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AP Psychology

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1. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion






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






3. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.






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






5. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions






6. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.






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






8. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.






9. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them






10. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.






11. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp






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






13. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction






14. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent






15. An individual's genetic make-up






16. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes






17. The human need to fulfill one's potential






18. Studies psychological development across the lifespan






19. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress






20. Emotional intelligence






21. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth






22. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.






23. 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.






24. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.






25. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience






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






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






28. Anxiety disorder characterized by marked fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing






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






30. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways






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






32. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place






33. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality






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






35. Constructed by Lewis Terman - originally used ratio IQ (MA/CA x 100); now based on deviation from mean






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






37. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response






38. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance






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






40. 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






41. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.






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






43. An insight therapy - developed be Carl Rogers - that seeks to help people evaluate the world and themselves from their own perspective by providing them with a nondirective environment and unconditional positive regard; also known as person-centered






44. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.






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






46. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior






47. The study of the lifelong - often age-related - processes of change in the physical - cognitive - moral - emotional - and social domains of functioning; such changes are rooted in biological mechanisms that are genetically controlled - as well as in






48. The inability to perceive different hues.






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






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