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AP Psychology

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1. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.






2. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks






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






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






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






6. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.






7. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score






8. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits






9. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.






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






11. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature






12. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred






13. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.






14. Eating disorder characterized by pattern 9of eating binges followed by purging (e.g. - vomiting - laxatives - exercise)






15. Memory a person is not aware of possessing






16. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech

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17. Automatic behavior that occurs involuntarily in response to a stimulus and without prior learning and usually shows little variability from instance to instance






18. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.






19. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences

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20. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain






21. Memory for specific information






22. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data






23. 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






24. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.






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






26. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.






27. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think






28. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.






29. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement






30. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones






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






32. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment






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






34. Humanistic psychology; Contributions: founded client-centered therapy - theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth - unconditional positive regard -






35. Depth cues that are based on two eyes






36. 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






37. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.






38. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility






39. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.






40. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body






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






42. Body sense of equilibrium and balance






43. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.






44. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies






45. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable






46. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function






47. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.






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






49. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior






50. In Roger's theory of personality - the perception an individual has of himself or herself and of his or her relationships to other people and to various aspects of life.