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AP Psychology

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






2. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.






3. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual






4. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions






5. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls






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






7. 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.






8. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream






9. Holds information for processing; fragile; also called short term memory or working memory






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






11. A person's sense of being male or female






12. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved






13. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis






14. A need or want that causes someone to act






15. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population






16. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality






17. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality






18. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.






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






20. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior






21. 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






22. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions






23. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time






24. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.






25. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.






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






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






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






29. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically






30. Memory for specific information






31. Developed one of the first projective tests - the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story - the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary






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






33. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)






34. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues






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






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






37. Transparent covering of the eye






38. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement






39. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma






40. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones






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. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.






43. Studies psychological development across the lifespan






44. The brain and spinal cord






45. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)






46. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism






47. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging






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






49. Occurs when recall is better for a distinctive item - even if it occurs in the middle of a list






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