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AP Psychology

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






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






3. An individual's genetic make-up






4. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores






5. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.






6. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings






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






8. Intelligence and learning - self-fulfilling prophecy; Study Basics: Researchers misled teachers into believing that certain students had higher IQs. Teachers changed own behaviors and effectively raised the IQ of the randomly chosen students






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






10. Moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication






11. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another






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






13. Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings






14. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information






15. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility






16. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics






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






18. General category of mood disorders in which people show extreme and persistent sadness - despair - and loss of interest in life's usual activities.






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






20. Loss of information from memory as a result of disuse and the passage of time






21. A process through which people receive information about the status of a physical system and use this feedback information to learn to control the activity of that system






22. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place






23. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior






24. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.






25. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.






26. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.






27. The sense of hearing






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






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






30. Visual theory - stated by Young and Helmholtz that all colors can be made by mixing the three basic colors: red - green - and blue; a.k.a the Young-Helmholtz theory.






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






32. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed






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






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






35. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world






36. The evaluation of the significance of a situation or event as it relates to a person's well-being






37. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.






38. Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information - usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.






39. 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






40. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher






41. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur






42. Perspective developed by freud - which assumes that psychological problems are the result of anxiety resulting from unresolved conflicts and forces of which a person might be unaware






43. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter






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






45. 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






46. A basic unit of meaning in a language.






47. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands






48. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.






49. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior






50. 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.