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AP Psychology

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






2. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter






3. A basic unit of meaning in a language.






4. One who uses psychoanalysis to treat psychological problems






5. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ






6. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups






7. Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging






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






9. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.






10. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory






11. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe






12. Depth cues that are based on two eyes






13. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; criticized Freud - stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses - rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts - neurotic trends; concept of 'basic anxiety'






14. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill






15. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues






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






17. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit






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






19. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning






20. Memory a person is not aware of possessing






21. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.






22. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction






23. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons






24. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.






25. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one






26. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions






27. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected






28. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.






29. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants






30. A group of psychological disorders characterized by a lack of reality testing and by deterioration of social and intellectual functioning and personality beginning before age 45 and lasting at least 6 months






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






32. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)






33. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher






34. In Adler's theory - a feeling of openness with all humanity.






35. 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'






36. An individual who takes part in an experiment and whose behavior is observed as part of the data collection process






37. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform






38. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes






39. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent






40. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study






41. Decrease in likelihood that an intrinsically motivated task - after having been extrinsically rewarded - will be performed when the reward is no longer given.






42. 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.






43. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results






44. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place






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






46. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval






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






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






49. The view that knowledge should be acquired through observation and often an experiment






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