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AP Psychology

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1. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world






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






3. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients






4. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children






5. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher






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






7. The study of the psychological and medical aspects of death and dying






8. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body






9. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.






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






11. Theory that holds that an observer's perception depends not only on the intensity of a stimulus but also on the observer's motivation - the criteria he or she sets for determining that a signal is present - and on the background noise.






12. Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of - and desire to avoid - situations in which the person might be exposed to scrutiny by others and might behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way.






13. When a neuron is in polarization; more negative ions are inside the neuron cell membrane with a positive ions on the outside - causing a small electrical charge; release of this charge generates a neuron's impulse (signal/message)






14. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them






15. 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






16. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time






17. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes






18. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing






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






20. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success






21. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.






22. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates






23. 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






24. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea






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






26. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons






27. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.






28. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life






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






30. The highness or lowness of a sound






31. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve






32. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness






33. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.






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






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






36. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships






37. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures






38. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.






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






40. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation






41. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.






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






43. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.






44. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females






45. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth






46. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose






47. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech

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






49. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters






50. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response