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AP Psychology

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1. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory






2. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.






3. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance






4. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age






5. 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






6. General set of procedures used to summarize - condense - and describe sets of data






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






8. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life






9. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed






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






11. A basic unit of meaning in a language.






12. Pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning) - stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls - children mimicked play






13. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes






14. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic value for an organism but that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer






15. Social psychology; research evidence of internalized racism caused by stigmatization; doll experiments-black children chose white dolls






16. Inability to understand or use language






17. Colored part of the eye that regulates size of pupil






18. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score






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






20. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual






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






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






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






24. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.






25. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'






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






27. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI






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






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






30. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it






31. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system






32. 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.






33. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves






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






35. Elements of an experimental situation that might cause a participant to perceive the situation in a certain way or become aware of the purpose of the study and thus bias the participant to behave in a certain way - and in so doing - distort results.






36. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond






37. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.






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






39. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences

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40. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters






41. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease






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






43. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement






44. Small area of retina where image is focused






45. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits






46. Did work on short-term memory






47. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.






48. Carries impulses from the eye to the brain






49. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.






50. A descriptive statistic that measures the variability of data from the mean of the sample