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AP Psychology

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1. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.






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






3. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).






4. Sense of taste






5. Biologist; developed theory of evolution; transmutation of species - natural selection - evolution by common descent; 'The Origin of Species' catalogs his voyage on The Beagle






6. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)






7. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.






8. Did work on short-term memory






9. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait






10. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.






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






12. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.






13. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society






14. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.






15. Portion of the CNS that carries messages to the PNS; connects brain to the rest of the body






16. Part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories






17. Motivation; believed that gastric activity as in empty stomach - was the sole basis for hunger; did research that inserted balloons in stomachs






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






19. Top of the spinal column






20. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events






21. Neurotransmitter that causes contraction of skeletal muscles; lack of Ach linked with Alzheimer's disease;






22. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent






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






24. 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






25. Emotional intelligence






26. A trait or inherited characteristic that has increased in a population because it solved a problem of survival or reproduction






27. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter






28. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender






29. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'






30. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed






31. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.






32. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.






33. 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






34. The extent to which scores differ from one another






35. Cell that sends messages to brain or spinal cord from other parts of the body; also called sensory neurons






36. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics






37. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience






38. 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






39. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; Contributions: inferiority complex - organ inferiority; Studies: birth order influences personality






40. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages






41. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur






42. In emerging Theo psychology that focuses on positive experiences; includes subjective well-being - self-determination - the relationship between positive emotions and physical health - and the factors that allow individuals - communities - and societ






43. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development






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






45. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand






46. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole






47. 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






48. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior






49. Depth cues that are based on two eyes






50. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.