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AP Psychology

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1. 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.






2. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors






3. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe






4. A person's experiences in the environment






5. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.






6. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.






7. The brain and spinal cord






8. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children






9. A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable behavior.






10. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.






11. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.






12. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.






13. 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






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






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






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






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






18. Graphical record of brain-wave activity obtained through electrodes placed on the scalp and forehead






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






20. The human need to fulfill one's potential






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






22. Psychopathology and Social Psychology; effects of labeling; Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say 'empty - dull and thud.' Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered - acted normally. Never






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






24. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill






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






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






27. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement






28. 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






29. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.






30. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met






31. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions






32. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will






33. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.






34. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior






35. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.






36. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.






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






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






39. 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






40. Process by which a perceptual system analyzes stimuli and converts them into electrical impulses; also known as coding.






41. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior






42. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.






43. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.






44. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life






45. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.






46. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all






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






48. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood






49. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging






50. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum