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AP Psychology

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1. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion






2. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics






3. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes






4. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.






5. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons






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






7. 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






8. The controversial claim that sensation can occur apart from sensory input






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






10. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.






11. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.






12. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved






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






14. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time






15. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals






16. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.






17. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus






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






19. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)






20. Elements of an experimental situation that might cause a participant to perceive the situation in a certain way or become aware of the purpose of the study and thus bias the participant to behave in a certain way - and in so doing - distort results.






21. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.






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






23. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle






24. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.






25. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically






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






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






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






29. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register






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






31. 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.






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






33. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.






34. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease






35. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held






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






37. 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






38. Sense of taste






39. 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.






40. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.






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






42. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards






43. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands






44. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






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






46. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior






47. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans






48. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.






49. Number of wavelengths that pass a point in a given amount of time; determines hue of light and the pitch of a sound






50. Holds information for processing; fragile; also called short term memory or working memory