The prenatal organism from the 5th through the 49th day after conception






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






13. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one






14. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender






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






16. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves






17. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics






18. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance






19. Transparent covering of the eye






20. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.






21. 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






22. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.






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






24. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students






25. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.






26. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law






27. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep






28. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval






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






30. Freud's first stage of personality development - from birth to about age 2 - during which the instincts of infants are focused on the mouth as the primary pleasure center.






31. 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.






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






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






34. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior






35. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior






36. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions






37. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.






38. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill






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






40. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.






41. A process through which people receive information about the status of a physical system and use this feedback information to learn to control the activity of that system






42. The extent to which scores differ from one another






43. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)






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






45. Devised theory of multiple intelligences: logical-mathematic - spatial - bodily-kinesthetic - intrapersonal - linguistic - musical - interpersonal - naturalistic






46. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.






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






48. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.






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






50. The suppression of one bit of information by another