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AP Psychology

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






2. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.






3. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear






4. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.






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






6. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism






7. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it






8. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)






9. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions






10. In an experiment - the group of participants to whom a treatment is given






11. A state of consciousness that occurs during sleep - usually accompanied by vivid visual - tactile - or auditory imagery.






12. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field






13. 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






14. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable






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






16. The prenatal organism from the 5th through the 49th day after conception






17. Sense of smell






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






19. A need or want that causes someone to act






20. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period






21. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm






22. Ability of the visual perceptual system to recognize that an object remains constant in size regardless of its distance from the observer or the size of its image on the retina.






23. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met






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






25. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'






26. The law that the neuron either fires at 100% or not at all






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






28. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization






29. Behaviorism/learning; pioneer in systematic desensitization - maintained that fear could be unlearned






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






31. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants






32. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur






33. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made






34. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing






35. Personality assessment; created the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) with Christina Morgan - stated that the need to achieve varied in strength in different people and influenced their tendency to approach and evaluate their own performances






36. Following a strong emotion - an opposing emotion counters the first emotion - lessening the experience of that emotion; on repeated occasions - the opposing emotion becomes stronger






37. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.






38. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior






39. 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






40. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.






41. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.






42. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth






43. Growth in the ability to tell right from wrong - control impulses - and act ethically






44. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes






45. Social psychology; Stanford Prison Study; college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners or guards in a study that looked at who social situations influence behavior; showed that peoples' behavior depends to a large extent on the roles






46. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.






47. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement






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






49. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people






50. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning