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AP Psychology

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1. The cessation of the ability to reproduce






2. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes






3. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus






4. The evaluation of the significance of a situation or event as it relates to a person's well-being






5. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations






6. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions






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






8. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.






9. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic value for an organism but that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer






10. 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






11. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.






12. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.






13. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants






14. The human need to fulfill one's potential






15. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned






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






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






18. In Adler's theory - a feeling of openness with all humanity.






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






20. 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






21. Largest - most complicated - and most advanced of the three divisions of the brain; comprises the thalamus - hypothalamus - limbic system - basal ganglia - corpus callosum - and cortex






22. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation






23. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never






24. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways






25. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits






26. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.






27. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.






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






29. Tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard - the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged






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






31. Response to the belief that the IV will have an effect - rather than the IV's actual effect - which can be a confounding variable






32. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness






33. Primary area for processing visual information






34. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent






35. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)






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






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






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






39. The period of extending from the onset of puberty to early adulthood






40. 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






41. 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.






42. A descriptive statistic that measures the variability of data from the mean of the sample






43. The principle that those characteristics and behaviors that help organisms adapt - be fit - and survive will be passed on to successive generations - because flexible - fit individuals have a greater chance of reproduction






44. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.






45. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed






46. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain






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






48. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred






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






50. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings