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AP Psychology

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






2. A group of psychological disorders characterized by a lack of reality testing and by deterioration of social and intellectual functioning and personality beginning before age 45 and lasting at least 6 months






3. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.






4. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period






5. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics






6. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life






7. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.






8. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.






9. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.






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






11. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -






12. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility






13. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






14. In Roger's theory of personality - the perception an individual has of himself or herself and of his or her relationships to other people and to various aspects of life.






15. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning






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






17. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.






18. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it






19. The cessation of the ability to reproduce






20. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory






21. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score






22. Threadlike structure within the nucleus of cells that contain genes






23. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people






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






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






26. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood






27. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.






28. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.






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






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






31. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.






32. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment






33. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving






34. 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






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






36. Ability of the visual perceptual system to recognize that an object remains constant in size regardless of its distance from the observer or the size of its image on the retina.






37. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing






38. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life






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






40. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.






41. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands






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






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






44. 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






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






46. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another






47. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.






48. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period






49. 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)






50. Memory for specific information






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