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AP Psychology

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1. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.






2. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher






3. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities






4. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.






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






6. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort






7. Focuses on psychological factors in illness






8. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.






9. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes






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






11. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood






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






13. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad






14. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body






15. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions






16. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform






17. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon






18. 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.






19. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.






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






25. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell






26. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life






27. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.






28. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese






29. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.






30. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes






31. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.






32. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.






33. 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






34. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons






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






36. A person's sense of being male or female






37. Bundles of axons






38. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ on an important dimension






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






40. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved






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






42. Transparent covering of the eye






43. 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






44. The biochemical processes that make it easier for the neuron to respond again when it has been stimulated






45. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.






46. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine






47. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression






48. The process by which the location of sound is determined






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






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