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AP Psychology

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1. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary






2. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.






3. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.






4. An environmental stimulus that affects an organism in physically or psychologically injurious ways - usually producing anxiety - tension - and physiological arousal






5. Memory for specific information






6. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information






7. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex






8. 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.






9. The expression of genes






10. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.






11. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve






12. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism






13. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.






14. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data






15. The study of the lifelong - often age-related - processes of change in the physical - cognitive - moral - emotional - and social domains of functioning; such changes are rooted in biological mechanisms that are genetically controlled - as well as in






16. Brain surgery used in the past to alleviate symptoms of serious mental disorders.






17. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'






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






19. Motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings






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






21. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.






22. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion






23. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.






24. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.






25. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism






26. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.






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






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






29. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth






30. 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






31. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.






32. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia

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






34. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.






35. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning






36. According to Piaget - the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences






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






38. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience






39. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives






40. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.






41. 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






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






43. Visual theory - proposed by Herring - that color is coded by stimulation of three types of paired receptors; each pair of receptors is assumed to operate in an antagonist way so that stimulation by a given wavelength produces excitation (increased fi






44. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses






45. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics






46. Process by which an organism selects and interprets sensory input so that it acquires meaning.






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






48. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant






49. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval






50. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.