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AP Psychology

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






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






3. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond






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






5. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically






6. The tendency of people in a group to seek concurrence with one another when reaching a decision - rather than effectively evaluating options.






7. Organizing sensory information so it can be processed by the nervous system






8. An environmental stimulus that affects an organism in physically or psychologically injurious ways - usually producing anxiety - tension - and physiological arousal






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






10. 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






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






12. Structure behind pupil that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina






13. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law






14. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands






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






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






17. Sense of smell






18. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.






19. Process in which the sense organs' receptor cells are stimulated and relay initial information to higher brain centers for further processing.






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






21. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -






22. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches






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






24. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe






25. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.






26. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services






27. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics






28. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.






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






30. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment






31. Memory a person is not aware of possessing






32. Biologist; developed theory of evolution; transmutation of species - natural selection - evolution by common descent; 'The Origin of Species' catalogs his voyage on The Beagle






33. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.






34. Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of - and desire to avoid - situations in which the person might be exposed to scrutiny by others and might behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way.






35. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance






36. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning






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






38. Procedure for solving a problem by implementing a set of rules over and over again until the solution is found.






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






40. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior






41. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation






42. 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






43. Learning; systematic desensitization






44. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area






45. Neutral stimulus that - through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus - begins to elicit a conditioned response






46. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.






47. Largest - most complicated - and most advanced of the three divisions of the brain; comprises the thalamus - hypothalamus - limbic system - basal ganglia - corpus callosum - and cortex






48. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory






49. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning






50. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory