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AP Psychology

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1. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.






2. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities






3. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them






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






5. Sense of smell






6. 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.






7. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.






8. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.






9. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.






10. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.






11. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory






12. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction






13. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.






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






15. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.






16. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be






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






18. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking






19. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait






20. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s






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






22. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial






23. Conditioning in which an increase or decrease in the probability that a behavior will recur is affected by the delivery of reinforcement or punishment as a consequence of the behavior;






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






25. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.






26. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic






27. The bodies 'slow' chemical communication by secreting hormones directly into the bloodstream






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






29. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.






30. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)






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






32. A number that expresses the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables - ranging from -1 to +1






33. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.






34. A person's experiences in the environment






35. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world






36. Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals.






37. 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






38. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility






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






40. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response






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






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






43. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship






44. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes






45. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically






46. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons






47. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients






48. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma






49. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites






50. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory