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AP Psychology

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1. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion






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






3. 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.






4. Visual theory - proposed by Herring - that color is coded by stimulation of three types of paired receptors; each pair of receptors is assumed to operate in an antagonist way so that stimulation by a given wavelength produces excitation (increased fi






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






6. 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.






7. Experience of the difference threshold






8. The time in to development of an organism when it is especially sensitive to certain environmental influences; outside of that period the same influences will have far less effect






9. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.






10. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi






11. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time






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






13. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information






14. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results






15. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.






16. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses






17. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight






18. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.






19. Organ lying between the stomach and small intestine; regulates blood sugar by secreting to regulating hormones insulin and glucagon






20. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)






21. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.






22. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory






23. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants






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






25. Morality based on one's own individual moral principles (i.e. - conscience)






26. Does research on how people function best with machines






27. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.






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






29. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence






30. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems






31. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision






32. Ends of axons that secrete neurotransmitters






33. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.






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






35. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties






36. Synaptic gap or synaptic space; tiny gap between the terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron (almost never touch); location of the transfer of an impulse from one neuron to the next






37. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior






38. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'






39. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.






40. A basic unit of meaning in a language.






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






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






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






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






45. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience






46. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact






47. First menstrual period






48. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area






49. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy






50. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics