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AP Psychology

Subjects : psychology, ap
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1. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information






2. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.






3. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences

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4. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.






5. Bundles of axons






6. Did work on short-term memory






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






8. Theorist who both aided in the development of the trichromatic theory of color perception and Place theory of pitch perception.






9. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state






10. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.






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






12. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher






13. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.






14. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur






15. A test score that has not been transformed or converted in any way






16. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.






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






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






19. The behavior of giving up or not responding to punishment - exhibited by people or animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they have no control






20. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow






21. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory






22. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory






23. The cessation of the ability to reproduce






24. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.






25. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.






26. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics






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






28. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.






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






30. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait






31. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think






32. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe






33. An individual who takes part in an experiment and whose behavior is observed as part of the data collection process






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






35. 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.






36. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes






37. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.






38. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable






39. 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)






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






41. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing






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






43. The arithmetic average of a set of scores






44. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes






45. The tendency of people in a group to seek concurrence with one another when reaching a decision - rather than effectively evaluating options.






46. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes






47. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness






48. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time






49. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.






50. Primary area for processing visual information