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AP Psychology

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1. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services






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






3. Any chemical substance that - in small amounts - alters biological or cognitive processes or both






4. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature






5. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about






6. Following a strong emotion - an opposing emotion counters the first emotion - lessening the experience of that emotion; on repeated occasions - the opposing emotion becomes stronger






7. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.






8. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals






9. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically






10. 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.






11. A state of mental discomfort arising from a discrepancy between two or more of a person's beliefs or between a person's beliefs and overt behavior.






12. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place






13. 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






14. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.






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






16. The process by which individuals lose their self-awareness and distinctive personality in the context of a group - which may lead them to engage in antinormative behavior.






17. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation






18. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)






19. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration






20. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation






21. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.






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






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






24. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again






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






26. Chemical similar to opiates that relieves pain; may induce feelings of pleasure






27. An individual's genetic make-up






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






29. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision






30. Sense of smell






31. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI






32. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.






33. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants






34. Cognition and memory; studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony






35. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords






36. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8






37. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal






38. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself






39. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids






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






41. A number that expresses the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables - ranging from -1 to +1






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






43. In emerging Theo psychology that focuses on positive experiences; includes subjective well-being - self-determination - the relationship between positive emotions and physical health - and the factors that allow individuals - communities - and societ






44. Behaviorism/learning; pioneer in systematic desensitization - maintained that fear could be unlearned






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






46. 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






47. Inability to understand or use language






48. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience






49. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature






50. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior