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AP Psychology

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1. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.






2. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand






3. Studies psychological development across the lifespan






4. Child psychoanalysis; emphasized importance of the ego and its constant struggle






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






6. 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






7. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system






8. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.






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






10. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)






11. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole






12. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students






13. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence






14. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.






15. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.






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






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






18. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses






19. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in






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






21. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation






22. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms






23. Process by which a neutral stimulus takes on conditioned properties through pairing with a conditioned stimulus






24. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)






25. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin






26. Bundles of axons






27. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech

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28. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)






29. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones






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






31. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.






32. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters






33. 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.






34. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language






35. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response






36. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched






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






38. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles






39. Memory a person is not aware of possessing






40. Experience of the difference threshold






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






42. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age






43. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place






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






45. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness






46. 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






47. A person's sense of being male or female






48. Threadlike structure within the nucleus of cells that contain genes






49. Retrieval cues that match original information work better






50. Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation - they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.