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AP Psychology

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1. A therapy that is based on the application of learning principles to human behavior and that focuses on changing overt behaviors rather than on understanding subjective feelings - unconscious processes - or motivations; also known as behavior modific






2. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.






3. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time






4. 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.






5. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory






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






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






8. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking






9. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'






10. The highness or lowness of a sound






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






12. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons






13. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area






14. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology






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






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






17. A person's experiences in the environment






18. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'






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






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

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21. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event






22. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment






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






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






25. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes






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






27. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse






28. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization






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






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






31. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior






32. Memory a person is not aware of possessing






33. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.






34. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall






35. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable






36. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures






37. Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.






38. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.






39. 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






40. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.






41. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time






42. 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






43. 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






44. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles






45. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment






46. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward






47. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation






48. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature






49. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)






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