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AP Psychology

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1. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.






2. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.






3. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development






4. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior






5. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.






6. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.






7. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative






8. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma






9. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population






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






11. Developed one of the first projective tests - the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story - the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary






12. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons






13. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.






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






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






16. Experience of the difference threshold






17. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society






18. Pioneer in intelligence (IQ) tests - designed a test to identify slow learners in need of help-not applicable in the U.S. because it was too culture-bound (French)






19. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making






20. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world






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






22. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur






23. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts






24. Process by which a conditioned response becomes associated with a stimulus that is similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus






25. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain






26. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening






27. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories






28. 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






29. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').






30. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior






31. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender






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






33. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.






34. The expression of genes






35. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.






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






37. Intelligence; found that specific mental talents were highly correlated - concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled 'g' (general ability)






38. Learning; systematic desensitization






39. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies






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






41. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message






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






43. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream






44. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function






45. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.






46. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior






47. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.






48. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.






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






50. Afferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cords