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AP Psychology

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1. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.






2. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place






3. Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict






4. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments






5. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment






6. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness






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






8. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits






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






10. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.






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






12. 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






13. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions






14. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals






15. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation






16. Personality assessment; created the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) with Christina Morgan - stated that the need to achieve varied in strength in different people and influenced their tendency to approach and evaluate their own performances






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






18. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons






19. Perspective developed by freud - which assumes that psychological problems are the result of anxiety resulting from unresolved conflicts and forces of which a person might be unaware






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






21. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation






22. A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable behavior.






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






24. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance






25. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information






26. Studies psychological development across the lifespan






27. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits






28. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions






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






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






31. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome






32. A trait or inherited characteristic that has increased in a population because it solved a problem of survival or reproduction






33. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions






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






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






36. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.






37. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made






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






39. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep






40. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi






41. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development






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






43. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event






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






45. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study






46. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints






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






48. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes






49. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus






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







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